BLACK GHETTO CHILD SAVORS A SNOW CONE JUST RECEIVED FROM A SIDEWALK VENDOR ON CHICAGO’S WEST SIDE. THIS PORTION OF THE CITY WAS HARD HIT BY RIOTS AND FIRES IN THE MID AND LATE 1960'S AND WAS SLOW TO RECOVER. HELP CAME WHEN BLACK BUSINESSMEN, WITH FEDERAL HELP REACHED AN AGREEMENT WITH SEVERAL NATIONAL FRANCHISES WHICH RESULTED IN $20 MILLION WORTH OF JOBS TO RESIDENTS BY 1974
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 ghetto child savors a snow cone just received from a sidewalk vendor on Chicago’s West…”
Artist
Date
1973–4
From
Documerica
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