City - Chicago - Piano Row 1907 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Chicago - Piano Row 1907 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1907
Original title: Elevated railroad
Location: Wabash Ave & Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill
This image had a few issues.
For one, there were some deep scratches across it, thick black lines on the bottom. Like a cat attacked it. There was also white patches on the bottom, like paper was stuck on it, rebuilding that was a bit of a pain... what else... oh, there was a huge corner missing.
Luckily for me, there was a smaller version of this image, it was the original print from this negative, and it had the missing piece. Its not as sharp though, but its a small trade off. However the print was missing a large chunk on the side, if i cropped it to the size of that photo, i would lose half the Whitney poster. And I liked that poster. So I rebuilt the left half of the green building, adding in a new sign on the left, and building up that billboard.
This location still exists, but everything on the left side is a parking lot, and on the right, new buildings. The tower was replaced with something more robotic like. I was able to find a restored train of this era, the train was an olive green with red trim. The towers however I couldn't find, so I chose a common green on green tone that train stations all seem to adopt.
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October 28th, 2017
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