Chicago

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CHICAGO
Photography by ARCHIE LIEBERMAN Text by ROBERT CROMIE
More than 130 full-color photographs
AMONG THE GREAT CITIES of the world, Chicago increasingly is becoming known for its beauty. A renaissance has transformed Chicago in recent years, blossoming forth in sculptures by such masters as Picasso and Calder, in spectacular skyscrapers, and in fountained plazas where one can hear a noontime concert, attend an art fair, feed the pigeons, eat lunch, get a suntan.
In CHICAGO, the city is portrayed at its most magnificent by famed Chicago photographer Archie Lieberman. Here is Chicago as one approaches it by air, in the rosy light of dusk, and bejeweled by night. Here is the shoreline that rivals Rio's; here are parks reminiscent of Paris, and elegant Michigan Avenue, sister of New York's Fifth.
Complementing the visual portrait of the city is the entertaining text by Chicago's own Robert Cromie, known to millions of public television watchers all over America as the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

CHICAGO
Photography by ARCHIE LIEBERMAN Text by ROBERT CROMIE
More than 130 full-color photographs
AMONG THE GREAT CITIES of the world, Chicago increasingly is becoming known for its beauty. A renaissance has transformed Chicago in recent years, blossoming forth in sculptures by such masters as Picasso and Calder, in spectacular skyscrapers, and in fountained plazas where one can hear a noontime concert, attend an art fair, feed the pigeons, eat lunch, get a suntan.
In CHICAGO, the city is portrayed at its most magnificent by famed Chicago photographer Archie Lieberman. Here is Chicago as one approaches it by air, in the rosy light of dusk, and bejeweled by night. Here is the shoreline that rivals Rio's; here are parks reminiscent of Paris, and elegant Michigan Avenue, sister of New York's Fifth.
Complementing the visual portrait of the city is the entertaining text by Chicago's own Robert Cromie, known to millions of public television watchers all over America as the longtime host of "Book Beat." With master storyteller Cromie we travel back to Chicago's settlement in 1784 by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, witness the Fort Dearborn Massacre, the Chicago Fire, and the marvels of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. We meet such unforgettable Chicagoans as pioneer merchants Marshall Field, Sears and Roebuck, Aaron Montgomery Ward, bombastic mayor Big Bill Thompson, gangster Al Capone, social pioneer Jane Addams, and lakefront architect Daniel H. Burnham—whose motto echoed a spirit that still lives in Chicago: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." With Cromie, we look closely at today's Chicago and Chicagoans, and learn how they got that way.
CHICAGO is for all who love the city, a treasury of its most beautiful and spectacular sights in all moods and seasons. It is a book for anyone who would know Chicago, a memento for visitors, a choice gift for good friends near and far.
Cover photo:
Christmas lights
on North Michigan Avenue Vissza