Allan L. Edmunds, Playtime: Inner City

Edmunds discusses the creation of this print in the exhibition catalogue for Woodmere's 2015-2016 exhibition, We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s–1970s: “I was working with photography at the time and combined different images to build the composition. They reflect my interest in depicting children at play in the neighborhoods around Philadelphia, usually without parks, playgrounds, and play apparatuses. You were lucky if you had a bike. Back then, inner-city kids were more likely to use chalk to make games in the street like hopscotch and dead block, or to play wire-ball, half ball, and wall ball. The print is part of a series, Early Years, Playtime: Inner City.”