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My Florence
  • Published: 15 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806248
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $29.99
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My Florence

A 70-Year Love Story

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10 Mar 2015
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15 Mar 2015
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70 years of marriage and true love from one of the world's great photojournalists.

My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist Art Shay and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as 20-year-old camp counselors in the Catskill Mountains, and continue for seven decades.
  • Published: 15 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806248
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Art Shay

After flying fifty-three combat missions in World War II, ART SHAY (March 31, 1922 – April 28, 2018) joined Life magazine as a staff reporter. He went on to become one of America’s leading photojournalists. His pictures regularly appeared in Time, Fortune, the Saturday Evening Post, Forbes, Business Week, Parade, and The New York Times Magazine. Shay immortalized some of America’s most compelling 20th century figures, including John F. Kennedy Jr. and Muhammad Ali, along with street scenes of Chicago’s dispossessed. Several of these photographs have been noted as among the most enduring American pictures ever taken.
portrait photo of Art Shay

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Praise for My Florence

"Art Shay is an American original whose photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head, and then kicks you in the ass." --Roger Ebert

"Art Shay's writing, and his photos, have the Chicago accent, which may be to say he's telling you the truth as he knows it, as what right-thinking person would consider doing anything else?" --David Mamet