My Florence
  • Published: 15 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806248
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $34.00
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My Florence

A 70-Year Love Story

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70 years of marriage and true love from one of the world's great photojournalists.

My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as 20-year-old camp counselors in the Catskill Mountains, and continue for seven decades.

Former LIFE, Fortune, Time, and Sports Illustrator photographer, ART SHAY is famous for immortalizing some of America's most compelling 20th century figures, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Eleanor Roosevelt. But the story of Florence was Shay's constant beat. The result is a story that runs deep and reads as a call to joy and source of inspiration for lovers, family, friends, and the photographer in us all.
  • Published: 15 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806248
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $34.00
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Praise for My Florence

"Art Shay is an American original whose photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head, and then kicks you in the ass." --Roger Ebert

"Art Shay's writing, and his photos, have the Chicago accent, which may be to say he's telling you the truth as he knows it, as what right-thinking person would consider doing anything else?" --David Mamet