
All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party
SOLD OUT 9 x 10 inches, vertical, 96 pages; hardcover; $125.00 ISBN: 978-0-9906036-72 Exhibition featured in New York Magazine's The Cut; Photo District News, Artnet and more! In 1966 Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, two college students in Oakland, California, launched The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Officially active for less than twenty years (1966–1982), the Panthers indelibly pierced the public consciousness, and for many its legacy remains controversial—witness the virulent responses to Beyonce Knowles’ 2016 Super Bowl performance that included an homage to the Panthers through dancers in berets and black leather outfits. That visual—gun-toting, well-dressed black men with berets and gun-toting, well-dressed women with Afros—is what most of mainstream America, if they know anything at all, think of with regard to the Black Panther Party. This book, All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, evolved from correspondence and conversation with a select list of co