Stephen Shames

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About Stephen Shames

Stephen Shames is author of eleven monographs: Stephen Shames: a lifetime in photography, Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers; Bronx Boys; Outside the Dream, and The Black Panthers.

Steve’s images are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Met, National Portrait Gallery; International Center of Photography; The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley; The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Jose Art Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Ford Foundation; Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Baruch College; Oakland Museum; University Art Museum, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Elton John Foundation, and the Honickman Foundation.

Steve’s book Outside the Dream received numerous awards including the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Excellence in Photojournalism.

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The Black Panthers — 50 Year Anniversary

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The legacy of the Black Panther Party can’t be understated — this retrospective of the BPP’s ideologies and goals shows that while progress has been made, we still have a long way to go.
Bronx Boys

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For over two decades, Stephen Shames injected himself into the mean streets of the South Bronx and made pictures about the kind of life that he saw there— unflinching yet intimate, straight-shooting yet sensitive, objectively powerful but also full of personal emotion—this is a beautiful book.
Street Kids

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The world has an estimated 150 million street children. Many of them fall victim to violence, abuse, and are unable to attend school or learn a trade — here are 40 portraits from five continents.