Stephen Shames
Cambridge, US
Teenage Sexuality

Black Panther Party

Bronx Boys














































Stephen Shames has worked as a photojournalist for over 45 years, using photography as a tool to raise awareness of social issues, with a particular focus on race and child poverty. Working to promote social change, Shames documented unprecedented access to the legendary Black Panther Party from 1967 to 1973, while still a student at the University of California at Berkley.


Boys Smoking, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15 x 23 cm, pièce unique

Young Couple Kissing, Vancouver, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
13,5 x 20,5 cm, pièce unique

Boy and Girl Wrestling, Vancouver, 1975
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,5 x 22,5 cm, pièce unique

Boy asking girl to go steady, Vancouver, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
23,5 x 15,5 cm, pièce unique

Boy and girl wrestle, Vancouver, 1975
Vintage, tirage argentique
23,7 x 16 cm, pièce unique

Teenagers, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,5 x 23,5 cm, pièce unique

Teenagers Sunbathing on Jones Beach, New York, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
14,5 x 21,5 cm, pièce unique

Teenagers, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,5 x 23,5 cm, pièce unique

Girls primping in front of the mirror, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,5 x 23,5 cm, pièce unique

Teenage Boy listening to the radio, New-York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
21,5 x 14 cm, pièce unique

Three teenage couples making out at a party, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
22,5 x 15,2 cm, pièce unique

Young Couples, Vancouver, 1975
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,7 x 24,2 cm, pièce unique

Young Couple (marriage), New York, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
24 x 16 cm, pièce unique

Two couples "making out" in bunk beds a Saturday night, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
23 x 15 cm, pièce unique

Boy pouring water down girls pants, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
14,5 x 21,5 cm, pièce unique

Boy and Girl Wrestling on the Beach, Vancouver, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
14,9 x 21,7 cm, pièce unique

Eleven year olds "making out", New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,7 x 23,7 cm, pièce unique

Young Couple Kissing, Vancouver, 1975
Vintage, tirage argentique
15 x 22,4 cm, pièce unique

Teenagers, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,8 x 23,6 cm, pièce unique

Young Couple, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
16 x 24 cm, pièce unique

Teenage Feet at a party, New York City, 1976
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,7 x 23,7 cm, pièce unique

Black Panthers hold Free Huey signs, 1968
Vintage, tirage argentique
16 x 23,9 cm, pièce unique

George Jackson funeral at St. Augustine’s Church, 1971
Vintage, tirage argentique
20,6 x 30,8 cm, pièce unique

Angela Davis relaxes during a day off from her trial, 1972
Vintage, tirage argentique
30,3 x 20,4 cm, pièce unique

Black Panther Party Chief of Staff David Hilliard kisses his wife, Pat, in Huey's apartment, 1970
Vintage, tirage argentique
22 x 14,6 cm, pièce unique

Woman holds a bag of Roman Meal cereal at the Black Panther Free Food Program, 1971
Vintage, tirage argentique
24 x 16,5 cm, pièce unique

Two Women with bags of food, 1972
Vintage, tirage argentique
19 x 15,5 cm, pièce unique

Huey P.Newton oposes in his Penthouse, 1972
Vintage, tirage argentique
25,5 x 17,8 cm, pièce unique

Angela Davis, 1972
Vintage, tirage argentique
21,5 x 14 cm, pièce unique

Woman Applause, 1968
Vintage, tirage argentique
16 x 24 cm, pièce unique

Black Panthers give the resistant first salute, 1968
Vintage, tirage argentique
25,5 x 20 cm, pièce unique

Black Panther Chairman, 1968
Vintage, tirage argentique
24,5 x 17,8 cm, pièce unique

Breakfast Children Program #1, 1969
Vintage, tirage argentique
23,5 x 16 cm, pièce unique

Breakfast Children Program #2, 1972
Vintage, tirage argentique
20,5 x 25,5 cm, pièce unique

Angela Davis speaking, 1969
Vintage, tirage argentique
20 x 25,5 cm, pièce unique

Bobby Seale in Jail, 1969
Vintage, tirage argentique
25,5 x 20,5 cm, pièce unique

Boy at a Free Angela Rally, 1971
Vintage, tirage argentique
22,5 x 16,25 cm, pièce unique

Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, 1971
Vintage, tirage argentique
15 x 22,3 cm, pièce unique

Black Panther Brother Alton serves children a nutrious meal at the Black Panther Free Breakfast for School Children program, 1969
Vintage, tirage argentique
24,2 x 16,2 cm, pièce unique

James Baldwin, 1969
Vintage, tirage argentique
23,8 x 16,2 cm, pièce unique

Selling Panther paper in the 8th Avenue bus terminal, 1971
Vintage, tirage argentique
22 x 14,7 cm, pièce unique

Rafael jumps from one building to the next, eight stories up, 1977
Vintage, tirage argentique
24 x 16,5 cm, pièce unique

Swim Pool Jump, Bronx, 1983
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,7 x 23,6 cm, pièce unique

No title, Bronx, 1990
Vintage, tirage argentique
15,5 x 23 cm, pièce unique

Claremont Boys Motorcycle, South Bronx, 1977
Vintage, tirage argentique
15 x 22,5 cm, pièce unique