Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch

Black Power – Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch
03.02.2018 - 03.06.2018
Curator: Barbara Engelbach

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, the Museum Ludwig is exhibiting the works of the photographers Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch, who captured San Francisco in the turbulent 1960s with sympathy and observing distance. It was a time when, particularly on the West Coast of the United States, the various strands of the civil rights movement and counterculture came together, in which the Black Panthers emerged and hippies experimented with new ways of living and working in the Haight-Ashbury district. In 2013, the Museum Ludwig received a donation of fifty-one photographs from the Pirkle Jones Foundation in San Francisco. In February 2018 they will be presented in their entirety for the first time.