DETERIORATED WALL MURAL ADJACENT TO A VACANT LOT ON 35TH STREET IN SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO. MANY BLACK ARTISTS ARE ACTIVE IN PAINTING OUTDOOR MURALS IN THE CITY’S BLACK COMMUNITIES. THEY FEEL IT IS A MEANS OF SHARING ART WITH PEOPLE OF THE GHETTO WHO NEVER GO TO THE MUSEUMS
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…
“Deteriorated wall mural adjacent to a vacant lot on 35th Street in South Side...”
Artist
Date
1973–4
From
Documerica
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