Skrebneski Photographs Chefs of Chicago
Photo at left: Chefs featured in the exhibition include (left to right) Sarah Stegner of the Ritz Carlton Dining Room, Jean Joho, Everest, and Arun Sampanthavivat, Arun's Thai Restaurant. Photo at right: Mayor Richard M. Daley, Victor Skrebneski, and chef Edna Stewart of Edna's restaurant.
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City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower
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Chefs in the Exhibition:
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Chicago's most cherished landmark for over a century, the Historic Water Tower has been transformed into the city's official photography gallery. The inaugural exhibition, Skrebneski
Photographs Chefs of Chicago, was a tribute to the quality and diversity of Chicago's culinary heritage.
It featured photographs of fourteen Chicago chefs, who represent the hundreds of talented, award-winning
chefs working in Chicago today. The fourteen chefs were selected in a random drawing of names from 58 chefs
who were nominated by Chicago restaurant reviewers.
"It is fitting that City Gallery debuts with an exhibition by Victor Skrebneski, who is not only one of the world's greatest talents, but also a lifelong Chicagoan who is passionate about the city and its people," said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Lois Weisberg. "Victor not only contributed his talent and extraordinary vision but also spearheaded the fund-raising effort that helped to finance the interior restoration of the Historic Water Tower." Skrebneski, whose illustrious career spans fifty years, has photographed such celebrities as Francois Truffaut, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles, Ginger Rogers, and Andy Warhol. He has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, where a retrospective exhibition, titled Skrebneseki: The First Fifty Years, will be displayed beginning in September. Located in one of Chicago's most popular landmarks, City Gallery, featuring photographs of Chicago by Chicago photographers, was opened to facilitate and encourage public enjoyment of the historic structure. City Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6:30pm; Sundays until 5pm.
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