Down at Theresa's. Chicago blues: The photographs of Marc PoKempner

Wolfgang Schorlau

ISBN 10: 3791323008 / ISBN 13: 9783791323008

Published by Prestel, 2000

About this Item

Not ex-library. Inscribed on ffep by Marc PoKempner, dated in the year of publication (2000).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1510348861517

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Down at Theresa's. Chicago blues: The photographs of Marc PoKempner
• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3791323008
• ISBN 13: 9783791323008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Illustrator(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Black-and-white photographs capture the people and the vibrant atmosphere at the world famous blues venue, Theresa's Lounge, in the late 1960s and 1970s. Marc PoKempner's shots are full of the very vigor that characterized the gritty, garish, good-time, working-class Chicago blues era when legends such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Otis Spann, Jimmy Rogers, and Junior Wells performed down at Theresa's.
The booming industries of Chicago acted as a magnet for rural migrants from the Delta region of northwestern Mississippi in the 1940s and '50s. The often painful adjustments made by these new arrivals in the Windy City led to the rise of a new musical form, and electrified urban version of the blues that was soon ringing out from the bars and clubs of the city's South Side.

About the Author

Marc PoKempner, the photographer, is a photojournalist living in Chicago whose interest in the blues scene dates from the late 1960's. He was a frequent visitor to Theresa's Lounge, located at 48th Street and Indiana Avenue. His work has been published in major magazines such as Time and Newsweek, and is included in the permenant collection of the Art Institue of Chicago.

Wolfgang Schorlau, the author, spent some time with the photographer in Chicago - the blues metropolis - and has written other articles on the blues scene.