#stephenshames

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.

Stephen Shames,

Une rétrospective

du 11 octobre au 14 janvier 2018 à @maisondoisneaugentilly

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.

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.

Photos from my book Stephen Shames: a lifetime in photography  

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