{"id":162252,"date":"2024-08-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/?p=162252"},"modified":"2024-07-27T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:56:38","slug":"howard-simmons-my-camera-tells-once-upon-a-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2024\/08\/howard-simmons-my-camera-tells-once-upon-a-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Simmons: My Camera Tells: Once Upon a Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from a trove of thousands of images photographed between the 1970\u2019s through the early 2000\u2019s, Howard Simmons\u2019 exhibit \u201cStories my Camera Tells: Once Upon a Chicago\u201d features a selection of his favorite images of notable Chicago personalities and politicians, Chicago street scenes, and iconic images from photoshoots for Ebony magazine and his work in commercial photography. The exhibit includes both celebrated images that document significant moments in American history as well as never-before-seen photography, accompanied by Simmons\u2019 personal stories and accounts about his trailblazing work as one of the first Black photographers for the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epiphanychi.com\/\">For more information and to RSVP for the opening reception, go to: www.epiphanychi.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from a trove of thousands of images photographed between the 1970\u2019s through the early 2000\u2019s, Howard Simmons\u2019 exhibit \u201cStories my Camera Tells: Once Upon a Chicago\u201d features a selection of his favorite images of notable Chicago personalities and politicians, Chicago street scenes, and iconic images from photoshoots for Ebony magazine and his work in<a href=\"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2024\/08\/howard-simmons-my-camera-tells-once-upon-a-chicago\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":162253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[397,225960,261601,261679,261680,306],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/SIMMONS-THUMBNAIL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163749,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162252\/revisions\/163749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}