Bob Thall is a
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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photographer
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specializing in street scenes. He is the former Chair of the Photography Department at
Columbia College Chicago
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, stepping down in 2011. His photographs, of gritty urban street scenes, have been exhibited at the
Art Institute of Chicago
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and the
Museum of Modern Art
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in New York. He won the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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for photography in 1998.
[Connie Lauerman, "Photographer Sees Beauty in Humble Spaces", ]Chicago Tribune
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, Wednesday, March 24, 1999, section 5, pp. 1, 4
Books
*''The Perfect City (Creating the North American Landscape).''
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. .
*''The New American Village (Creating the North American Landscape).''
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. .
*''City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys.'' Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places. Center for American Places, 2002. .
*''On City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004.''Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places. Center for American Places, 2005. .
*''At City's Edge: Photographs of Chicago's Lakefront.'' Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places. Center for American Places, 2005. .
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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