YOUNGSTERS RETURNING TO CLASS FOLLOWING A FIRE DRILL IN A CHICAGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. FIRE DRILLS ASSUME A GREATER IMPORTANCE IN THE GHETTO SCHOOLS WHERE AREA BUILDINGS ARE MORE VULNERABLE TO VANDALISM AND FIRE. NOTE THE VACANT BUILDING WITH BROKEN WINDOWS IN THE BACKGROUND
Featured on PDR in the collection John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
It’s hard not to read John H. White’s DOCUMERICA series as a love letter to Black Chicago. Whether capturing protesters or checkers players, concerts or chores, White’s work feels animated by a wonder and curiosity for the great breadth of stories and characters he encountered while exploring his adopted home city — “life”, as he put it in the captions to several of his images, “in all its seasons”.
Also appearing in the collection…
“Youngsters returning to class following a fire drill in a Chicago elementary school....”
Artist
Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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