BLACK ART AND CULTURE WAS ONE OF THE THEMES AT THE ANNUAL BLACK EXPO HELD IN CHICAGO. ALSO PRESENT WERE BLACK PRODUCTS EDUCATION, TALENT, A VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE AND OTHER ASPECTS OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS. THE AIM IS TO MAKE BLACKS AWARE OF THEIR HERITAGE AND CAPABILITIES, AND HELP THEM TOWARDS A BETTER LIFE
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 art and culture was one of the themes at the annual Black Expo held in...”
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Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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