Photos From 1979 Of Kids Playing On Bucktown Streets Focus Of New Exhibit. Are You Among Them?

Photos From 1979 Of Kids Playing On Bucktown Streets Focus Of New Exhibit. Are You Among Them?

BUCKTOWN — In spring 1979, as the city was thawing from the great Blizzard of ’79, 24-year-old Columbia College Chicago student Ray Reiss needed a project for his class with acclaimed photographer and Columbia professor Brian Katz.“I thought of myself as something of a rebel,” Reiss recently said. “Doing interior shots of still lifes with flowers just wasn’t me.”Instead, Reiss took his “fun toy” — a Calumet 4×5 monorail view camera, with tripod …