The Black Panthers
- Title
- The Black Panthers / Stephen Shames.
- Published by
- 1968-2014.
- Author
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints. | FormatStill image | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc Photo Portfolio (Shames, S. The Black Panthers) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Description
- 17 items (.3 cubic ft., one box); 41 x 51 cm
- Summary
- Depictions of individuals, activities and programs associated with the Black Panther Party from 1968 to 1972, consisting of candid shots of party leaders and members; views of rallies and protests, a liquor store boycott, a community conference, and a funeral; candid shots and views of free food programs; and candid shots of school children and a newspaper seller. The majority of images depict the Black Panthers' activities in Oakland, California and the San Francisco Bay Area; also depicted are a march in West Philadelphia (1971) and a free breakfast program in Chicago (1970).
- Of note are a portrait of Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton at home listening to a Bob Dylan album (1970); views of a "Free Huey" rally held in DeFremery Park, Oakland, that include Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale addressing the rally, with Black Panther captains Bill Brent and Wilford "Captain Crutch" Holliday (1968); views of mourners and the arrival of the coffin outside St. Augustine's Church, Oakland, during the funeral for prison activist George Jackson (1971); views of food recipients at People's Free Food Programs in Oakland and Palo Alto, California (1972); a view of Black Panther children attending class at the International Youth Institute, the Black Panther school, Oakland (1971); a portrait of a man selling a copy of the Black Panthers' official newspaper in the Roxbury section of Boston (1970); and a portrait of a young girl named Michelle, the daughter of Evon Carter, standing at a blackboard at the Intercommunal Youth Institute, the school for the sons and daughters of the Black Panther Party, in Oakland (1971).
- Subject
- Gelatin silver prints > 2000-2019
- Group portraits > 2000-2019
- Portrait photographs > 2000-2019
- School breakfast programs > Illinois > Chicago
- Schools > California > Oakland > 1970-1979
- Food relief > California > 1970-1979
- Funeral rites & ceremonies > California > Oakland > 1970-1979
- Demonstrations > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > 1970-1979
- Demonstrations > California > San Francisco > 1970-1979
- Demonstrations > California > Oakland > 1960-1969
- African Americans > Political activity > California > Oakland > 1960-1979
- African American political activists
- Black Panther Party
- Seale, Bobby, 1936-
- Newton, Huey P
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 2000-2019.
- Group portraits – 2000-2019.
- Gelatin silver prints – 2000-2019.
- Call number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Shames, S. The Black Panthers)
- Note
- Title based on related published material.
- All photographs bear the photographer's signature on verso.
- The collection's prints measuring 41 x 51 cm were originally captured between 1968 and 1972, and later printed in 2006 and 2014. The collection's prints measuring 35 x 28 cm are vintage prints, ca. 1968-1972.
- Terms of use (note)
- Collection 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 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 educational leadership initiative for Ugandan children affected by A.I.D.S., war and poverty.
- 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.
- Power to the people : the world of the Black Panthers / Stephen Shames & Bobby Seale. New York, N.Y. : Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2016.
- Author
- Shames, Stephen, photographer.
- Title
- The Black Panthers / Stephen Shames.
- Production
- 1968-2014.
- Type of content
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- sheet
- Terms of use
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography
- Stephen Shames, born 1947 in Cambridge, Mass., is an American photojournalist 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 educational leadership initiative for Ugandan children affected by A.I.D.S., war and poverty.
- Publications
- The Black Panthers : photographs / by Steven Shames ; foreword by Bobby Seale ; essay by Charles E. Jones. New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c 2006.
- Power to the people : the world of the Black Panthers / Stephen Shames & Bobby Seale. New York, N.Y. : Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2016.
- Connect to:
- Research call number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Shames, S. The Black Panthers)