cassens, gloria Collection

Dates: circa 2012-2015. Size: .5 linear feet, includes 908 photographs, 2 folders. Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections. gloria cassens is a writer and a photographer. While her work covers several genres, including architectural photographs and shots of nature, but her main focus, and the content of this collection, is on individuals she encounters in her daily wandering in Chicago’s Loop and Near North Side. Her photographs graphically depict the human conditions that some people, young and old, men and women, experience. [Finding aid]