June 15, 2005
Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait
by Terry Evans
for example Oak Street Beach
"A Collaboration Between Openlands Project and Chicago Metropolis 2020" link
~Monumental. These are stunning photos. Terry Evans' work has changed the way many people view their everyday surroundings. Compare and contrast these images with the Sierra Club/Walker Evans "sacred places" school of photography.
There are very few places in America that have not been altered by man and his ideas. (In less than 200 years for most of the USA.) We live in those scratched, cut, burned, planted, paved, graded, grazed, filled and built places.