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Magdalene "Leni" Sinclair (née Arndt; March 8, 1940) is an American photographer and radical political activist. She has photographed rock and jazz musicians since the early 1960s. She was the co-founder of the White Panther Party along with John Sinclair and Pun Plamondon.
16 de ago. de 2020 · Edward Helmore. Sun 16 Aug 2020 02.05 EDT. D efying Covid-19 and advancing years, Leni Sinclair left home recently to join a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Detroit. “It was exhilarating,”...
28 de ene. de 2016 · Rock photographer Leni Sinclair is Kresge Eminent Artist 2016 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian. Co-founder of the White Panthers and renowned for her photographs of jazz and rock...
8 March 1940. Photographer, co-founder Detroit Artists Workshop & White Panther Party, Minister of Education White Panther Party. Let’s call it like it lies: There are few images in rock ‘n’ roll as iconic as Leni Sinclair’s seminal MC5 photographs. And, as they say, half of life is just showing up.
18 de jul. de 2020 · The photographer, activist and co-founder of the White Panthers captured some of the greatest musicians of her generation as well as the struggle for civil rights.
This past spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit exhibited Motor City Underground, a retrospective of Leni Sinclair’s photography that was both timely and long overdue. As a co-founder of the antiracist White Panther Party, Sinclair was a leading figure in her Detroit community, establishing cooperatives and organizing protests with ...
3 de feb. de 2021 · Born in Germany, Leni Sinclair left with her family in 1959 with little more than a camera in her possession and despite this, she never aspired to become a photographer. Yet, now 80 years old, and having lived a life that saw her immersed in some of Detroit’s most prolific arts and cultural moments, things sort of “fell into ...
