BLACK FAMILY AT THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE FOR THE BABY'S BAPTISM

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”.

“Black family at the Church of the Messiah on Chicago’s south side for the baby's...”

Artist

Date

1973–4

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Documerica


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Public Domain GOV

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No Additional Rights


Image Size

1011 x 1500

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