In Photos: Chicago Nightclubs in the 1970s

‘Michael liked this photo because the train was full of white people,’ Midge Wilson, Abramson’s long-time partner, told Chicago Magazine. ‘For them, [whizzing through the South Side] was a voyeuristic, safe kind of experience. And for Michael, it was real. He was there’

Abramson went on to have a successful career in photojournalism, photographing Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and Steve Jobs for Time, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications

He became known for quirky conceits – a portrait of Kellogg’s executives, for example, featured them eating bowls of cereal in the company boardroom