"Even when I hated everyone...", from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995 Graduate and Faculty Portfolio
Maker
Owen, Thompson
Date1995
MediumScreen print
Dimensionspaper: 14 in x 11 in
Credit LineGift of Audrey Mandelbaum on behalf of the 1995 residents of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's MFA in Photography Program
Object number2000:239.14
About the ArtistThompson Owen studied photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is represented in The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995 Graduate and Faculty Portfolio, which comprises work by participants in the graduate program in 1995.
![Florence often accompanied me when I was photographing at Northbrook Court Mall. She would scoot from shop to shop while waiting for us to have dinner, or I fussed with my hidden camera. One evening, I saw my beloved wife and model doing what she had steadfastly refused to do all her life, trying on a wig. Years later, here is Florence in her nursing home-surprising me for our Passover dinner [...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/4582/thumbnail)
![In Florence’s last months, when she could no longer go out to the Botanic Garden for dinner, our dear friends Josh and Signe Murphy and their daughters India and June came over with all the necessary provender and utensils, and cooked complete meals for us three or four times. When Florence died I solved some of the problem of what to do with her clothes by giving a bunch to 15 year old India. India adored Florence - and was thrilled to inherit her favorite skirt and sport jacket. [...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/4591/thumbnail)
![The head of Florence’s Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association was her old friend, the renowned Lincoln scholar, Dan Weinberg. Four weeks before Florence died, Weinberg called to gingerly ask if Florence was well enough to be filmed for their organization’s archive. “Of course,” Florence said, and cheerily had her beloved care-giver Kalina Borissova dress her, put on her make-up and help her into my car for her last trip to Titles, Inc. [...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/4587/thumbnail)
Lange, Dorothea
February 1939 [LOC]
![in cotton. [...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9404/thumbnail)
