Portrait of a Young Intellectual: Mauro Calamandrei, University of Chicago Student Photo ID, 1952 drawing of young man and paint on paper

and paint on paper

but if the other side was painted it has long since worn off

making it even more unusual

Dated 1959

and also seems like a handy thing to have in the tool arsenal

Portrait of a Young Intellectual: Mauro Calamandrei, University of Chicago Student Photo ID, 1952 drawing of young man and paint on paperI purchased this 1952 photo ID card because I liked the looks of him, and the fact that he was from Florence and had come to the University of Chicago to study I imagined a young architect wanting to immerse in Mies van der Rohe. (I love photo ID cards for this reason, providing just the right combination of information to imagine whole lives.) But as I was uploading photos here I decided to search for him, and turns out his real life was even more