To that end, Beasley brings together two seemingly unlikely antecedents: Gian Lorenzo Bernini's seventeenth - century Baroque altarpiece for Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the iconic 1967 photograph of Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton wearing the party
uniform of black leather jacket and beret, holding a shotgun in one hand and a spear in the other.
Urban Outfitters top, Madewell
leather pants, Isabel Marant shoes, Saint Laurent bag Instead
of going the colorful route for summer, my
uniform for the season is seemingly stuck in the white and
black ends
of the color spectrum.
In the second photograph, he dons the classic «Panther
uniform»
of a
leather jacket and
black beret, the army medals replaced with Black power but
black beret, the army medals replaced with
Black power but
Black power buttons.
Last night at Baxter St at the Camera Club
of New York's opening
of «Do Not Destroy,» California artist Sadie Barnette's first solo exhibition in New York City, Rodney Barnette stood in between two large framed photographs
of himself from nearly 50 years ago: one, dressed in the
uniform of the U.S. Army before he was sent to fight in Vietnam, and after, outfitted in the
black turtleneck, black leather jacket, solidarity - fist button, and black beret that were the de-facto uniform of the Black Panther Party, of whom he was once an organ
black turtleneck,
black leather jacket, solidarity - fist button, and black beret that were the de-facto uniform of the Black Panther Party, of whom he was once an organ
black leather jacket, solidarity - fist button, and
black beret that were the de-facto uniform of the Black Panther Party, of whom he was once an organ
black beret that were the de-facto
uniform of the
Black Panther Party, of whom he was once an organ
Black Panther Party,
of whom he was once an organizer.