Skip to main content
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller

Michael L Abramson
1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Black woman striptease dancer

1974-1977

About the Item

"I walked into a timeless place … full of supporting actors and actresses of every conceivable role," Abramson wrote in Light: On the South Side, published by Chicago's Numero Group in 2009. Print details: © Michael L Abramson, Untitled #015, CA. 1974 -1977 Vintage Gelatin Silver Print Image size: 20.5 x 30.5 cm, Printed on 11 x 14" paper (27.9 x 35.4 cm), white border Series: 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side Stamped; "Provenance Authenticated by Michael L Abramson Estate, 2011" on verso Frame: 38 x 48 cm (Custom made classic hardwood frame, stain in black, museum mount board and antireflective UV AR protective art glass) All prints from 1970s South Side Chicago series are available for purchase as the singular works or as the group of images - please refer to more available prints from this series visible on our storefront on our 1stDibs profile. All works are Vintage Silver Gelatin prints made by the photographer at the time there were taken. All prints can be purchased in bespoke hardwood frames, museum mount board and anti-reflective UV protective Art Glass. If you wish to ship or purchase unframed prints, we are happy to arrange that for you. About the Photographer: Michael L Abramson was born in New Jersey in 1948, the late American photographer graduated with Master of Photography from Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1977. His work was regularly featured in Time, New York Times, Newsweek, People, Forbes, Harpers, Wall Street Journal and other popular American and international magazines. He was a highly sought after commercial portrait photographer and photojournalist. His subjects comprised celebrities, prominent stars from sport, politics and the entertainment industry included Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey and many more. Yet it was his 1970s series documenting the Chicago South side club scene that made Abramson’s name. Influenced by Brassaï’s photographs of the 1920s Paris, Abramson caught the stylish nightlife of the funk and soul era in full, alluring swing. His work was exhibited frequently since 1978, including a solo show at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, in 2014 and in the same year the group show on American Photography since 1950 at Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts (US). Many of Abramson’s south side prints were published in a photography book/ 2 LP record set entitled Light on the South Side (2009), by Chicago music recording company Numero Group. Following Abramson’s death in 2011 a new book entitled Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust From Chicago’s South Side was released by Chicago-based Chicago City Files Press (2015). His photographs are in major collections including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the California Museum of Photography and various private collections. Shipping: Overseas shipping - Flat fee - the work would be wood crated for protection of print and the framing.
More From This SellerView All
  • Cape Cross - Hoof, Horseshoe, Stallion - Equine detail, Silver Gelatin Print
    Located in London, GB
    Cape Cross, ‘Hoof’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 2/7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This pie...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Black and White, Wood Panel, Wood, Glass, Photographic Paper, Archival P...

  • Singspiel, Running Stallion, Champion Equine Black and White Photograph
    Located in London, GB
    Singspiel, Stallion Portrait 2001 by John Reardon 76 x 51 cm Edition of 5 only Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Mu...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Black and White, Wood, Glass, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Photog...

  • King's Best - Neck, Stallion detail / abstract horse portrait
    Located in London, GB
    King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piece is part of : (after) Whist...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography

    Materials

    Glass, Black and White, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Photographic...

  • Hand-coloured Print of weeping mythical sculpture angels in Walnut Frame
    Located in London, GB
    Hand-coloured tableau of a weeping spirit and her guardians, immobilised in marble. A disjointed narrative looking at recovery and protection, the angels shield the spirit with tender embraces and cry for her when alone. Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls). During the beginning of the 'Museum Age' in the 18th century , writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe discussed mythical...
    Category

    18th Century Victorian Nude Photography

    Materials

    Cotton, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Color, Walnut, Paint, Photographic Fi...

  • #19, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
    Located in London, GB
    A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...
    Category

    1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

  • The Lagisza Power Station, Silesia, Poland; Industrial landscape - Rare Vintage
    Located in London, GB
    This vintage print of the The Lagisza Power Station is extremely rare as it has been printed on warm tone paper giving a slight sepia effect. It is one of the last remaining vintage prints of this image available and it's a large print (40 x 58 cm) The Lagisza Power Station print is one of those most iconic industrial photographs...
    Category

    1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper

You May Also Like
  • Silver Gelatin print, Contemporary signed limited edition nude photo, Lisa
    By Ian Sanderson
    Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
    ‘ Lisa ' By Ian Sanderson, Silver Gelatin print, Fiber based Photography : 1989 A beautiful silver gelatin fibre based print produced in the darkroom directly from the negative. The ...
    Category

    1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Silver

  • Kate #14, Female Nude Series, Black and White Photograph of Summer in California
    By Leonard Freed
    Located in New york, NY
    Leonard Freed’s authenticated/stamped vintage (back of photo), 16" x 20", gelatin silver print, Kate #14, is from the Kate series, 2002. A photographer herself, model and yogini Kate remains complicit in striking dramatic poses for the Kate nude series by Freed. In this image Kate is supine, arms outstretched, body arched on the backside of a person in a downward dog yoga pose. On the edge of a cliff with the ebb and flow of the sea and waves many feet below, the duo remain in balance above swirling waters. Kate's trust in the universe, a face of abandon, reveals youthful fearlessness and love of freedom. Freed captures a self-possessed modern woman and partner in a dance of sorts that Kate shares on the edge of time...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

  • Kate #12, Kate Series, Vintage Black and White Photo Yoga Portrait Female Nude
    By Leonard Freed
    Located in New york, NY
    Kate #12, 2002 by Leonard Freed is a black and white photo of a female nude. The 16" x 20" gelatin silver print is signed by the photographer, and stamped vintage on verso (back of p...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

  • Stripper Performers, Atlanta, Vintage Photograph Nude Female Dancers USA 1990s
    By Leonard Freed
    Located in New york, NY
    Stripper Performers, Atlanta, 1996 by Leonard Freed is an 11" x 14" vintage print, stamped on verso (back of photo) with Freed's copyright stamp and signed (back of photo) by the art...
    Category

    1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

  • Kate Bending, Vintage Black and White Photography of Female Nude, Signed Print
    By Leonard Freed
    Located in New york, NY
    Leonard Freed's stamped vintage (verso), 14" x 11," gelatin silver signed print, Kate Bending, is from the Kate series, 2002. A photographer herself, model Kate remains complicit in ...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin

  • The Kate Series, Portfolio of (5) Black And White Photographs of Female Nudes
    By Leonard Freed
    Located in New york, NY
    The Kate Series, 2002 by Leonard Freed came as a welcome reprieve near the end of Freed's life before which time the photographer tackled social-documentary subjects for which he bec...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

    Materials

    Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Recently Viewed

View All