Bloomberg Businessweek, December 10, 2012
Photograph: Platon
Creative director: Richard Turley
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympic medal winners
Photograph by Platon, originally published in The New Yorker (2011)
Today (October 16) is the anniversary of Smith and Carlos’s famous black power Olympics medal podium protest.
Legendary cover designer George Lois celebrates the 50th anniversary of his first Esquire cover (October 1962). Photograph by Platon, from Fast Company.
More photos and info here.
Legendary Esquire cover designer George Lois celebrates the 50th anniversary of his first Esquire cover (he’s holding it), published October 1962.
Photograph: Platon, from the new Fast Company iPad app.
Creative director: Florian Bachleda
Legendary Esquire cover designer George Lois recites the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin,’” in this cool new video from the Fast Company October 2012 iPad app. Video by photographer Platon.
App available here
Elaine Brown, Black Panther Party leader
Part of the exhibit Freedom Now: Photographs by Platon, at the New York Historical Society
Don’t miss this amazing collection of photographs of civil rights and black power activists which originally appeared in The New Yorker.
John Lewis, civil rights activist and U.S. Congressman
Part of the exhibit Freedom Now: Photographs by Platon, at the New York Historical Society
Don’t miss this amazing collection of photographs of civil rights and black power activists which originally appeared in The New Yorker.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympic medal winners
Part of the exhibit Freedom Now: Photographs by Platon, at the New York Historical Society
Don’t miss this amazing collection of photographs of civil rights and black power activists which originally appeared in The New Yorker.
