BLACK YOUNGSTER TAKING OUT THE TRASH ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE. HE IS ONE OF NEARLY 1.2 MILLION OF HIS RACE WHO MAKE UP MORE THAN A THIRD OF THE POPULATION OF CHICAGO. IT IS ONE OF MANY BLACK FACES IN THIS PROJECT THAT PORTRAY LIFE IN ALL ITS SEASONS. IN SHORT THEY ARE PORTRAITS OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE INDIVIDUALS AND ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE
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 youngster taking out the trash on Chicago’s South Side. He is one of nearly...”
Artist
Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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