Tag: blackandwhite

Our Desire To Believe in A Metaphor was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Kinzie St Bridge aka Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge

Located just north of the Loop, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge is an early example of an overhead counterweight bascule bridge based on the patents of Joseph Baermann Strauss. Strauss was a prominent engineer who later achieved fame as the designer of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge was reported to be the world’s longest and heaviest bridge of its type at the time of its completion. The single-leaf bridge is made from heavily-bolted steel girders and plates whose superstructure consists of a fixed tower and an overhead counterweight comprised of concrete, reinforced with a steel skeleton. The leaf’s axis of rotation, the main trunnion, is located about halfway up the tower and power is provided by a pinion which engages a rack on the operating strut to raise and lower the leaf. Today, the bridge is no longer in service, due to the rerouting of passenger traffic and dwindling freight traffic. It is locked in a raised position creating a massive steel silhouette familiar to residents of the Near North side and commuters on Brown Line and Metra trains.

via
http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=13091&counter=52

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/Q2acgn

I took Our Desire To Believe in A Metaphor on April 25, 2014 at 01:22PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 15, 2017 at 12:27PM

Born Already Ruined was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Cruising on Highway 41 (aka LSD)

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/Nhb2Ed

I took Born Already Ruined on September 25, 2016 at 11:34AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on November 23, 2016 at 09:22AM

Spoke Together All In A Rush was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Lake Michigan somewhere

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/LZ1yHL

I took Spoke Together All In A Rush on March 29, 2013 at 06:12AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 06, 2016 at 10:13AM

Overlooked In Haste was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/LjQo1w

I took Overlooked In Haste on July 23, 2016 at 06:18AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 16, 2016 at 10:00AM

Things Go Back and Forth was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Metra train, Ogden Avenue

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/L4fZHs

I took Things Go Back and Forth on May 21, 2013 at 11:58AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 24, 2016 at 11:38AM

M. Hohner Special 20 – Key of C was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Harmonicas are extremely easy and hard to learn.

I had one for many years, but it got sat on and squished one drunken night (might even have been me, but probably not). I never got around to replacing it until today.

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/KTri6o

I took M. Hohner Special 20 – Key of C on August 19, 2016 at 07:03AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 19, 2016 at 01:28PM

Free Soap was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

35mm, scanned from a print (sadly). I’d guess taken in 1997, but I could be off by a few years either way.

Broadway, Chicago

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/LbRWh3

I took Free Soap on December 31, 1996 at 06:00PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 16, 2016 at 09:02PM

Evening Full of Cold Facts and Warm Grins was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Rainy summer night

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/GeNaVz

I took Evening Full of Cold Facts and Warm Grins on April 17, 2013 at 03:04PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 14, 2016 at 03:54PM

El Ray – Giant Olmec Head was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin

In November 2008, LLILAS celebrated the arrival of a special work of art on campus. The Universidad Veracruzana, one of Mexico’s most prominent universities, presented the institute with a colossal Olmec head, a replica of the iconic sculpture known as San Lorenzo Monument 1, or El Rey.

The original, now housed in the Museo de Antropología in Xalapa, Veracruz, is considered a signature piece of pre-Columbian Olmec culture and a world-class art object that represents New World civilization as emblematically as the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán or the ruins of Machu Picchu. One of seventeen colossal heads still in existence, San Lorenzo Monument 1 was found by noted archaeologist Matthew Stirling in the 1940s. His discoveries, and those of other archaeologists in Mexico during this time, unearthed for the world the culture of the Olmec, an ancient civilization that flourished in southern Mexico 1500-400 BCE and significantly influenced later cultures such as the Maya and Aztec.

The replica that now sits at the entry to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection is made of solid stone and weighs 36,000 pounds. It was sculpted by Ignacio Pérez Solano, a Xalapa-based artist, who has spent his career exploring the history of the Gulf Coast and Mesoamerica. Pérez Solano meticulously reproduced San Lorenzo Monument 1 inch by inch, recreating the powerful lines and imposing features of the original work.

Pérez Solano began creating replicas of Olmec heads under the initiative of Miguel Alemán Velasco, who as governor of Veracruz from 1998 to 2004 endeavored to make Olmec culture better known beyond the borders of Mexico. Reproductions of other colossal heads can be found at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Field Museum in Chicago, among other locations. Miguel Alemán Velasco was present for the dedication ceremony at LLILAS on November 19, 2008, which also featured remarks by UT President William Powers and his counterpart, Raul Arias Lovillo of the Universidad Veracruzana. Fidel Herrera Beltrán, current Governor of Veracruz, also spoke, as did Olmec scholars from the U.S. and Mexico.
more
http://ift.tt/1WmBbw1

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/FfbPs2

I took El Ray – Giant Olmec Head on July 20, 2014 at 08:41AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 10, 2016 at 10:25PM

Others Will Go On was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Halsted and Chicago Ave. Faux-infrared effect via Photoshop

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/FYm4vS

I took Others Will Go On on April 25, 2014 at 12:48PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 09, 2016 at 10:40AM

Will You Leave For A Thousand Years? was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Civic Opera building, West Loop, Chicago

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/G5aHmb

I took Will You Leave For A Thousand Years? on April 23, 2014 at 09:45AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 09, 2016 at 10:05AM

As Though Nothing Was Wrong was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

balcony, Lincoln Park somewhere near (or in) Terra Cotta Row.


Founded in Chicago in 1878 by a group of investors including John R. True, this company became a major producer of terra cotta trimmings used by the construction industry. By the early 1890s, when Northwestern Terra Cotta employed approximately 500 men, annual sales approached $600,000. By 1910, its large plant at Clybourn and Wrightwood Avenues had about 1,000 workers. The popularity of placing terra cotta moldings on building facades peaked in the 1920s, and Northwestern Terra Cotta led the way, in Chicago and around the country. Around this time, the company opened plants in St. Louis and Denver. Beginning with Louis Sullivan earlier in the century, prominent Chicago architects like Frank Lloyd Wright had extensive contracts with the company. Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied extensive decorative moldings were the Civic Opera House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph Tower. Northwestern’s operations in Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during Great Depression and never returned to their 1920s levels. In 1965, Northwestern Terra Cotta Co.’s only remaining plant, in Denver, closed.

via
http://ift.tt/1V3q8YM

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/F37XZx

I took As Though Nothing Was Wrong on April 19, 2014 at 07:38AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 03, 2016 at 11:04PM

Thought It Wouldn’t Matter was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

fountain, Peggy Notebaert Museum, Chicago

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/Eixp1T

I took Thought It Wouldn’t Matter on February 20, 2016 at 09:55AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 24, 2016 at 06:27AM

You Wanted To Disappear was uploaded to Flickr

eggplant0 comment

Foggy afternoon, Chicago

(The sculpture is called Progress Lighting the Way for Commerce)

embiggen by clicking
http://flic.kr/p/E79yTw

I took You Wanted To Disappear on September 12, 2009 at 05:14AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 19, 2016 at 09:27AM