Jeffrey Henson Scales
In A Time of Panthers: Early Photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Rediscovering Historic Photos of the Black Panther Party in 1960s Oakland.
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Presenters: Jeffrey Henson Scales
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Photographer and New York Times editor, Jeffrey Henson Scales, discusses the recently-discovered photographs he made as a teenager in 1960s Oakland of the Black Panthers from his upcoming book, In A Time of Panthers.
Jeffrey Henson Scales is a photographer, New York Times photo editor, and a New York University professor of photojournalism. He began making photographs at age 11, after his parents gave him 30 years’ worth of LIFE Magazine and a Leica camera. He has since spent more than five decades as a documentary and commercial photographer.
His documentary photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States, and have appeared in numerous photography magazines, books, and anthologies. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the City Museum of New York, the George Eastman House, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Weisman Museum of Art, the Museum of Art at Newfields, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Henson Scales is also an award-winning editor who curates The New York Times photography column, Exposures, and is co-editor of the annual Year in Pictures special section.
His ongoing project is entitled The Archive Project, in which his archiving team is digitizing and cataloging over 50 years of his personal and professional photographs, including images from the upcoming book In A Time of Panthers: Early Photographs.
Photo Credit: Chad Batka
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