Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA, Sept. 22, 1968, from: Black Panther), 1968–69.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA, Sept. 22, 1968, from: Black Panther), 1968–69.
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch” is on view at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, through Sunday, June 3. The exhibition presents work, donated to the museum in 2013, by the photographer-couple, who documented San Francisco in the 1960s, from the emergence of the Black Panthers to the rise of hippie culture in the Haight-Ashbury section of the city.
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Pirkle Jones, Untitled (Black Panthers demonstration, Alameda County Courthouse, Oakland, CA, during Huey Newton’s trial), July 30, 1968, printed 2010.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Pirkle Jones, Hitchhiking Mother with Child, #75, Gate Five, Sausalito, CA, 1971, from: Gate Five, 1969–1971), 1971.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Ruth-Marion Baruch, “Jesus” Selling the Oracle, Haight-Ashbury, from the series "Haight-Ashbury," 1967.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Pirkle Jones, Kathleen Cleaver and the Black Panthers (“Free Huey” rally,
Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA, Sept. 22, 1968, from: Black Panther), 1968–1969.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Ruth-Marion Baruch, Untitled (Black Panthers stand at the BlackFestival, Marin City,
CA, from a photo essay on the Black Panthers), 1968.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Pirkle Jones, Wayne with His Parrot (Normal-Norman Carlin, Michael Scott center, and unidentified man right, #10, Gate Five, Sausalito, CA, from: Gate Five, 1969–1971), 1970.
©PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION/MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE, DONATION FROM THE PIRKLE JONES FOUNDATION
Installation view of "Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch," 2018, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
JONAS KLEIN, RHEINISCHES BILDARCHIV KÖLN/COURTESY MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE
Installation view of "Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch," 2018, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
JONAS KLEIN, RHEINISCHES BILDARCHIV KÖLN/COURTESY MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE
Installation view of "Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch," 2018, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
JONAS KLEIN, RHEINISCHES BILDARCHIV KÖLN/COURTESY MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE
Installation view of "Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch," 2018, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
JONAS KLEIN, RHEINISCHES BILDARCHIV KÖLN/COURTESY MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE
Installation view of "Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch," 2018, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
JONAS KLEIN, RHEINISCHES BILDARCHIV KÖLN/COURTESY MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE
Installation view of "Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch," 2018, at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
JONAS KLEIN, RHEINISCHES BILDARCHIV KÖLN/COURTESY MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE