Southern Exposure by Lee Bey

Southern Exposure by Lee Bey

Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and gallery—quality color photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure documents the remarkable and largely unsung architecture of the South Side. The book features an array of landmarks—from a Space Age dry cleaners to a nineteenth-century lagoon that meanders down the middle of a working-class neighborhood street—that are largely absent from arts discourse, in no small part because they sit in a predominantly African American and Latino section of town that's better known as a place of disinvestment, abandonment, and violence. Inspired by Bey's 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibition, Southern Exposure visits sixty sites, including lesser-known but important work by luminaries such as Jeanne Gang, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Eero Saarinen, as well as buildings by pioneering black architects such as Walter T. Bailey, John Moutoussamy, and Roger Margerum. Pushing against the popular narrative that depicts Chicago's South Side as an architectural wasteland, Bey shows beautiful and intact buildings and neighborhoods that reflect the value-and potential—of the area. Southern Exposure offers much to delight architecture aficionados and writers, native Chicagoans and guests to the city alike.

Southern Exposure is a 35mm love storyJust like relationships, the buildings that Bey photographs reflect our affection and our neglect, and remind us of why we are so devoted to Chicago's South Side. Through these truly awesome images, we are inspired to stop, behold, and not take these treasures for granted." —Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City

Lee Bey is an editorial writer at the Chicago Sun-Times. He has also worked at the paper as a reporter and architecture critic. He is the author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side.Michael Williams is the author and co-author of more than twelve books--many based on the photo archives. His most recent book is River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It, a collection of portraits and excerpts from formerly enslaved men and women.Richard Cahan, former picture editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, is the author or co-author of more than a dozen award-winning books, including books about slavery, World War II and Barack Obama.

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ISBN 13	9780810140981
ISBN 10	0810140985
Title	Southern Exposure
Author	Lee Bey
Series	Second To None: Chicago Stories
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Northwestern University Press
Year published	2019-10-30
Number of pages	192
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