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Bob Thall
Chicago, 2024
Archival pigment print
22 x 27 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $3,500
Starting bid: $2,250
Buy it now: $4,275
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Bob Thall (American, b.1948)
Since 1973, Bob Thall’s primary photographic subject has been Chicago’s urban landscape. His photographs over the last fifty years show aspects of the city that have transformed or, sometimes, disappeared. What has not changed is his particular interest in the ordinary parts of the central city that rarely photographed. In these areas, Thall sometimes finds a special sort of manmade light and space that he wants to call attention to.
Bob Thall taught photography at Columbia College Chicago from 1978-2017, serving as department chair from 1999-2011. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Art Institute of Chicago; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; California Museum of Photography; and others. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Portland Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Getty Center for the History of Art and The Humanities, Santa Monica to name a few. His current project, Some American Cities, features photographs of downtowns from across the country.
