#jean weisinger

[garadinervi]

«We will guard the flame. Legendary photographer Jean Weisinger presents her photo of Assata Shakur at an even more legendary school – Lincoln University, a fabulous historic black school, in Pennsylvania.» ― Alice Walker, October 8, 2025

[hyperallergic]

Jean Weisinger spent much of the 1990s capturing intimate portraits of revolutionary Black women — Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur among them — and impromptu photographs of people she met in her travels across the United States. ⁠ ⁠ Almost none of the artist’s work made its way into museum collections or gallery exhibitions, but from the tiny Alice Austen House in Staten Island, Executive Director Victoria Munro has spent the past two and a half years developing Weisinger’s unrevealed photographs and meticulously documenting the histories behind each one of them.⁠

[garadinervi]

Alice Walker, February 9, 1944 / 2020

(image: Alice Walker, (detail), photograph by Jean Weisinger, Oakland, CA, 1991, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN)

[diabeticlesbian]

As featured in "Lesbian Culture: An Anthology" 🌹

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Alice Walker, photograph by Jean Weisinger, 1990

Oakland-based Jean Weisinger (b. 1954) is a self-taught artist. Since mid-1980s, she has made the political activities of African American women her focus. Audre Lord and Alice Walker are frequent subjects of hers. She has also explored the African diaspora, traveling to England, Amsterdam, Germany, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, Jamaica, Mexico, and the southern United States to document the lives of black people.