CLOSEUP OF A BLACK BEAUTY GRACING A FLOAT DURING THE ANNUAL BUD BILLIKEN DAY PARADE ALONG DR. MARTIN L. KING JR. DRIVE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE. UP TO A HALF MILLION PEOPLE VIEW ONE OF THE LARGEST EVENTS OF THE YEAR, HELD FOR BLACKS OF ALL AGES AND ECONOMIC STATUS. THE PARADE ALSO INCLUDES BLACK POLITICIANS, BLACK BUSINESSES DISPLAYING THEIR PRODUCTS AND BLACK BANDS
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…
“Closeup of a Black beauty gracing a float during the annual Bud Billiken Day Parade along…”
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Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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