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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.
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...
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 ...
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.
24 de nov. de 2020 · Recently awarded the Kresge Foundation’s Eminent Artist Award, Leni Sinclair was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1959. Sinclair arrived just in time to play an active role in bringing the hippie scene to Detroit, much of which she captured on film.
