Photoville

Jeffrey Henson Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales

In A Time of Panthers is a collection of Jeffrey Henson Scales’s earliest photographs of the Black Panthers in Oakland, and the People’s Park riots in Berkeley, which he made as a teenager.

Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing intimate portraits and protest images of the organization and its leaders in a time of societal upheaval, Scales’s archive lay dormant and forgotten for some 50 years. Then, in 2018, when his mother died and the contents of the family home were sorted, the negatives were discovered.

Artist Bios

  • Jeffrey Henson Scales

    Jeffrey Henson Scales

    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

Organizations

  • Claire Oliver Gallery

    Claire Oliver Gallery

  • Photoville

    Photoville

    Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.

    In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.

    By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.

    Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.

    For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com

In A Time of Panthers: Early Photographs

 archive : 2022

Featuring: Jeffrey Henson Scales

Curated by: Jeffrey Henson Scales

Presented by: Henson Scales Productions, Clair Oliver Gallery, SPQR Editions, and Photoville
  • Claire Oliver Gallery
  • Photoville

Locations

View Location Details Brooklyn Bridge Park – New Dock Street

New Dock Street and Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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All photographs copyrighted Jeffrey Henson Scales

For information about acquisitions and exhibitions please contact Claire Oliver Gallery at [email protected]

Related Events

Jun 82022

Photoville Education Field Trips: Jeffrey Henson Scales

Featuring photographer Jeffrey Henson Scales discussing his exhibition In A Time of Panthers: Early Photographs

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Jun 42022

Photowalk with 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.

Meet at Pier 1 Info Booth.

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