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met James Baldwin in 1969 downstairs in the San Francisco City Jail before his visit with Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale. We went up together and I was privileged to be with the two of them as they talked and became friends. Photo is in my new retrospective book - Stephen Shames" a lifetime in photography.

Bobby was kidnapped off the streets of Berkeley as he left his wedding ceremony with his new wife on August 19, 1969. A member of the Chicago 8, charged with starting the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention, Bobby's Chicago trial started October, 1969. (A commission characterized it as a “police riot”.) Judge Hoffman gagged and chained him on October 31, 1969. He was later put on trial for murder in New Haven. He was acquitted of that charge.

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Stephen Shames,

Une rétrospective

du 11 octobre au 14 janvier 2018 à @maisondoisneaugentilly

Photo : Panthers on Parade”, Oakland, 28 juillet 1968. © Stephen Shames / courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery

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Lebanon is in is in the news - again. I was in Beirut in 1976 and 1980. Photo: 1980 - Boys dive from a cliff during a cease fire in the civil war.

Photo is in my new book Stephen Shames: a lifetime in photography. Signed book is only available on my Kickstarter. 

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1985 - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: Boys hang out in Lower Price Hill. Just across the river from Kentucky, Lower Price Hill is the home of a community of poor whites who have kept to themselves for generations.

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Black Panthers in DeFremery Park, Oakland. 1968. This photo is in my new book Stephen Shames: a lifetime in photography (Kehrer Verlag) Only chance to get a signed book is on my Kickstarter. One week to go. 98% funded. $340 to reach goal.

[stephenshames]

My journey as a photographer started during the 1960s when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. I became an artist of the struggle. I got to know the leaders of the anti-Vietnam War and the Black Power movements, including Bobby Seale (second slide), cofounder of the Black Panthers, who became a mentor. Seale and the Panthers taught me how to see a community that was not my own from the inside. 

I photographed the Black Panther Party from 1967 to 1973, and published three books, including ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party’. These earlier photographs would lay the foundation of my life’s work.

My new retrospective book ‘Stephen Shames: A Lifetime in Photography’ (published by @kehrerverlag) is not a linear documentary, nor is it organized in a chronological manner. Instead, it is a visual journey, an invitation to experience the images in a dynamic flow, to engage deeper with the themes and emotions. In the foreword Jeffrey Henson Scales describes it as “more a collage of Shames’s life as photographer, a mashup of his life’s work.’ 

Please walk with me. Share my journey.

Go to Kickstarter.com - Click on Photography. Scroll down to Stephen Shames: a lifetime in photography.

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Photos from my book Stephen Shames: a lifetime in photography  

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