{"id":29223,"date":"2018-04-29T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T21:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=29223"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:27:43","slug":"art-shay-man-with-a-camera-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/04\/art-shay-man-with-a-camera-r-i-p.html","title":{"rendered":"Art Shay, Man With a Camera, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

He was 94. His classic book of photographs, Nelson Algren’s Chicago,<\/em> was published three decades after shooting them for Life<\/em> during the height of Algren’s fame in the 1950s. The magazine never used them.
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Art Shay<\/font> [Photo: Steve and Dick Shay]<\/font><\/p><\/div><\/a>
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Shay was kind enough to sign a copy of the book for me.<\/center>
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Algren and Shay in a photo taken by Marcel Marceau when he came to Chicago on one of his theatrical tours.<\/font><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

According to Shay’s obit in the Chicago Tribune<\/a> by Rick Kogan, the late Roger Ebert once said that Shay\u2019s photography “shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He was 94. His classic book of photographs, Nelson Algren’s Chicago, was published three decades after shooting them for Life during the height of Algren’s fame in the 1950s. The magazine never used them. Shay was kind enough to sign a copy of the book for me. According to Shay’s obit in the Chicago Tribune […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-news","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/art-shay-with-camera-247x355-e1525029959730.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7Bl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29313,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223\/revisions\/29313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}