Chicago

Chicago also has fine backstreet art, particularly in alleys
surrounded by redbrick buildings. More later.

-- Edward Tufte

Source: SWANN auction catalogue, The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, New York, May 5, 2009.

-- Edward Tufte

Absolutely wonderful! I have found myself drawn to (alley/abandoned building, etc.) images such as these throughout my entire life. I'm really glad to know that you appreciate them as works of design. We have a lot of them here too in Atlanta, I used many of them when I was in photography classes.

-- Katie Bell Foster (email)

Here's some not so abstract alley art found by the design and typographer Erik Spiekermann.

http://spiekermann.com/en/numerous-numbers/

Matt

-- matt R (email)

Alley Art video

-- Edward Tufte

Frank Jump

For the great photographs of Frank Jump, see

http://www.fadingad.com/fadingadblog/?p=815

and about his book Fading Ads of New York City

http://wordbrooklyn.com/event/fading-ads-greenpoint-walking-tour

-- Edward Tufte

Thank you for the mention! Hope you enjoy the book. Best, Frank Jump

-- Frank Jump (email)