1974

Allegra Berrian, “The Art Corner: Ceramics, Photos on Display at Juniper,” May 1974

1976

Edward Uzemack, “Self Portraits”, Midwest Art 4,5 (October, 1976): 14.
Gretchen Garner, “Self Portraits”, The New Art Examiner 4,2 (November, 1976): 21.
Sandra Hytken, “Measuring the Medium of Photography”, The Reader, Chicago, November 19,1976.
Gretchen Garner, “From museums to galleries, everybody’s doing it”, Afterimage 4,6
(December, 1976):13-14.
Lynne Warren, “Artesimia”, Midwest Art 3,8 (December, 1976): 21-23.

1977

Lincoln F. Johnson, “Nude bodies arranged in unusual context” The Sun, Washington, D.C., May 12.
David Tannous, “Would a Rat be Sur-or-Superreal?/Carole Harmel and Jane Wenger at Intuitiveye Gallery”, Washington Star, May 15.
JoAnn Lewis, “Galleries”, The Washington Post, May 24..
Marcia Kramer, “Nude Photos Cloud- but Ban is Clear,” Chicago Daily News, Friday, June 3.
Henry Hanson, “Art Show Shut In Censorship Spat,” Chicago Daily News, Friday, June 3.
Richard Phillips, “Nude Art Makes Big John Blush,” Chicago Tribune, Friday, June 3, Sect. 1, p.3.
William Braden, “Show stripped of nude photos”, Sun-Times, Chicago, June 4.
Richard Phillips, “Censor Battle Ends Show at Hancock,” Chicago Tribune, Saturday, June 4, Sect.1.
“Hancock Hassle,” Women’s News For a Change. June 13. Vol 1. #3.
“An Original Artist”, The Washington Art Market Letter 1,4 (June):6
Gretchen Garner, “The Photo Co-op after a Year”, The New Art Examiner 4,9 (June):11-12.
Image: “Arts & Fun,” Chicago Tribune (November)
Carole Harmel, “Harold Allen, Jane Wenger”, The New Art Examiner 5.3 (December):18.
Lynne Warren, “Harold Allen Photographs,” Midwest Art (December): 7.

1978

Fred McDarrah, “Jane Wenger”, The Village Voice (March 13, 1978)
Alan G. Artner, “German Photo Exhibit, a Must-See/False Face”, Chicago Tribune, (August 4, 1978)
Barbara Aubin, “False Face, A Mask Exhibition at N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago IL”, Visual Dialog 4, 1  (Fall, 1978):21
EXHIBITION CATALOG: Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945-1978, Edited by Charles A. Lewis and Cynthia Yao. The University of Michigan Museum of Art, March 17-23, 1978

1979

Joel Yale, Creative Camera Techniques: Set 19, The Nude, New York: Random House, #7.
Carole Harmel, “Jane Wenger: The dialectics of sexuality”, The New Art Examiner 6,10 (Summer):7,11
Carole Harmel, “Jane Wenger: The dialectics of sexuality”, reprinted in Afterimage 7,5 (December):12-13.
Roger Rapp, “Uber das Gestique in der fotografie”, Woodstock Times (November 8)
El Nuevo Dia. “Fotografia: Foto Una en PL 900,” Thursday, February 15

1980

Lawrence Barnes, ed. The Male Nude in Photography, Waitsfield, Vermont: Vermont Crossroads Press, 1980
Candida Finkel, “Jane Wenger”’ The New Art Examiner, 7,8 (May, 1980):20.
John Alderson, “Wenger’s Photos Compel, Repel”, The Sun Times, Chicago, April 13, 1980.
David Elliott, “A linguist with a camera, Plowden’s irony is polite/Jane Wenger’s New Work”, The Sun
Times, Chicago, April 13, 1980.

1981

Alan G. Artner, “On the face of it photo exhibit signifies little”, Chicago Tribune, January 30.
Kevin Johnson, “Jane Wenger faces reality”, The Reader, Chicago, January 30.
David Elliott, “Jane Wenger’s New Vision of Hell”, Sun-Times, Chicago, February 15.
Lynne Warren, “Jane Wenger”, Arts Magazine 55,7 (March):8.
Michael Segard, “Sounds Foul Message of Wenger Show,” Evergreen Gazette, March 10.
Barbara Brotman, “New Wrinkles to an Old Tradition at the Luxor Baths,” March 30. 
Carole Harmel, “Fleshly discomfort”, Afterimage 8,9 (April):17-18.
Christina West, “Jane Wenger,” New Art Examiner (May): 19, 21. 
EXHIBITION CATALOG: Mary Jane Jacob, “Jane Wenger: An Environmental Installation”, in Options 7:Jane Wenger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Gerald Nordland, “Jane Wenger Photographs”, Milwaukee Art Museum Photography Gallery, 
(Checklist/essay), Wisconsin
Jack Foran, “Hallwalls Gallery: Art Experiments Varied in Style, Hope of Success,” The Buffalo News, August.
James Auer, Gallery Grazing: Shows Worth Seeing,” The Milwaukee Journal, Sunday, August 30. p.4  part 5. 
Chuck Nicholson, “Contemporary Images-Chicago”, Artweek 12,13 (July 4):11.
Dean Jensen, “Jane Wenger’s Photos Repel While They Attract,” Milwaukee Sentinel, August 14
David Elliot, “Tops in the Arts, 1981: Memories and Musings,” Chicago Sun-times, December 27.

1982

Lynne Warren, “Jane Wenger”, The List, (Independent Curators, Inc.), 1982.

1985

Albert Williams, “Power and Vulnerability in ‘Looking at Men’: The Mystique of Maleness on display at Artemisia Gallery,” Gay Life, February 28, 1985
(Image): Calendar, edited by A.J. Buckingham, The Reader, March 1, 1985

1986

Trystan Garrick, “Artfully Disturbing”, Eye 2,1 (May): 16-17.

1987

Char Sandstrom, “The New Influx, Artists in Wicker Park”, Circa, Jan./Feb., 1987

1992

Bonnie McLaughlin, “Women’s Pictures”, The Reader, Vol.21, no.43, Chicago, July 31, 1992
Joanne Cleaver, “Editor’s Choice”, Crains Chicago, Chicago (July 27,1992)
Mary Sue Mohnke, “Photographs by Women 1930-1980, an eclectic survey”, Chicago Tribune,  August 7, 1992

1994

EXHIBITION CATALOG: Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, by Ann Tucker, et al., Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1994

1996

EXHIBITION CATALOG: Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, 1996
Jeff Huesner, “The In Crowd”, The Reader, Vol25, no.5, Chicago, November 1, 1996

1997

Richard Viuk, “Chicago Art, 1945-1995, Where The Wild Things Were”, Art in America, (May, 1997)

2006

Laura Putre, “The Poetics of Space,” Chicago Journal, January 5, 2006

2008

EXHIBITION CATALOG: First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, Selctions from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, by Joshua Chuang, Yale University Art Gallery, 2008

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