[Grad_history_students] History Club: Wednesday, January 25 at 6 PM (meet in 4th floor of SAC at 5:30)

[Amy Tyson]

*The subject of public housing, its sudden eradication, and its
significance to the history of race and class issues in the U.S.,though
fascinating, is beyond the reach of photography.*
– Paul D’Amato


*HISTORY CLUB*

 Is history beyond the reach of photography?

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25

Urban History Meets Urban Art

History Club will gather in the History Department (4th floor of SAC) at

 5:30 PM for this free and open event at the DePaul Art Museum:* **A
Conversation with urban photographer, Paul D’Amato*, whose current work
focuses on public housing structures and residents.

*We'll walk over to the Museum*

* together at 5:45. *

All are welcome.

R.S.V.P.s encouraged to Prof. Amy Tyson

atyson2 at depaul.edu

*Flyer attached.*
[image: 7eae56bbe156D'Amato.png]

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*If you would like to think about issues of public housing before we meet,
you might turn to:*

Encyclopedia Entry: "Chicago Housing
Authority,"<http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/253.html>by
Harvey M. Choldin,
*Encyclopedia of Chicago* online
Book: *Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public
Housing<http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M5WdQQ3DBtsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=chicago+public+housing&ots=d23N2_hOfv&sig=2M_je7lynYZw0ornWVoDsKFlDBk#v=onepage&q=chicago%20public%20housing&f=false>
,* by D. Bradford Hunt (Chicago; University of Chicago, 2009)
Article: "The Struggle Over Redevelopment At Cabrini-Green, 1989-2004," by
Brian J. Miller, *Journal of Urban History, *September 2008; 34 (6)

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**If you would like to think about intersections between history and
photography, you might turn to:*
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Book: *Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of
History<http://books.google.com/books?id=yG6G9c7hLHEC&pg=PR18&lpg=PR18&dq=Words+of+Light:+Theses+on+the+Photography+of+History&source=bl&ots=ZQ3LedWA_T&sig=zwKo7_W3_LVbcPuG3IV8OkGyZUI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x74YT7WxFIvQgAexkt3pCw&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Words%20of%20Light%3A%20Theses%20on%20the%20Photography%20of%20History&f=false>
*, by Eduardo Cadava (New Jersey: Princeton, 2009)



Amy M. Tyson, Ph.D.
History Department
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773-325-4983
Fax: 773/325-4764
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