Posts tagged Art Shay

Girls, Girls, Girls (Rialto Theater, State Street at Van Buren), 1958, Chicago. Art Shay

Cool Seat, 1965, Chicago. Art Shay

Untitled (Nelson Algren and friend, silhouettes), 1949, Chicago. Art Shay

Symphony in Blue, 1989, Chicago. Art Shay

Nelson Algren and Art Shay, photographed by Marcel Marceau (yes, that Marcel Marceau), 1965, Chicago.

Old Town (Wells Street), 1970, Chicago. Art Shay

Rocky Graziano preparing for a fight, 1948, Chicago. Art Shay

Ignoring passed out drunks on Clark Street, 1952, Art Shay

Chicago’s Nelson Algren, by Art Shay

Nelson Algren (wearing glasses) at a party with his Wicker Park crew, 1952, Chicago. Art Shay

from Chicago’s Nelson Algren by Art Shay

Nelson Algren on a snowy Division St, 1952, Chicago. Art Shay

The Supremes, 1963, Chicago. Art Shay

Nelson Algren, Divison Street Y, 1951, Chicago. Art Shay

Art Shay’s photograph of Bob Achen, who is said to be Nelson Algren’s inspiration for Frankie Machine, the main character in The Man with the Golden Arm, 1950, Chicago.

Achen has just taken morphine in this photo.

Untitled (Men Working on Train Tracks), c.1950’s, Chicago, Art Shay.

I’m fairly certain that is Nelson Algren in the center of the photo.

Probably my favorite Art Shay photograph:

Backyard Olympics, 1950, Chicago. Art Shay.