It’s a long road from Albany Park to Hollywood, and Andy Romanoff has been taking photographs all along the way.
“Nicholas Ray at the Chateau Marmont,” an exhibit of Andy Romanoff Photographs
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Second Viewing: Chicago’s Lee Balterman
A reprint of an earlier post about my meeting with Chicago photographer Lee Balterman.
Oh, I love the night life
A parade of stars once swept through the doors of 610 N. Fairbanks Court in Streeterville. Lines formed around the block to see the likes of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Milton Berle, Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Durante, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bob Hope performing at the Chez Paree supper club.
Happy 91st, Lee Balterman
He photographed the world, but Chicago first and best and only on film. On a cool morning back in May, my good friend Jerry Pritikin invited me to meet legendary photographer Lee Balterman. My hour spent in Balterman’s apartment, crammed with five-foot-tall wood file cabinets containing his life’s work, gave me a front row seat […]
Focus
My blog niche is drifting. It’s headed towards Chicago and, more often than not, Chicago as it’s remembered. Not only in my memories, but in the memories of others as well. My blog posts may, however, still fit the niche I carved — life, work and the Internet. The Internet is increasingly where we find memories. It’s where we find […]