Untitled
Kenneth Heilbron
1935–1955
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 41.9 × 27.6 cm (16 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.); Paper: 42.4 × 28.2 cm (16 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Mount: 50.9 × 40.7 cm (20 1/16 × 16 1/16 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paper
About
Kenneth Heilbron became the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s first photography instructor in 1939, and he also had a long, successful career as a commercial photog-rapher. He worked as the city’s bureau photographer for Time and Life magazines; shot for other publications, such as Fortune; and garnered recognition for his fashion and advertising work, especially for Marshall Field & Company. This advertising image, emblematic of sensible post-war fashions, was taken in front of the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue. The glazed terracotta of its facade and the northwest bridge house of the DuSable Bridge, commis-sioned by William Wrigley Jr., are visible in the background.
