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Ron Tarver
Double Dutch #37: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

1988

About the Item

This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot of the Diamonettes, a gravity-defying Double-Dutch team from North Philadelphia whose ages range from grade-school girls to teenagers. The team carries this enduring legacy of Black girlhood. This series was originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 15, 1988. This photograph is sold individually, but other available photographs in the series are also posted in this listing. I will combine shipping for multiple purchases within this series. Ron Tarver is a professor of Studio Art specializing in Photography at Swarthmore College. He served as staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, and his work has appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Black and White Magazine. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins in 2004, which was accompanied by a traveling exhibition. Tarver shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize at the Inquirer for his work on a series documenting school violence in the Philadelphia public school system, and was nominated for a second Pulitzer in 2013 for a series exploring dog-training programs in prisons. A recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts, he has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as an Independence Foundation Fellowship, and is a current Guggenheim Fellow. He was named one of the Delaware Valley's "50 Rising Stars in the Arts" by Seven Arts Magazine and is a Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in over 30 solo and 50 group exhibitions and is included in many private, corporate, and museum collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Oklahoma Museum of History, and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Tarver offers private photography instruction, workshops, and photo excursions through his company, Photo-Ops.
  • Creator:
    Ron Tarver (1957, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1988
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1416210029012
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