Beatrice Tonnesen – Photographer & Artist

If you’ve read Geoff Johnson’s feature on Beatrice Tonnesen in the current (March) issue of Chicago Magazine, or listened to his WBEZ interview, you know that we have learned a great deal about Tonnesen’s work from the descendants of Tonnesen’s models.  In most cases, it seems, a great-aunt or a grandmother, or maybe a dimly-remembered [...]

Today on the WBEZ Chicago Public Radio program Eight Forty-Eight, director and resident photographer Jason Marck talked with journalist Geoffrey Johnson about Beatrice Tonnesen’s life. Johnson tells the Beatrice Tonnesen story in the March issue of Chicago magazine (soon on the newsstand and later on the web). A podcast is available.