BLACK YOUNGSTERS PERFORMING ON AN EMPTY LOT AT 5440 SOUTH PRINCETON AVENUE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE AT A SMALL COMMUNITY PROGRAM CALLED “AN OPEN AIR FASHION AND TALENT SHOW” PRESENTED BY “THE NEW BETWEEN THE TRACKS COUNCIL”, A COMMUNITY BLOCK GROUP. IT IS ONE OF MANY BLOCK CLUBS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS ORGANIZED TO HELP YOUNGSTERS “DO THEIR THING” DURING SPECIAL WEEKEND PROGRAMS IN EMPTY LOTS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITIES
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…
“Black youngsters performing on an empty lot at 5440 South Princeton Avenue on Chicago’s South…”
Artist
Date
1973–4
From
Documerica
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