Black Panther series : Angela Davis speaking in DeFremery Park, Oakland
- Title
- Black Panther series : Angela Davis speaking in DeFremery Park, Oakland / Stephen Shames.
- Published by
- 2004.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 1 photographic print : gelatin silver, black and white; 28 x 36 cm
- Summary
- View of political activist Angela Davis speaking at a Black Panther Party rally for George Jackson and the other Soledad Brothers who were accused of murdering a prison guard at Soledad (Calif.) Correctional Facility. The rally was held in DeFremery Park, in the neighborhood of West Oakland, Oakland, California, 1969. Next to Davis is party member James Burford.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 2000-2009.
- Gelatin silver prints – 2000-2009.
- Call number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Shames, S.)
- Note
- Title taken from photo caption.
- Photograph bears handwritten caption on verso; image is dated 1969.
- Image captured in 1969, and printed in 2004.
- Terms of use (note)
- Image is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Stephen Shames, born 1947 in Cambridge, Mass., is an American photojournalist whose work has been used to raise awareness on social issues, particularly child poverty and race. He is noted for his documentation of the Black Panther Party, in Oakland, Calif., (1967-1973); his work on child poverty in the United States (1984-1989) and the follow-up project to document community solutions to child poverty (1994-1996); and ongoing projects on child poverty in other countries, the effects of 9/11 on children, and the effects of gun violence on children in Houston, Tex. In 2006, Shames founded L.E.A.D. Uganda, an NGO in Africa that locates forgotten children and molds them into leaders by sending them to the best schools and colleges.
- Publications (note)
- The Black Panthers : photographs / by Steven Shames ; foreword by Bobby Seale ; essay by Charles E. Jones. New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c 2006.
- Author
- Shames, Stephen, photographer.
- Title
- Black Panther series : Angela Davis speaking in DeFremery Park, Oakland / Stephen Shames.
- Production
- 2004.
- Type of content
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- sheet
- Terms of use
- Image is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography
- Stephen Shames, born 1947 in Cambridge, Mass., is an American photojournalist whose work has been used to raise awareness on social issues, particularly child poverty and race. He is noted for his documentation of the Black Panther Party, in Oakland, Calif., (1967-1973); his work on child poverty in the United States (1984-1989) and the follow-up project to document community solutions to child poverty (1994-1996); and ongoing projects on child poverty in other countries, the effects of 9/11 on children, and the effects of gun violence on children in Houston, Tex. In 2006, Shames founded L.E.A.D. Uganda, an NGO in Africa that locates forgotten children and molds them into leaders by sending them to the best schools and colleges.
- Publications
- The Black Panthers : photographs / by Steven Shames ; foreword by Bobby Seale ; essay by Charles E. Jones. New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c 2006.
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- Research call number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Shames, S.)