Black Power Black Panthers 1969
Janine Wiedel
Cafe Royal Books
English
Edited by Craig Atkinson
Softover
Edition of 200
36 pages
140 x 200 mm
2017
ISBN Not Available
This book collects Janine Wiedel’s photographs of the Black Panthers in San Francisco and Oakland in 1969. Wiedel, who was born in America and has been based in London since the 1970s, is known for her work documenting political issues, social movements, and marginalized groups including the Irish Travellers, working-class communities in the West Midlands, and a Rastafari community in London. A zine of photographs taken in California in 1969, when The Black Panther Party was being heavily targeted by the police and the FBI. The Panthers emerged from the Black Power Movement in 1966. Founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, they formed an organisation committed to improving social conditions and instilling racial pride in their communities.
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About the Artist
Janine Wiedel is an documentary photographer and visual anthropologist. She was born in New York city, has been based in the UK since 1970 and lives in London. Since the late 1960s she has been working on projects which have become books and exhibitions.
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About the Publisher
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not relying on ‘the gallery’. Café Royal Books publishes artist’s books and zines as well as a weekly series of photobook/zines. The photographic publications are part of a long ongoing series, generally working with photographers and their archives, to publish work, which usually falls into 1970–2000 UK documentary / reportage.
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