SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
Lessons of individual development rather than collective or political consciousness
ANGUS REID reviews a book that is an important and comprehensive work of documentation
Gloria Abernethy sells the Black Panther newspaper while Tamara Lacey holds a sickle-cell anaemia poster at the Mayfair supermarket boycott in Oakland, California, 1971
[Stephen Shames]
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party
Photographs by Stephen Shames, text by Ericka Huggins
ACC Art Books £35
IT IS impossible not to be moved by Stephen Shames’s innocent and spontaneous documentation of the communal “‘survival programmes” that were inspired by the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s and 1970s.
He was 20 years old, an amateur, and he found himself in the middle of a defiant and self-organising mass movement that was addressing existential problems in the black community in a way that was without precedent in the history of the US.
Suddenly, all of it is interesting.
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