Danny Lyon
1974, August
Two youths in uptown, Chicago, Illinois, a neighborhood of poor white southerners

Colour photograph
National Archives and Records Administration
Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (ARC Identifier 555950 / Local Identifier 412-DA-13498)
 
Two youths in uptown, Chicago, Illinois, a neighborhood of poor white southerners. The inner city today is an absolute contradiction to the main stream America of gas stations expressways, shopping centers and tract homes. It is populated by blacks, latins and the white poor. Some of the best American architecture survives in her "worst" neighborhoods, only because it hasn't been demolished.
 
Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, compiled 1972 - 1977
 
LL/50023