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[Polish Class]

Description: Photograph of pairs of children spinning and dancing at the Polish National Alliance Hall. "Bernice Clark" is signed in the lower left corner of the image.
Date: March 1958
Creator: Clark, Bernice & Clark, Joe

[Mountain Boy with Rifle]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell in the woods. In this image, Powell, with his body facing away from the camera, is holding a rifle looking back and up over his shoulder. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Jimmy Powell: Mountain Boy]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell holding a large rifle with a dog along a fence line. In the image the boy is surveying the farmland in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of what Joe recalled his life to be. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0058-33
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Faces of Christmas]

Description: Photograph of a unknown girl with Santa at Crowley's. In the image the back of Santa's head takes up the left of the frame while looking at a little girl in a striped dress and large bow. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7843-0001-10 mounted on wood
Date: December 2, 1959
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Children in the Detroit Institute of Arts]

Description: Photograph of a boy and a girl looking for places to put their art on the ground in a hallway of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Mounted pieces line the hallway walls, whereas the children's work is placed along the ground. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0025-22
Date: October 1955
Creator: Clark, Bernice & Clark, Joe

[Aerial Photo of Detroit Skyline]

Description: Photograph of Detroit, Michigan out of an airplane window. Dark clouds and the moon have been superimposed above the city, and the wing of the airplane is visible on the right side of the image. Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo is the cover image of the Joe Clark book, "Detroit: God's Greatest City" Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7800-111
Date: 1959
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Detroit Neighborhood 1959]

Description: Photograph of a neighborhood street in Detroit, Michigan. In this image, a line of cars is parked along the street in front of a row of similar-looking houses. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographed with a 35mm Leica camera and a 400mm lens. Joe was a master of getting a hold of new or rare camera equipment and lenses and then using them to illustrate stories in dramatic ways. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7800-0046-33
Date: 1959
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Slingshot Johnny Milligan takes aim with his Milligan Special]

Description: Slingshot John Milligan takes aim with his Milligan Special and prepares to fire. John Milligan, a machinist in Detroit, Michigan who was also the “country’s greatest slingshot expert. “He won local fame by shooting the marks out of playing cards, hitting objects in mid air and bagging game in the field.” Joe took John national with his photos documenting his talent and accuracy. To assure accuracy, he has designed his own precision-built aluminum sling, called the Milligan Special. Additional … more
Date: March 22, 1952
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Detroit Skyline in Winter 1959]

Description: Photograph of Detroit Skyline in 1959. This picture is part of Joe Clark's "Detroit" series. It is taken from the Windsor, Canada side o the Detroit River. Ice can be seen floading in the water. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7800-134
Date: August 1959
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Boy on Farm]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified boy working on a farm in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee during the 1950's. He holds a pile of sorguhm cane, and a horse stands behind him. Here he is running sorgum cane through a press to extract the juice to be boiled down at the Mollassess Stir-off. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS.
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Receiving Water Rations]

Description: Photograph of men, woman, and children receiving two cartons of Drinking Water from the back of a truck. In the image, a line has formed for the cartons where two men inside the truck are handling the crates, a mother is consoling a crying baby in her arms, another mother, wearing bandages on her face, is fixing her son's pants. Two men and an injured woman are walking with their rations towards the camera. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Water Delivery to Florida Hurricane Disaster Victims (Re-c… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe

[High-Contrast Winter Skiers]

Description: Photograph of a group of winter skiers clustered into small groups, and taken in such a high contrast as to make the skiers appear to be comprised of only white and black shapes. "Joe Clark, H.B.S.S." is signed in the bottom right corner of the image. Narrative by Junebug Clark: This print is an "Impro" a technique developed by Joe that dropped mid-tones from the final photographic print. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7367-8
Date: January 30, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Mountain Boy]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell standing outside with a rifle, possibly in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Fog and mountains can be seen in the background. A poem titled "The Call of the Mountains" is typed beneath the photo on the mat. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe

[Falling Rain]

Description: Photograph of water droplets. In the image, the fast moving droplets look like multiple flying saucers against a black backdrop. Narrative by Junebug Clark: One image out of a series of test images on how to capture Jack Daniel's Whiskey being Charcoal-Mellowed "drop by drop." Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7312
Date: October 19, 1956
Creator: Clark, Joe
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