The above photo of experimental filmmaker Warren Sonbert was licensed to film scholar John Powers for an aritcle in the book “Sixteen at 100: Histories of a Radical Film Format,” Gregory A. Waller and Haidee Wasson, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Read MoreMacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow Deborah Willis is updating her 2000 comprehensive history of black photographers and groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life, “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present.” The new edition “ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK,” includes work by Hugh Bell, among other notable black photograhers, and is being published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a wholly subsidiary of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s photos of the founding host and anchor of NBC’s Today from 1952-1961 will appear on the cover and within Jodie Peeler’s forthcoming book “Peace: The Wide World of Dave Garroway, Television's Original Master Communicator.”
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s iconic photograph of educator Kenneth B. Clark was included in the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD directed by Jamilia Ephron, produced by Ark Media.
Read MoreThis photo for the cover of The Shangri-Las debut album from 1965 is one of many commercial photos by Hugh Bell, whose photographs appeared on many album covers throughout the period. They primarily featured jazz artists, including Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderly, Houston Person, Bill Hardman, Larry Coryell, and the Nat Dixon Quartet. Director Nagy included this cover in her upcoming Roadside Attractions release CALL JANE, starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Mara, about a 1960s housewife (Banks) who joins the Jane Collective to fight for women's rights as she struggles to cope with her need for an abortion during a time of limited social or political support.
Read MoreHugh Bell’s photograph Early Morning, 1964 (from his collection of more than two dozen Afro-Caribbean photographs), was licensed by BuzzFeed News for their 2021 Black History Month feature article “The Black Photographers Who Paved The Way For The World We Live In Now”.
Read MoreHugh Bell’s was an American photographer of Caribbean descent, most well known for his photographs of jazz clubs and musicians. Born and raised in Harlem, he also captured Pride marches and demonstrations like Wigstock during the 1980s and 1990s. Bell influenced a generation of photographers, as well as documenting a different time for #pride. BuzzFeed News looked back in June, 2021 at LGBTQ history and representation through the years in the US and abroad.
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s iconic photograph of educator Kenneth B. Clark was included in the 2021 5th edition of Teachers, Schools and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education college textbook from McGraw Hill by David Sadker and Karen Zittelman.
Read MoreGartenberg Media, the exclusive representative of the Estate of Hugh Bell, licensed several powerful images Bell took of the famed singer backstage at Carnegie Hall to this feature production.
Read MoreOver the past several years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) has worked diligently to further the legacy of talented African-American artist Hugh Bell, whose photography career began in the early 1950s. We are pleased to announce that the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Department of Art, University of Minnesota, will feature Hugh Bell’s work in their forthcoming exhibition projected for September of 2021, entitled “ A Picture Gallery of the Soul,” which will celebrate the work of African American photographers.
Read MoreRaimondo Borea's photograph of the Juilliard School's acting program, taught by John Houseman, was featured as the frontespiece in the recently published book, "Acting in the Academy: The History of Professional Actor Training in US Higher Education," by Peter Zazzali, published in 2016 by Routledge.
Read MoreGME takes special pride in announcing the featuring of Hugh Bell's iconic photographs of jazz legend Sarah Vaughan on a United States Postal Service Commemorative Forever Stamp.
Read MoreIn 2020, The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) acquired six lifetime silver gelatin prints from the GME’s Hugh Bell archive for their permanent collection.
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s iconic photograph of educator Kenneth B. Clark has been placed on permanent display as part of a wall text at the entry to the Kenneth B. Clark Auditorium at the New York State Museum in Albany.
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