“Michael liked this photo because the train was full of white people,” recalls Midge Wilson, Abramson’s longtime partner. Abramson/courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Photography The Patio Lounge, 1977 And the guy is like, ‘Get this picture over with.’ ” Photo: Michael L. “There would be somebody who would shoot your picture. “The wicker chair used to be a thing at clubs and concerts,” says Tom Lunt, who edited Light: On the South Side. Abramson/courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Photography Perv’s House, 1976 “In some cases, it really was necessary to look up someone’s dress to be sure of gender,” Abramson wrote in his 1977 IIT thesis about the photos and scene. Wilson and Lunt suspect the figure in the foreground was prepping for a cross-dressing fashion show.
“Perv’s House was the Cadillac of the clubs I visited-like a Playboy Club for the South Side,” Abramson, who captured the scene with his Leica camera, wrote in Light: On the South Side.
