SOUTH SIDE GROUP OF BLACK CHILDREN IN CHICAGO AT A PLAYGROUND AT 40TH AND DREXEL BOULEVARD, PART OF NEARLY 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE OF THEIR RACE WHO MAKE UP OVER ONE THIRD OF THE CITY’S POPULATION. THEY COMPRISE SEVERAL OF MANY BLACK FACES IN THIS PROJECT THAT PORTRAY PRIDE, LOVE, BEAUTY, HOPE, STRUGGLE, JOY, HATE FRUSTRATION, DISCONTENT, WORSHIP AND FAITH. IN SHORT, PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE WHO FEEL THEY ARE INDIVIDUALS AND ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE – Source
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”.
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“South side group of Black children in Chicago at a playground at 40th and Drexel...”
Artist
Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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