<html lang="en"> <head> <!-- Required meta tags --> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"> <!-- Bootstrap CSS --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Gn5384xqQ1aoWXA+058RXPxPg6fy4IWvTNh0E263XmFcJlSAwiGgFAW/dAiS6JXm" crossorigin="anonymous"> <title>King Daniel Ganaway</title> </head> <body> <div class="text-center"> <!-- Optional JavaScript --> <!-- jQuery first, then Popper.js, then Bootstrap JS --> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-KJ3o2DKtIkvYIK3UENzmM7KCkRr/rE9/Qpg6aAZGJwFDMVNA/GpGFF93hXpG5KkN" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-ApNbgh9B+Y1QKtv3Rn7W3mgPxhU9K/ScQsAP7hUibX39j7fakFPskvXusvfa0b4Q" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JZR6Spejh4U02d8jOt6vLEHfe/JQGiRRSQQxSfFWpi1MquVdAyjUar5+76PVCmYl" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Old+Standard+TT" /> <h1>King Daniel Ganaway</h1> <img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8083/8332619923_686ee3dcc9_b.jpg"alt="KD Ganaway" class="responsive">> <div> <h3> Self-portrait from the Library of Congress</h3> </div> </div> <p>"I hear so much of King Ganaway, the Chicago photographer who has done marvelous pictures of engines. I hope he'll do the (20th Century Limited) as it pulls out of LaSalle Street on the morning of June 15." — Christopher Morley, Saturday Review of Literature, 1927</p> <p>Christopher Morley, a founder of the Saturday Review of Literature and one of the standout writers of the 1920s, wrote effusively about Ganaway. <div class="notepaper"> <figure class="quote"> <blockquote class="curly-quotes"> The greatest photographer I ever knew. </blockquote> <figcaption class="quote-by">— Fort Dearborn Magazine editor W. Frank McClure</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <P>King Ganaway's story is a classic American rags-to-riches tale, albeit with a sad final act. Born on Oct. 27, 1884, in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ganaway had an affinity for drawing and for religion. After graduating from Howard High School in Chattanooga, he moved to Zion, Illinois in 1902, the far northern Chicago suburb that was founded by Scottish evangelist<br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_Dowie">John Dowie </a></P> </br> <P>Ganaway participated in Dowie's evangelical movement while working as a waiter. He also met Pauline Barrew, probably at Shiloh Tabernacle Church, a rare religious institution where blacks and whites worshiped as equals.</P> <P>The couple married in 1904 and had their only child, Lucille, born in 1906. Soon after, Ganaway found a job as a butler for a wealthy Chicago matron named Mary Lawrence, who lived on the 1200 block of North Lake Shore Drive. While working for Lawrence, Ganaway began teaching himself the art of photography, taking pictures on his one day off every two weeks.</P> <P>This period of self-education culminated with Ganaway's best-known photo, "The Spirit of Transportation," a stylized look at the 20th Century Limited pulling into LaSalle Street Station in February 1918. In a profile in The American Magazine, Ganaway said it took two years to conceive the picture and that he was suspected by a policeman of being a German saboteur while taking the photo.</P> <P>"Finally, I pointed to the beams of light and said, 'Did you ever see anything more beautiful than the way the light falls on the smoke?'" recalled Ganaway, who said the cop soon shared his enthusiasm for the photo.</P> <P>The result was a masterpiece of light and shadow that first appeared in the Chicago Defender in 1921. That same year, the photo became a national phenomenon when it took first prize in the Wanamaker's Department Store National Photographic Contest, beating out offerings from Weston, Ray and Strand — three of the finest photographers of the early 20th Century.</P> <P>Ganaway's career as a photographer took off after that. Forty years before the first black photographers were hired full-time by Chicago's daily newspapers (Chicago's newsrooms were almost exclusively white until the late 1960s), Ganaway was freelancing for such papers as the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Herald-Examiner, while also doing work for periodicals like Fort Dearborn Magazine and National Geographic, along with the Defender, the University of Chicago and numerous industrial periodicals and corporate groups.</P> <p> This text is from a story by John Owens for the Chicago Tribune October 26th 2012.<br> </br> <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-king-ganaway-20121026-story.html">To read the complete story please click here -</a> </p> </body> </html>

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