Bartender Mike Scheffer pages through a high school year book at the Big Street Bar & Grill in Humbird as Alessandra Sanguinetti frames an image inside the establishment of a bison mount above the front door.
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Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti at the Humbird Hotel Bar & Grill. She's been coming to Wisconsin since 2014.
Photographs captured by photographer Charles Van Schaick in the late 1800s and early 1900s are displayed at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, which has thousands of his glass plate negatives and printed images. Some of his work was published in "Wisconsin Death Trip," seen below the prints.
Among the images taken in Wisconsin since 2014 by Alessandra Sanguinetti is this youth choir at St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown Black River Falls. Sanguinetti will publish a book this fall containing black-and-white images from her travels in Wisconsin.
Over the past eight years Alessandra Sanguinetti has been trying to capture with her camera the people of Wisconsin. One of those images is of Kenosha County dairy farmers Rick, Doug and Andrew Spoerlein.
"Wisconsin Death Trip" was published in 1973 and created by Michael Lesy, who used the photographs of Charles Van Schaick, of Black River Falls.
Glass plate negatives captured by 19th century photographer Charles Van Schaick are displayed on a light table at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.
Tim Ream, a visual materials archivist with the Wisconsin Historical Society, looks over some of the thousands of glass plate negatives and printed images of Black River Falls photographer Charles Van Schaick.
Alessandra Sanguinetti carries her equipment through a second-floor hallway of the historic Humbird Hotel Bar & Grill. Sanguinetti, a member of Magnum Photos, a cooperative in New York, was in Humbird to continue her work of black-and-white photography. As a child in Argentina, she was inspired by "Wisconsin Death Trip," a book published in 1973 containing images by Black River Falls photographer Charles Van Schaick.
Alessandra Sanguinetti approaches the Big Street Bar & Grill while pursuing photo possibilities in Humbird, a small rural community about 20 miles north of Black River Falls.
One of Alessandra Sanguinetti's photos over the past eight years was at Hixton Ridge Taxidermy along Interstate 94 between Hixton and Black River Falls.
Photos: Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti shoots Wisconsin
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Alessandra Sanguinetti frames an image inside the Big Street Bar & Grill in Humbird, Wis., Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Over the past eight years Alessandra Sanguinetti has been trying to capture with her camera the people of Wisconsin. One of those images is of Kenosha County dairy farmers Rick, Doug and Andrew Spoerlein.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Among the images taken in Wisconsin since 2014 by Alessandra Sanguinetti is this youth choir at St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown Black River Falls. Sanguinetti will publish a book this fall containing black-and-white images from her travels in Wisconsin.
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Jeff in Melrose, Wis.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti at the Humbird Hotel Bar & Grill. She's been coming to Wisconsin since 2014.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Bartender Mike Scheffer pages through a high school year book at the Big Street Bar & Grill in Humbird as Alessandra Sanguinetti frames an image inside the establishment of a bison mount above the front door.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti approaches the Big Street Bar & Grill while pursuing photo possibilities in Humbird, a small rural community about 20 miles north of Black River Falls.
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Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti, pictured outside her temporary room at the Humbird Hotel in Humbird, Wis., Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Alessandra Sanguinetti
"Wisconsin Death Trip" was published in 1973 and created by Michael Lesy, who used the photographs of Charles Van Schaick, of Black River Falls.
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Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti, outside the Humbird Hotel in Humbird, Wis., Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Glass plate negatives captured by 19th century photographer Charles Van Schaick are displayed on a light table at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.
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Copy of the the 1973 book, “Wisconsin Death Trip” by Michael Lesy at the State Historical Society in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Alessandra Sanguinetti
One of Alessandra Sanguinetti's photos over the past eight years was at Hixton Ridge Taxidermy along Interstate 94 between Hixton and Black River Falls.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Tim Ream, a visual materials archivist with the Wisconsin Historical Society, looks over some of the thousands of glass plate negatives and printed images of Black River Falls photographer Charles Van Schaick.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
A piano player at Black River Falls High School.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Photographs captured by photographer Charles Van Schaick in the late 1800s and early 1900s are displayed at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, which has thousands of his glass plate negatives and printed images. Some of his work was published in "Wisconsin Death Trip," seen below the prints.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti carries her equipment through a second-floor hallway of the historic Humbird Hotel Bar & Grill. Sanguinetti, a member of Magnum Photos, a cooperative in New York, was in Humbird to continue her work of black-and-white photography. As a child in Argentina, she was inspired by "Wisconsin Death Trip," a book published in 1973 containing images by Black River Falls photographer Charles Van Schaick.
Barry Adams covers regional news for the Wisconsin State Journal. Send him ideas for On Wisconsin at 608-252-6148 or by email at badams@madison.com.
