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Gone
But Not Forgotten features poignant documentary-style photographs
taken between 1945 and 1953 of people and activities associated
with Flanner House, a social service agency located on the near
west-side of Indianapolis. In post WW II times, Flanner House offered
programs such as child care, recreation, crafts, food preparation,
sewing and building trades to African-Americans who lived in the
community.
A tall, lanky white man from Ohio,
Fox was assigned by a Quaker-affiliated service organization to
photo-document Flanner House and its nearby neighborhood alleys
and streets as part of a slum-clearance project. His photographs
feature buildings, homes, families, and especially children, and
captured such stark images as dilapidated structures and trash,
contrasted to children fishing and a centenarian growing old gracefully.
Fox also wrote poetry, and the exhibition includes poems written
about the neighborhood and its people.
For more detailed information
and to view many of the images in this exhibit, see the O.
James Fox Collection.
Requires approximately
70 linear feet of wall space. Borrower is responsible for hanging
the exhibit and taking it down after the show.
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