Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright

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Image Above: Photographer Unknown. Pedro E. Guerrero.1939. Courtesy the Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero/© The Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero

FLW at Taliesin, Spring Green

Self Portrait

Wright's wife, Catherine Tobin Wright and son, Llewellyn

Studio of Wright's Oak Park Home

Playroom at the Oak Park Home and Studio

Front Porch of Wright's Oak Park Home

Japan Photos

Hillside Home School

Coonley House

Midway Gardens

Samuel Freeman House

Taliesin West

Falling Water

S.C. Johnson

Pedro Guerrero

George S. Sturges House

Ezra Stoller, Guggenheim

Speakers

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Lee Bey

Writer and photographer Lee Bey is an architecture critic and Editorial Board Member at the Sun-Times, and architecture critic for ABC7 Chicago. He is also the author of the book Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side and was the Emmy-nominated host of the WTTW special Building Blocks: The Architecture of Chicago’s South Side. Bey is now working on a book about architecture on the West Side of Chicago.

Photo credit: Lee Bey

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Judith Bromley

Judith Bromley is an architectural photographer with a strong emphasis in Prairie School and historic architecture. Her photographs have been published in numerous books and calendars on Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture, and exhibited widely. Books include Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Taliesin West by Kathryn Smith (Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1997), and with James Iska, The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks by Julia Bachrach (Center for American Places, 2002).

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Jennifer Gray

Jennifer Gray is the Director of the Taliesin Institute at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. She has taught at Columbia University, Cornell University, and The Museum of Modern Art and has curated several exhibitions on Wright. She studies modern architectural history, with an emphasis on how designers used architecture, cities, and landscapes to advance social and spatial justice at the turn of the 20th century. She also is interested in contemporary social practice, curatorial practice, the history of architecture exhibitions, and questions of critical heritage

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Sarah Holian 

Sarah Holian is the Curator and Director of Interpretation at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust (Chicago) and a Lecturer at DePaul University who specializes in modern architecture and design. Holian earned graduate degrees in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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Ken Tadashi Oshima

Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches in the areas of trans-national architectural history, theory, representation, and design. He has also been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and UCLA. Dr. Oshima's publications include The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World (Kajima, 2023), Architecturalized Asia (University of Hawai'i Press/Hong Kong University Press, 2013), a monograph on Arata Isozaki (Phaidon, 2009), and Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku: International Architecture in Interwar Japan (University of Washington Press, 2009).

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Lauren M. Pacheco

Lauren M. Pacheco is a Mexican-American born and raised in southwest Chicago. She is a civic practice artist and cultural worker with over fifteen years of arts administration, curation, and project management experience. Her background is grounded in social practice and public engagement with a personal mandate to responsibly and respectfully invest in targeted communities. Today, Pacheco serves as a resource to policymakers and institutions in the public dialogue about issues that impact artists and creative enterprises. Lauren is co-founder of the Chicago Urban Art Society and Slow & Low: Chicago Lowrider Festival. She is a Marilynn Thoma Co-Creative Director with Chicago Humanities.