Don Bersano – Building Elegant & Striking Forms
Having worked as a professional photographer for more than 35 years, Don Bersano has built a unique career photographing fitness and glamour subjects through the use of imaginative and intuitive lighting strategies. Bersano's portrait work has been widely circulated in numerous publications in the United States and abroad including ...
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Chester Alamo-Costello – A Two-Pronged Approach
In 2014 Chester Alamo-Costello started The COMP Magazine with a group of students (Egzon Shaqiri, Jessica Cuevas, Evan Griffin, and Jazzmyne Robbins) as a platform for covering new art and music in Chicagoland. In addition to functioning as the magazine’s publisher since inception, Chester has had an extensive career ...
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Scott Fortino – A Tour of Charged & Privileged Spaces
Accessibility can be key in producing thought provoking images in photography. Former CPD officer and photographer Scott Fortino has navigated Chicago while making photographs with objective eye of spaces not commonly seen for the better part of 30 years. This week, the COMP Magazine traveled up to Buena ...
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Doug McGoldrick – Juggling Art & Life Challenges
Balancing a career as a professional photographer, teaching part-time, and raising a family is daunting in this day and age. Top those three time-consuming activities with an ongoing aesthetic pursuit has been Doug McGoldrick's life challenge for the past 20 plus years. This week The COMP Magazine caught up ...
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Jason Reblando – Diaspora & New Deals
Having photographed in an array of places, including Chicago public housing, the New Deal "Greenbelt Towns," the Philippines, and central Illinois, one can see how Jason Reblando's aesthetic practice is actively influenced by his background in sociology in a manner that recalls prominent social documentarians who worked in the ...
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Melissa Ann Pinney – A Feminist Gaze
The female experience has been largely overlooked throughout art history. As a society, we appear to be heading toward an era where the female voice appears to be gaining warranted attention. In the work of photographer, Melissa Ann Pinney, we are presented with an expansive look at the activities ...
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Colleen Plumb – Layers of Context & Experience
For the better part of the past two decades, Colleen Plumb has examined the complex relationship we hold with animals from various points of view. In 2011, Plumb published Animals are Outside Today, and is currently working upon a series of works, Thirty Times a Minute, that looks at ...
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Bob Thall – Navigating Chicago and Beyond
With a cool methodical patience, Bob Thall has spent more than 40 years photographing Chicago and its environs. Long known as the quintessential documentarian of the city's urban landscape, in recent time Thall has expanded his oeuvre through traveling to and photographing in a variety of American city centers. ...
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Moholy-Nagy: Future Present @ AIC
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
September 30, 2016 through January 3, 2017
The Art Institute of Chicago
Regenstein Hall
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
When I was first introduced to László Moholy-Nagy in the late 1980s I struggled to get my mind around the theories he explored and his use of nontraditional materials. In ...
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Alison Ruttan – Investigating Instinct & Aggression
Utilizing strategies often attributed to social scientists, Alison Ruttan investigates characteristics of human behavior through insightful works that reveal our propensity with aggression which is evolving at an alarmingly escalating pace. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Ruttan at her Oak Park studio to discuss her exploratory use of ...
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