You can watch this interview in its entirety along with other oral histories, cspan. Org history. Welcome to the 30 sixth annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. Before we begin. And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in
Rick kogan in. Carl smith is the author of chicagos great fire. The destruction and resurgence of an iconic american city. Please welcome me. Please join me in welcoming carl smith and rick kogan. You are good people to come out on a hot day like this. And partake of literature. This booki am now claiming to be a big part of this book because the paperback addition is just out and on the top of that addition is something that i wrote that says, simply put, the best book ever written about the fire. My father, who i admire tremendously wrote to fire a bit about the fire. And i still say this. And my brother is here. Carl, it is a pleasure to meet you. I met you at the socalled writers spot over here where they have run out of things to drink and eat. You knew my dad. Yes, i did. I came to chicago in 1972. From . I had just finished graduate school at yale in new haven, connecticut. And i grew up in the east and went to college and graduate school in the east. But what i was most interes
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Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a formal q, and a, but i will ask each of the panelists to stick around and if you want to chat with them one on one, they will be veil for a little while to do that. Our next panelist is melissa. They earned her ba in 2005 and her ma in 2007. She worked in new york at christies auction house and the time warner center, the Museum Experience includes the Research Positions in new york and the victor annual beter museum in london. She has been a member of the curtorial team of San Francisco since 2008. And currently holds the position of assistant curator for european art. It has supported works from the 15th century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. And she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and m
It is sort of like a frozen world, really and there is movement of the camera, 360 degrees. But it is frozen. There are moments in time and in 2007. When this car goes by just like that and was gone, most of the time people dont know that there are pictures being taken and it really bakes into this work Something Different than the work that would be taken on the street. There is sort of visual connections to street photography and there is philosophical connections. You know there is some movement by me, that yet, the camera was a machine and it was taken from a height of about 7 feet of a fixed position. No one was wandering around and chosing various points of view and it presented to me this huge canvas of america, you know, that was pretty massive in terms of geography and yet just a small window and we dont see into these peoples lives and we dont really know what is happening outside of the frame or where they are going and we dont know anything about them. So i went through exp