Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair (Calla Editions)

Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair (Calla Editions) by Appelbaum, Stanley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 0800759600069.

Over 27 million people visited the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Countless more experienced the fair through the wondrous images of C. D. Arnold, the eras foremost architectural photographer. Through his luminous pictures, Arnold became the events leading historian, publicist, and visual philosopher. This gallery of Arnolds photographs, painstakingly retouched to achieve a new radiance, presents a magnificent tribute to the "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings. In addition to its visual tour of the Expositions extensive buildings and grounds, this lavish book also celebrates a city that treasures its architecture. The classical Greek and Roman design expressed by the Chicago Worlds Fair defined the course of American monumental building for decades to come, and the text accompanying these historic photographs provides fascinating interpretations of the Expositions influence on American building styles and tastes. From conception to closing day and beyond, Spectacle in the White City offers glimpses of past splendor that will be treasured by Chicagoans, history buffs, and lovers of fine art and photography.