In good condition. Poster measures roughly 30 x 17 inches; image 17 x 17 inches. Good condition.
$20 plus postage.
WAYNE MILLER POSTER TITLED “Chicago’s Southside" published by University of California Press Berkeley around 2000 to accompany his book of the same name. This poster is New Old Stock never released to the public. Condition is excellent. This project produced a remarkable collection of photographs, very moving and informative at the same time.
Biography: Wayne Forest Miller (September 19, 1918 – May 22, 2013)
Miller was grew up in Chicago, attended college there and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy where he was assigned to Edward Steichen's World War II Naval Aviation Photographic Unit. He was among the first Western photographers to document the destruction at Hiroshima.
After the war he resettled in Chicago. He won two Guggenheim fellowships in 1946-1948, which documented The Way of Life of the Northern Negro. These images were published in his book Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948. This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering daily life. He photographed mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson.
Miller taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago and freelanced of Life and Magnum. In 1955 with his wife Joan he also worked with Edward Steichen as associate curator for The Family of Man exhibition and book which opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Steichen selected eight of Miller's photographs for this exhibit. He was active as a photographer from 1942 until 1975 and thereafter a champion of saving the redwoods in California. He died in Orinda CA age 94.
$20 plus postage.
WAYNE MILLER POSTER TITLED “Chicago’s Southside" published by University of California Press Berkeley around 2000 to accompany his book of the same name. This poster is New Old Stock never released to the public. Condition is excellent. This project produced a remarkable collection of photographs, very moving and informative at the same time.
Biography: Wayne Forest Miller (September 19, 1918 – May 22, 2013)
Miller was grew up in Chicago, attended college there and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy where he was assigned to Edward Steichen's World War II Naval Aviation Photographic Unit. He was among the first Western photographers to document the destruction at Hiroshima.
After the war he resettled in Chicago. He won two Guggenheim fellowships in 1946-1948, which documented The Way of Life of the Northern Negro. These images were published in his book Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948. This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering daily life. He photographed mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson.
Miller taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago and freelanced of Life and Magnum. In 1955 with his wife Joan he also worked with Edward Steichen as associate curator for The Family of Man exhibition and book which opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Steichen selected eight of Miller's photographs for this exhibit. He was active as a photographer from 1942 until 1975 and thereafter a champion of saving the redwoods in California. He died in Orinda CA age 94.
