Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: ca. 1977-05
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.103236

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: homes; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; stamped: Photo and copyright / Henning Christoph / Fuererbachstrasse 5//7 / 4300 Essen 1 – Germany / Telefon 01 01 // 73 11 27 + 79 80 89 / Konto: Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postscheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438; typed label: [illeg.] // 5 / [illeg.] Janeiro, BRAZIL…May-June 1977…In one of Rio’s / [illeg.] crowded “favelas,” poor people who have been ordered by / government to clear out – on grounds that their homes / [illeg.] threatened by a huge rock on the hillside—load their / belongings onto trucks. The evacuation, ordered by the / government without a through as to where the people should / [illeg.] afterwards, caused intense resentment among Rio’s poor ; handwritten: C 6471//5

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / HOMES SLUMS
Retouching: N