Call#: 2002.0256 PPL
Title: Indivisible Project photographs of Chicagoans
Date: 1999.
Accession#: 2002.0256.2-47
Restrictions: See below.
Storage:
2002.0256 PPL: 20 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in.
and 55 photomechanical prints : postcards ; 4 x 6 in.
2002.0256 PCLF: 25 transparencies : col. ; 35 mm. in cold storage.
Summary:
Includes photographs of Chicago residents who were interviewed and photographed as participants in the national documentary project named: Indivisible--an exploration of community life and action in America. Collection shows activists from organizations including the Community Justice Initiative, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network, Latino Organization of the Southwest, Prison Action Committee, Southwest Youth Collaborative, and West Englewood Youth and Teen Center. Includes 20 silver gelatin photoprints by Dawoud Bey.
The Chicago Historical Society is the official Chicago-area repository for the section of the Indivisible Project book and exhibit, "Indivisible: Stories of American Community," that explored the Southwest Youth Collaborative, which serves West Englewood, Chicago Lawn, Gage Park, West Lawn, and Elsdon in Chicago. Dawoud Bey is a Chicago-based photographer.
Restrictions:
Advance appointment required to view materials in cold storage.
Credit photographer and project. Copyright retained by photographer Dawoud Bey (contributing photographer) and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Photographs from the collection may be reproduced only for non-commercial uses.
Notes:
Gift of the Indivisible Project and its sponsors: Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona in 2002 (2002.0256.2-47).
Related manuscript documentation, sound recordings of interviews, and a copy of the book are in the collections of the Chicago Historical Society.
Some items published in: Local Heroes Changing American : Indivisible, by Tom Rankin and Ray Suarez (New York: Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton & Company, 2000).
Collection processed by Leigh Moran, 2003.
Subject Headings Used in the On-line Catalog:
Community Justice Initiative (Chicago, Ill.)
Greater Lawn Community Youth Network (Chicago, Ill.)
Latino Organization of the Southwest (Chicago, Ill.)
Prison Action Committee (Chicago, Ill.)
Southwest Youth Collaborative (Chicago, Ill.)
West Englewood Youth and Teen Center (Chicago, Ill.)
Community organization--Illinois--Chicago.
Community service--Illinois--Chicago--1990-1999.
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--1990-1999.
Hispanic Americans--Illinois--Chicago--1990-1999.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--1990-1999.
Film transparencies--Color.
Photographic prints.
Photomechanical prints.
Portrait photographs.
Postcards.
Silver gelatin prints.
Bey, Dawoud, photographer.
Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies
University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography
Indivisible (Project)
Container list:
2002.0256 PPL:
20 photoprints : 11 x 14 in. by Dawoud Bey, 1999:
1)Danyale Sims, West Englewood, Youth and Teen Center (close-up)
2)Danyale Sims, West Englewood, Youth and Teen Center (3/4 view)
3) Dowua Abed, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
4) Trenton Moffett, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
5) Camille Odeh, Southwest Youth Collaborative
6) Alma Iris Montes, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
7) Colette Rhodes, Community Justice Initiative
8) Raquel Garcia II, Community Justice Initiative
9) Hector Rico, Latino Organization of the Southwest
10) Andrea Shields, Community Justice Initiative (smiling, teeth exposed)
11) Andrea Shields, Community Justice Initiative (not smiling)
12) Andrea Shields, Community Justice Initiative (hand on head)
13) Aron Hanson, Community Justice Initiative (looking away)
14) Aron Hanson, Community Justice Initiative (face forward)
15) Janette Maldonado, Community Justice Initiative (looking away)
16) Janette Maldonado, Community Justice Initiative (face forward)
17) Adriana Bartow, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
18) Wenona Thompson, Prison Action Committee
19) Vanessa Rodriguez, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
20) Darrin McPherson, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center
55 postcards: photomechanical prints.
A complete set of postcards from the traveling museum exhibition: "Indivisible: Stories of American Community."
2002.0256 PCLF:
25 transparencies: col. ; 35 mm. in cold storage (reproductions of b&w photoprints by Dawoud Bey, 1999)
Twenty three of these transparencies correspond to reproductions in the book, "Local Heroes: Changing America." The other 2 are unidentified, but attributed to the photographer Dawoud Bey.
1) Aron Hanson, Community Justice Initiative
2) Trenton Moffett, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
3) Danyale Sims, West Englewood, Youth and Teen Center
4) Dowua Abed, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
5) Camille Odeh, Southwest Youth Collaborative
6) Alma Iris Montes, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
7) Carlos Vega, Prison Action Committee
8) Andrea Shields, Community Justice Initiative
9) Sherry Brown, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center
10) Keith Hopkins, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center
11) Geoffrey Banks, Community Justice Initiative
12) Barbara Echols, Prison Action Committee
13) Colette Rhodes, Community Justice Initiative
14) Raquel Garcia II, Community Justice Initiative
15) Hector Rico, Latino Organization of the Southwest
16) Janette Maldonado, Community Justice Initiative
17) Sylvester Carrizales, Community Justice Initiative
18) James Hollins, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center
19) Adriana Bartow, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
20) Wenona Thompson, Prison Action Committee
21) Jonathan Peck, Community Justice Initiative
22) Vanessa Rodriguez, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network
23) Darrin McPherson, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center
24) Unidentified boy, cropped through forehead
25) Unidentifed boy seated in chair