Description:
from "In Chicago" portfolio: theatre marquis with car parked in front, two chefs in window of diner on ground floor
Louis Sullivan; architecture
Label Text:
Garrick Theatre is part of Szarkowski’s project to photograph Louis Sullivan’s architecture, to document and celebrate it, and to use it, paired with biographical information and quotations, to commemorate Sullivan’s life in the 1956 book The Idea of Louis Sullivan. Revealing his outlook on this structure’s evolution—a highly praised early skyscraper that had become host to the gaudy Ham n’ Egger restaurant—Szarkowski pairs this photograph in his book with a quotation from Genius and the Mobocracy, by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of Sullivan’s students, who designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo:
He [Sullivan] had taken great pride in the performance of the Imperial Hotel . . . “At last, Frank,” he said, “something they can’t take away from you.” I wonder why he thought “they” couldn’t take it away from me? “They” can take anything away from anybody.
MD, PHOTOdocument exhibition, March 30, 2012-July 22, 2012
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