Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of a “Free Bobby (Seale)” Black Panther Button pinback button, by Platon. The round, white, pin back button features a black-and-white illustration of the Black Panther Party emblem: a crouching, snarling black panther. Black text printed above and below the emblem reads [FREE] and [BOBBY]. The surface of the button is darkened in several areas. The background of the photograph is black. The photograph has a thick white border. The edition number, [5/12], is printed in the bottom left corner. The photographer’s signature and date, [Platon 19], is handwritten in the bottom right corner. Inside the border, at the bottom center, is the photographer’s embossed mark: [PLATON ? / EDITIONED ? / PRINT ?[encircled between two bands of embossed dots]]. The back of the photograph is plain and white.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Platon, British, born 1968
- Subject of
- Bobby Seale, American, born 1936
- Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
- Date
- 2010; printed 2019
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Platon
- Medium
- pigment on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 16 5/8 × 16 7/8 in. (42.3 × 42.8 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
- H x W (matted): 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
- Type
- pigment prints
