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Photographs

BY Diana Solís

Originally Published: December 01, 2022

The photographs featured in this portfolio are a selection from Diana Solís: Encuentros, Photographs of Chicago Poetry Communities, 1978–1994, curated by Oscar Arriola and Nicole Marroquin, on view at the Poetry Foundation through January 14, 2023.  

Librería Nuestro Continente, Blue Island Avenue, Pilsen, circa 1972.

 

Anthony Aguilera at Weeds, 1993.

 

Diana Avila and Carlos Cumpián at Gads Hill in Pilsen, 1981.

  

Sandra Cisneros, 1981.

 

Diana Solís, 1981.

 

Diane Gomez in Marengo, Illinois, 1979.

 

Performer reading at HotHouse, 1992.

 

José Bono reading at La Decima Musa, 1994.

 

Marta Collazo, poet and firefighter, 1990.

 

Diana Solís reading a poem for her mother at La Decima Musa, 1994.

 

Sandra Cisneros, 1989.

 

Performer at the Chicago Poetry Festival at Navy Pier, 1992.

 

Marguerite Horberg, director of HotHouse, 1992.

 

Donna Moffett with Nancy Finke, cofounder of Jane Addams Bookstore, circa 1981.

 

Gregorio Gomez, circa 1994.

 

David Hernandez, 1992.

 

Salima Rivera, 1978.

 

Achy Obejas at “Venceremos Mujer!” a feminist event in Elgin, Illinois, 1983.

 

Carlos Cortez at the Chicago Poetry Festival at Navy Pier, 1992.

 

Salima Rivera, Chuy Negrete, and Lilian Anguiano at José Gonzalez and Mary Kay’s wedding, 1977.

 

These photographs are part of the portfolio “Wholly Seen: The Work of Diana Solís” from the December 2022 issue of Poetry. Read the rest of the portfolio here.

Diana Solís is a Chicago icon who has been working as an artist, photojournalist, and community-based educator for almost half a century. She was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, in 1956, and she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She lives in Pilsen.

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