BOSTON (WHDH) – It’s Sunday afternoon in Franklin Park, 1974. The soothing sounds of a man playing the saxophone fill the air. A group of young Black men sit in calm communion, while the photographer stays hidden, just behind the lens.
“He’s able to enter the world of a person on the street, or a child on a window, but enter it without imposing himself,” Boston Athenaeum curator Lauren Graves said.
But Graves says the photograph reveals something even more. Photographer Constantine Manos also provides a snapshot into Boston’s segregated shared spaces in the 1970s…