Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones' Black Panthers Photography
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2016-02-12

Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones photographed the Black Panthers and the hippies of 1960s San Francisco. In December of 1968 an exhibition titled "A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers" opened at San Francisco’s de Young Museum.  The exhibition attracted 100,000 visitors before traveling to The Studio Museum of Harlem where it was the first photography show in that museum's history. Jeff Gunderson, Special Collections Librarian and Archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute will give an illustrated presentation about this controversial exhibition and the fascinating story of photographers Pirkle Jones and Ruth Marion Baruch who became fellow travelers with the Black Panthers.  We have more than 100 items about the Black Panthers in our online catalog: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&t=subject&search_category=subject&q=black+panthers&commit=Search