ARTIST RON BLACKBURN PAINTING AN OUTDOOR WALL MURAL AT THE CORNER OF 33RD AND GILES STREETS IN CHICAGO. HE IS ONE OF MANY ARTISTS PAINTING IN THE CITY’S BLACK COMMUNITIES. THE ARTISTS FEEL IT IS A MEANS OF SHARING ART WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE GHETTO WHO DON'T GO TO THE CITY'S 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”.
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“Artist Ron Blackburn painting an outdoor wall mural at the corner of 33rd and...”
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Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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