{"id":6577,"date":"2016-11-22T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:10:10","slug":"black-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6577","title":{"rendered":"Black Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On<em> Lensculture<\/em> you can see a set of 31 images and a short text by <em>Stephen Shames<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/articles\/stephen-shames-the-black-panthers-50-year-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Panthers \u2014 50 Year Anniversary<\/a>. The pictures are a selection from the 200 black and white images by him in the recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/product\/power-to-the-people-the-world-of-the-black-panthers_9781419722400\/\" target=\"_blank\">Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers<\/a> by <em>Bobby Seale<\/em> with photographs by Shames.<\/p>\n<p>Shames met and photographed Seale at an anti\u2013Vietnam War rally in April 1967 and Seale became a mentor to the\u00a0University of California student\u00a0 who became the most trusted photographer to the party, remaining by Seale\u2019s side through his campaign for mayor of Oakland in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the Black Panthers is a remarkable one, not least for showing the illegal lengths that a white political establishment was prepared to go to maintain its racist supremacy, with military-style police attacks and a huge\u00a0campaign of intimidation and assassination by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Shames has produced many other fine projects and it&#8217;s worth spending time on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenshames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his web site<\/a>. In particular there are many pictures about child poverty and low income families and his work has been compared with that by Lewis Hine a hundred years earlier. As well as working with organisations involved in social issues he has also &#8220;<em>started\u00a0an NGO\u00a0which locates forgotten children (AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, and children living in refugee camps) with innate talents and molds them into leaders by sending them to the best schools and colleges<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although most of his work has been concerned with the USA &#8211; which is perhaps why he is not well known in the UK, his essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenshames.com\/projects\/street-kids\" target=\"_blank\">Street Kids<\/a> includes images from Brazil, Bangladesh, India, Romania and Honduras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Lensculture you can see a set of 31 images and a short text by Stephen Shames, The Black Panthers \u2014 50 Year Anniversary. The pictures are a selection from the 200 black and white images by him in the recently published Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Panthers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}