Showing Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair by Stanley Appelbaum

HardCover. Pub Date :2009-02-26 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: Calla Editions Over 27 million people visited the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago Countless more experienced the fair through the wondrous images of CD Arnold. the eras foremost. architectural photographer. Through his luminous pictures. Arnold became the events leading historian. publicist. and visual philosopher. This gallery of Arnolds photographs. painstakingly retouched to achieve a new radiance. presents a magnificent tribute to the White City of shining Beaux-Arts buildings. In addition to its visual tour of the Expositions extensive buildings and grounds. this lavish book also celebrates a city that treasures its architecture. The classical Greek and Roman design expressed by the Chicago Worlds Fair defined the course of American monumental building for decades to come. and the tex...