Malcolm X Portrait - Photo by John Launois

Portrait of Malcolm X taken by John Launois, July-Aug, 1964
Scanned from a slide acquired from his estate.

Size: A4 print
Media: Hahnemuhle Ultra smooth 305gsm
Open Edition

It's been 101 years since Malcolm X was born and the open edition is priced at £101 to commemorate this.  

This photo was taken in Cairo in July/Aug of 1964, months before his assassination in NYC in February, 1965.

John Launois was commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post to take photos of Malcolm X and his image appeared (not this one) on the cover of the edition dated Sep 12, 1964.

In Alex Haley's renowned biography, this citation appears:
"The Saturday Evening Post flew photographer John Launois to Cairo to locate Malcolm X and photograph him in color."

The photo available here looks to be an outtake from the series of photos that John Launois photographed. You can see the others here:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/sep-keyword/black-discontent-malcolm/