Photos © Mark Hertzberg (2022)
I had to edit 34,575 Frank Lloyd Wright building images (or 185.62 GB) down to 30 photos for an exhibit.
Here’s the backstory: Lake Forest (Illinois) College, my alma mater, honored me with two concurrent exhibits this month for my 50th anniversary Homecoming. Rebecca Goldberg, Lecturer in Art and Director of the Gallery in the Romanesque Durand Art Institute building, initially asked me just to include a handful of my Frank Lloyd Wright work in an exhibit of my career in photojournalism. I found it hard to edit the Wright work down to just four or so photos. Fortunately there was enough space in two galleries to mount two separate exhibits, each with 30 prints. I decided to pick mostly abstract interpretations of Wright’s work than show perhaps predictable building photos. My selection is below, in alphabetical order of the commissions:
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1956
Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, 1938
Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, 1938
Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, 1938
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 1943
Hillside Drafting Room, Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1933
Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 1919
Imperial Hotel entry way, Tokyo, 1915, as rebuilt at Meiji Mura near Nagoya, Japan
Lindholm Service Station, Cloquet, Minnesota, 1956
Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, California, 1957
Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, California, 1957
Meyer May House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1908
Meyer May House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1908
Meyer May House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1908
Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1952
Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1952
Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1952
Romeo and Juliet Windmill, Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1898
SC Johnson Administration Building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936
SC Johnson Administration Building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936
SC Johnson Administration Building, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936
SC Johnson Research Tower, Racine, Wisconsin, 1943/44
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911, 1925
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911, 1925
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911, 1925
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911, 1925
Thomas P. Hardy House, Racine, Wisconsin, 1904/05
Wingspread, Wind Point, Wisconsin, 1937
Wingspread, Wind Point, Wisconsin, 1937
Now, as for those 34,575 images…if I had time to go through them, a good chunk could be deleted. But who has time to do that?
Hours for the gallery…the show runs through October 30:
https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/art-and-art-history/art-galleries
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Wright in Racine 