Life as a Black Panther: Newly discovered photos show the unseen side of the movement fighting for civil rights
- Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch stood in solidarity with the BPP, photographing their fight for equality
- The couple aimed to show a different image of the protesters from the mainstream media at the time
- Images show people of all ages taking on police brutality with community activism and political education
- Elbert ‘Bigman’ Howard, one of the Panther founders, said the couple ‘had a great eye for humanity'
- Baruch said at the time: 'We can only tell you: This is what we saw. This is what we felt. These are the people.'
- Vanguard Revisited will take their images and display alongside the work of four contemporary black artists and collectives - Kija Lucas, Tosha Stimage, Chris Martin, and 5/5 Collective, at the San Francisco Art Institute
A new exhibition will document the unseen side of the Black Panther Party in a series of rare archive images taken by a husband and wife team who gained unprecedented access to the group's inner circle.
Vanguard Revisited will take the pictures from 1968 by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch and display them alongside new images of the Black Panther Party from 1969 onwards.
The images show people of all ages taking on police brutality with community activism, political education campaigns and coalitions with local and national organizations. The couple aimed to show a different image of the protesters from the mainstream media at the time.
Baruch said at the time: 'We can only tell you: This is what we saw. This is what we felt. These are the people.'
Elbert ‘Bigman’ Howard, one of the Panther founders, said Jones and Baruch ‘had a great eye for humanity; nobody was posing; we were all part of somebody’s family'.
Jones and Barruch’s archival photographs will now run alongside the work of four contemporary black artists and collectives - Kija Lucas, Tosha Stimage, Chris Martin, and 5/5 Collective.
American professor of law Kathleen Cleaver wearing dashiki during a Black Panther rally in 1968. A new exhibition will document the unseen side of the Black Panther Party in a series of never before seen images
Ruth-Marion Baruch, left, photographs one campaigner helping out at a Panther free breakfast for children program. Community activism and strong political education played a large role in The Black Panther Party
The children of Captain David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, pictured at a Free Huey rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park taken by Ruth-Marion Baruch who gained unprecedented access to the group
Baruch said of the Black Panthers, pictured here in 1968 at a Free Huey rally in Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, 'we can only tell you: This is what we saw. This is what we felt. These are the people'
Jones took this image of men talking on park bench. Vanguard Revisited will take pictures from 1968 taken by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch and display them alongside new images of the Black Panther Party from 1969 onwards
The images show people of all ages taking on police brutality, including these women, with community activism, political education campaigns and coalitions with local and national organizations
Jones and Barruch’s archival photographs will now run alongside the work of four contemporary black artists and collectives - Kija Lucas, Tosha Stimage, Chris Martin, and 5/5 Collective
A man pictured serving food to girl at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church under the Black Panther Free Breakfast for Children Program. The couple aimed to show a different image of the protesters from the mainstream media at the time
The streets of Oakland. Elbert ‘Bigman’ Howard, one of the Panther founders, said the couple ‘had a great eye for humanity'
Marin City Black Panthers photographed by Pirkle Jones in 1968. Jones stood in solidarity with them and his images were first printed in The Black Panther weekly newspaper before going on display at San Francisco’s de Young Museum shortly after
George Murray, Minister of Education, teaching English at San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA
Crowds viewing The Black Panthers: A Photographic essay show at de Young Museum after the images went on display. It is thought that more than 100,000 people attended the show and the historic body of work has now inspired a new exhibition
Three men carrying Free Huey banners on court house steps at Alameda County Courthouse. Huey Percy Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 with Bobby Seale
Panthers pictured during a drill. Newton was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his imprisonment sparked protests
A Free Huey rally, DeFremery Park, Oakland. Newton's conviction was overturned and in 1970 he was released from prison
Black Panthers drilling before Free Huey Rally, DeFremery Park, Oakland, CA. Newton had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter after the death of a police officer in 1967
A bullet hole in the glass window of Black Panther Party National Headquarters, Oakland, CA
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