BLACK YOUTHS PLAY BASKETBALL AT STATEWAY GARDENS’ HIGHRISE HOUSING PROJECT ON CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE, THE COMPLEX HAS EIGHT BUILDINGS WITH 1,633 TWO AND THREE BEDROOM APARTMENTS HOUSING 6,825 PERSONS, THEY WERE BUILT UNDER THE U.S. HOUSING ACTS OF 1949 AND 1968 THEY ARE MANAGED BY THE CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 41,500 PUBLIC HOUSING DWELLINGS
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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“Black youths play basketball at Stateway Gardens’ highrise housing project on Chicago's...”
Artist
Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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