On July, 1967 in The Black Panther Party HeadQuarters in Oakland, CA (USA), a photograph of Huey P. Newton in front of the poster of Huey P. Newton in a rattan chair was made by Ted Streshinsky.
The site catalogue.swanngalleries.com describes this image as follows:
“Sale 2471 | Lot 113 Price Realized: $563
Poster of Huey Newton posed in front of a poster of himself. Large black and white poster, 35 1/2 x 29 inches, from a photograph by Ted Streshinsky (here spelled “Strashinsky”); minor foxing, light wrinkling, tape remnants at edges, 4-inch repaired closed tear, 1-inch chip filled along lower edge. New York: Personality Posters, “1966” [late 1967?]*
Faintly visible in the background of this soft-focus image of Newton, hanging on the wall, is the famous poster of Newton seated with a rifle and spear. Oddly enough, that poster is usually assigned a 1967 or 1968** date, so it shouldn’t appear in the background of an 1966 poster. The present image comes from a shoot the well-known photographer Ted Streshinsky did with Newton and Bobby Seale at the Black Panthers headquarters in July 1967. One copy in OCLC, and only one other traced at auction.” (Swann Galleries)
Ad *: The photo of Huey in a Rattan chair is made after the Sacramento-event on May 2, 1967 and first published on 15th of May 1967.
Ad **: The poster is made after the first publication on May 15th and before the arrest of Newton for the killing of officer John Frey on October 28, 1967. So the date of this photo series; July, 1967 makes sense. That also means that the poster is made in 2nd half of May or June 1967.
