{"id":16093,"date":"2016-07-20T05:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16093"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:44:10","slug":"john-grubers-photo-exhibition-at-the-illinois-railway-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/john-grubers-photo-exhibition-at-the-illinois-railway-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gruber\u2019s Photo Exhibition at the Illinois Railway Museum."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week I traveled with John Gruber to the Illinois Railway Museum at Union. John needed to deliver some material in relation to his North Shore photo exhibit, and he wanted me to expose a few images of him with his photographs.<\/p>\n

Between 1960 and 1963, John made a project of documenting the last years of operation of the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee interurban electric line.<\/p>\n

North Shore was an intensive electric line that connected the Chicago Loop (trains served downtown using the rapid transit \u2018L\u2019\u2014[elevated line]) with Milwaukee, Wisconsin via Chicago\u2019s northern suburbs. The line was well known for its articulated streamlined speedsters called Electroliners<\/em> and its electrically cooked hamburgers known as Electroburgers. <\/em>Operations concluded in January 1963.<\/p>\n

John\u2019s work is iconic. He exposed thousands of North Shore photographs and his photography goes well beyond ordinary images of the trains. He focused on people as well as machines, and preserved a feel for this unusual railway in motion.<\/p>\n

Johns work was prominently featured in the pages of Trains magazine and in books such as those by the late William D. Middleton.<\/p>\n

His current exhibit can be seen in the waiting room of the East Union station at IRM. It will be on display through the end of 2016.<\/p>\n

Of course, while we were at IRM, we took the opportunity to travel the line, and visit some of the historic equipment (which includes several of North Shore\u2019s cars).<\/p>\n

In addition to a variety of digital photos, I exposed these\u00a0black & white images with my Leica.<\/p>\n

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John Gruber at IRM. Exposed on Ilford Pan F using a Leica 3A with Nikkor f3.5 35mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed on Ilford FP4 black & white film using a Leica 3A with Nikkor f3.5 35mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed on Ilford FP4 black & white film using a Leica 3A with Nikkor f3.5 35mm lens. (image cropped).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more information on the Illinois Railway Museum see: http:\/\/www.irm.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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