Lee Bey on Chicago’s South Side, Historic Preservation, and Race

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This article was originally published on Common Edge.

By and large, architectural photo books hew to a paradigm: big, glossy images of big, glossy buildings, paired with minimal text, shorn of any and all polemics. Context, in this environment, can be a distraction. Fortunately, Lee Bey’s new book, Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side (Northwestern University Press), is a notable exception to this unwritten rule. It’s an intriguing hybrid: a photo book of the South Side, a neighborhood history, a mini-memoir, and a polemic about systemic racism and historic preservation in Chicago.

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Cite: Martin Pedersen. "Lee Bey on Chicago’s South Side, Historic Preservation, and Race" 01 Nov 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/927298/lee-bey-on-chicagos-south-side-historic-preservation-and-race> ISSN 0719-8884

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