For 68 years, Mitch Rieger traveled the world photographing people, places and things.
This collection of his photographic insights chronicles his journeys through the United States and Canada, Mexico, British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Panama, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, B.C.C., and Japan.
Managing partner Ron Safer says, "Mitch has graced Schiff Hardin using another of his extraordinary talents. Our walls are replete with photographs taken by Mitch Rieger. Each captures the soul of its subject in a way that reflects Mitch's rare insight into humanity. He could have built a career as an artist. Our firm, our clients and our partners are grateful he used photography as a hobby, not a vocation."
Rieger's book, Faces and Places is for sale online and will be featured at the event.
Panoramic photographer Paul Lurie specializes in contemporary film based photographs of farm landscapes.
He began taking pictures as a high school student in 1956 where he worked on his school's yearbook, as a wedding photographer, and a darkroom technician. Despite his long history with photography he only began publicly showing his work five years ago, taking a special fondness to the farm landscapes of Door County, Wisconsin.
"I try to coax the aging beauty out of these forgotten rural structures," said Lurie. "The vivid color of my work confronts the viewer, forcing them to look in a new way at what we had dismissed as mundane buildings."
Lurie's images are on the walls at St.Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York; the Family Institute at Northwestern University and soon to be at the Renker Pavilion, Eisenhower Hospital, Rancho Mirage, California. His work will be featured in an exhibit this September at the Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wisconsin entitled "The Cultural Landscapes of Rural Door County."
Jack A. Jaffe has been photographing his surroundings for the past 46 years, splitting his time between Chicago, and Bozeman, Montana.
In Chicago he is a street photographer, recording life in a very busy city. In Montana he shoots the space, vast, silent and exquisite. Jaffe's work can be found in The Art Institute of Chicago collection, the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, Columbia College's Museum of Contemporary Photography collection, the Stein Roe Collection, the David & Sara Jean Ruttenberg collection, the Israel Museum — Jerusalem, LaSalle Bank — Chicago collection, Lannan Fund collection, and in various private collections.
The Art Collection at Schiff Hardin
The Schiff Hardin collection began in 1963 with loans and occasional purchases from one of the city's prominent art galleries (owned by Shirly Hardin, wife of name partner Louis S. Hardin.) The collection significantly expanded with the firm's move to the Sears Tower in 1974, with a collecting effort led by partner Lawrence Block and his wife Abby, who commissioned and acquired work from local artists, art fairs, and galleries.
Today the collection contains more than 800 works of art, including paintings, photography, watercolors, works on paper, textiles and sculpture. The variety of the collection on display in the conference rooms and corridors of the office reflects a rich diversity of styles, talents and tastes, and enriches the lives of all of us who work here.
