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Ken Rehor: Lyons, Illinois, November 8,
1979.
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FREE and
ONLINE
Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 5:30-7:00 pm CDT
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There will be a Q&A
session after the lecture. Audience
participation is invited.
Be
sure to have your cocktails and
cigars at ready hand.
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Cigar Society member Ken
Rehor has been photographing the
world around him for more than forty
years. Initially it was his love of trains
that drew him to photography, as he tried
to capture the model trains he was
building. Ken writes, "My futile first
attempts motivated me to understand what
makes certain photographs visually
arresting. Along the way I learned how to
see, and tell stories, via lighting,
composition, and motion." This
discussion explores a Midwestern
teenager's photographic education from the
some of the finest photographers in the
world, as he taught himself through the
pages of magazines and books.
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Ken
Rehor has been fascinated
with trains since before he could
speak. First there was his
father’s pre-war Lionel train
under the Christmas tree. Then
there was an epic family journey
on the Super Chief to Los
Angeles. Model trains eventually
led to model train photographs,
and then to teaching himself
photography from the pages of Trains
Magazine and railroad
history books. Stints as a
photojournalist for his high
school and college newspapers
cemented his love of storytelling
through images. Ken is a
telecommunications and speech
technology expert currently
working at Cisco Systems, where he
is merging traditional telephone
services with the latest AI
technologies to bring people
together via online collaboration
tools such as Cisco's Webex
multimedia conferencing service.
He is a veteran, in various
capacities (from Member of
Technical Staff to CTO) at Bell
Labs, Enuncia, Nuance, and
Vocalocity. Ken has BS and MS
degrees from the University of
Illinois at Chicago in electrical
engineering.
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About
the
Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND
greatest traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of intellectual,
social, legal, artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and extends it
with its Informal Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which cigars,
and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important
component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the
Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the
secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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