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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.
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.
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...
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 ...
1 de jun. de 2021 · Leni Sinclair’s photographs capture the radical White Panther Party. Art & Photography Lightbox. The photographer and activist lenses the beatniks, artists, and musicians who got together as an anti-racist group that supported the Black Panthers. 1June 2021.
Leni Sinclair is a photographer and activist who captured Detroit's cultural, political and social history for six decades. She received the 2016 Kresge Eminent Artist Award, a $50,000 prize, for her artistic innovation and social impact.
