Photographer @ the Library Series - Stephen Shames

December 1, 2008

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Photographer @ the Library Series - Stephen Shames

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<i>Photographer @ the Library Series</i> - Stephen Shames

Photographer @ the Library Series - Stephen Shames

Stephen Shames will discuss the intensely engaging work from his Aperture book, The Black Panthers and what he learned from the Panthers about leadership and community.

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Stephen Shames will discuss the intensely engaging work from his Aperture book, The Black Panthers and what he learned from the Panthers about leadership and community. During the height of the Civil Rights movement, from 1967 to 1973, photographer Stephen Shames had unprecedented access to the Black Panther Party through his close friendship with the Panthers and Bobby Seale in particular, and captured not only its public face—street demonstrations, protests, and militant armed posturing—but also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments, from private Party meetings held in its headquarters to Bobby Seale at work on his mayoral campaign in Oakland. Shames’s work offers an uncommonly nuanced portrait of this dynamic social movement, during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history.

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Stephen Shames is an award-winning photographer and social activist whose photographs have been published in numerous major publications and are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Shames’s other publications with Aperture are: Pursuing the Dream, Outside the Dream, and Empower Zone. He is represented by Polaris Images, and the Stephen Kasher Gallery, New York.

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WHEN AND WHERE:

Tuesday, May 27
6:30 p.m.

New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 340-0849

FREE

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