CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2015. Compelling photos related to crime in Chicago since the 1920s will be on display for the first time beginning Jan. 22 as Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, continues the Above the Fold: 10 Decades of Chicago Photojournalism series.
Running through April 11, “Crime Then and Now: Through the Lens of the Chicago Tribune” tells the story of crime photography and how it has changed over the decades through 65 Tribune photos from the early 1920s through the present.
Co-curated by Chicago Tribune Picture Editor Michael Zajakowski and Gage Gallery’s Tyra Robertson, the exhibit features vintage photographs as well as contemporary photos taken by photographers assigned to the Tribune’s crime beat.
“For the last two years, the Chicago Tribune has devoted new resources and energy both to its vintage crime photography and to its crime reporting today,” said Zajakowski. He will talk about the Tribune’s approach to photographing crime at a 5 p.m. Jan. 22 opening reception at Gage.
The exhibit features historic shots of such well-known figures as Al Capone, John Dillinger and Clarence Darrow arguing in 1924 against the death penalty for Nathan Leopold and Robert Loeb, who were sentenced to life in prison in one of Chicago’s most notorious murder cases. Contemporary crime photography of gang shootings and communities in distress over escalating violence also are featured prominently in the exhibit.
“With this show, we’re comparing and contrasting the ways that crime is photographed, drawing a distinction between the way police and the press have interacted over the years on crime reporting,” said Robertson, co-curator of the new Gage exhibit.
“Crime Then and Now: Through the Lens of the Chicago Tribune” is the second in a series of exhibits about Chicago photojournalism being presented during the 2014-15 academic year at Roosevelt’s Gage Gallery. The first in the “Above the Fold: 10 Decades of Chicago Photojournalism” series was on photography by former Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist John H. White.
An exhibit of iconic photos from the Chicago Reader will be featured in the series finale during a show called “Chicago Reader in Black & White,” running June 4-Aug. 28.
Free and open to the public, the ongoing Gage series is sponsored by Roosevelt’s College of Arts and Sciences and is made possible by the generosity of donor Susan Rubnitz.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. For more information, call 312-341-6458 or visit www.roosevelt.edu/gagegallery.
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