Smiling Boys Wearing Vests

Open URL Smiling Boys Wearing Vests
  • Title Smiling Boys Wearing Vests
  • Caption A group of boys from a Celtic dancing school at the Celtic Festival
  • Photographer Liu, Feng
  • Date September 16, 2000
  • Iso Date 2000-09-16
  • Project Location Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Project Number 1062
  • Project Title Street Scenes
  • Original Sleeve Title Grand Park
  • Sleeve Caption Street scenes throughout Chicago from the view of a new photographer to the city. For Feng Liu, who came here from Singapore in 1999, Chicago is America. Fascinated by a new culture, Liu has taken to the streets of Chicago with a fresh perspective on our way of life."To me, the culture is new and interesting," he says."We can spread the language of all life and being from country to country and from person to person. Photography's universal comprehensibility erases the boundaries of language." Born in Shanghai, Liu moved to Chicago's Northwest Side for his job as a quality engineer. But it's in his spare time that he dives into the American scene, capturing the faces and places that are new to him. Liu has carved a niche with CITY 2000 as one of the project's pure street photographers. His only assignment: venturing out into the city and capturing the sights as an eyewitness." These pictures tell his story as well as ours.
  • Subject Boys; Parks; Day
  • Subject Vocabulary Scheme LCSH
  • Type Image
  • Form Photographs
  • Medium BW
  • Film Size 35mm
  • Sponsorship Funded through the support of the Comer Foundation.
  • Host University of Illinois at Chicago. Library.
  • Collection CITY 2000 (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Repository University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives.
  • Citation Cite as [Creator]. [Title], [Identifier]. Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 (University of Illinois at Chicago).
  • Rights Contact photographer for use rights.
  • Staff Notes CITY 2000: images from the book
  • Local Identifier 38198100264033_30
  • Item Url http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/u?/uic_city,5415
  • Digital Collection CITY 2000 (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Rights Contact photographer for use rights.