The Black Panthers, 'The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense'

© David Montgomery
U.S.A. 1969
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity

Shot by David Montgomery, this photography work depicts The Black Panthers, a Marxist-Leninist political organisation which was founded by Merritt College students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton during October 1966 in Oakland, California. It was a revolutionary organisation with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, David Montgomery is a multiple award-winning photographer having produced many of the most memorable images of the sixties and seventies, he was heralded by Q Magazine as having shot some of the most iconic images of the sixties. After studying under Alexi Brodevitch, he became assistant to photographer Lester Bookbinder with whom he accompanied on a working visit to London, quickly falling in love with the city he stayed and moved his family over soon after.

Montgomery is best known for his work with Rolling Stones, namely the Electric Ladyland album cover, and iconic portrait of Hendrix wrapped in smoke and flames, which was entirely real after Montgomery started a fire behind the musician with a petrol canister.

Montgomery has been regularly featured in Vogue, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone, The Sunday Times and many books including Nicky Haslam’s Sheer Opulence. He was commissioned by the post office to create a special edition stamp for the millennium which won silver at the Design and Art Direction Awards, his work is exhibited in private collections and public galleries around the world, having been recently added to the permanent collection at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

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