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A River Runs Through It
Yes, we've used the title in Perspectives before, but we couldn't resist using it again. Over the course of a year, some 1 million people will have the opportunity to see the creations of SIUC photography professor Dan Overturf as they walk through the international terminal of Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Forty photographs—a full third—of the works reproduced in the book A River Through Illinois, co-authored by journalist and SIUC alumnus Gary Marx, were hung there in August 2008. The prints range from 24"x48" to 24"x96" and will be displayed at O'Hare for about a year.
The book, released in April 2008 by SIU Press, was eight years in the making. Overturf's documentary photographs are accompanied with text by Marx blending descriptions, historical notes, and the stories of people who work on and live along the Illinois Waterway: the Illinois River and the rivers and canals connecting it to Lake Michigan. Thus the book spans urban and rural areas. Exhibitions showing some of the photographs and accompanying text blocks "started many years ago," Overturf says, but he included a number of previously unexhibited photos taken in the Chicago area for O'Hare, and Marx revised some of the text.
The 42"x42" photo being hung here is captioned "Barge wheelhouse pilot entering Marseilles Lock; two-minute exposure.
River mile marker 244.5, August 2001."
—by Marilyn Davis
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