Photos by Hugh Bell in Commemoration of National Caribbean American Heritage Month
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Hugh Bell was of St. Lucian ancestry, and quite a number of his photographs focused on his Afro-Caribbean roots.
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GME Gem #13: Gartenberg Media Celebrates Pride Month 2019 with Photos by Hugh Bell
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Hugh Bell (1927-2012) was born in New York to parents who emigrated from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He spent a lot of time doing the thing he liked best, photographing jazz musicians, through which he gained notoriety while in his twenties. Hugh Bell also focused on documenting Gay Pride, Wigstock, and the Greenwich Village Halloween parade during the 1980s and 1990s.
Read MoreWarren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) in Dirty Looks: Eight Years On Touring Winter Series
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The Dirty Looks: Eight Years On winter tour runs from March 10 - April 24 across the U.S. and into Canada.
Read MoreWarren Sonbert’s Propulsive Cinema in Art in America Magazine
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Sonbert’s films consist of relentless montage. Scenes burst forth and quickly give way to the next. They inhabit the fringe of narrative, almost telling a story but never conveying character, conflict, or plot.
Read MoreIn commemoration of Black History Month - Jean Genet ’s THE BLACKS photographed by Hugh Bell
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Hugh Bell was a renowned art and commercial photographer, who worked in New York City over the course of his entire professional career.
Read MoreHall of Mirrors: Four Films by Warren Sonbert at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Jan. 13
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Hall of Mirrors: Four Films by Warren Sonbert will be showing at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Sunday, 1/13, introduced by experimental poet Alan Benheimer, also in conversation with Steve Anker.
Read MoreGartenberg Media - 2019 New Year's Greetings
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Wishing all of our colleagues, friends and fans of cinema history, ephemera and discovery a hearty, satisfying path into the new year.
Read MoreGME Gem #6: "Something in the photograph comes alive, tells a little story." - Hugh Bell
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Hugh Bell (1927-2012) spent a lot of time doing the thing he liked best, photographing jazz musicians. After graduating from NYU in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Cinematic Art, Bell’s iconic photo “Hot Jazz” was selected by Edward Steichen for inclusion in The Museum of Modern Art's landmark exhibition, The Family of Man, one of the most successful photographic exhibitions of all time.
Read MoreGME archivists assist in exhibition celebrating 125th Anniversary of the Spence School
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GME's long involvement as archivists at The Spence School has led to work involving the school's 125th anniversary exhibition. The exhibition, which focuses on objects from the school's archive brings attention the school's long and rich history.
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Raimondo Borea Picture Used in New Book "Acting in the Academy: The History of Professional Actor Training in US Higher Education"
/A photograph of Raimondo Borea's has been used in the recently published book "Acting in the Academy: The History of Professional Actor Training in US Higher Education," by Peter Zazzali. The picture of Borea's depicts the first graduating class from the Juilliard School's acting program taught by John Houseman and was attended by Kevin Kline (below).
Group 1 of the juilliard school's acting program (c. 1972)
Summary of the Book:
"There are over 150 BFA and MFA acting programs in the US today, nearly all of which claim to prepare students for theatre careers. Peter Zazzali contends that the curricula of these courses represent an ethos that is as outdated as it is limited, given today’s shrinking job market for stage actors.
Acting in the Academy traces the history of actor training in universities to make the case for a move beyond standard courses in voice and speech, movement, or performance, to develop an entrepreneurial model that motivates and encourages students to create their own employment opportunities. This book answers questions such as:
How has the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs shaped actor training in the US?
How have training programmes and the acting profession developed in relation to one another
What impact have these developments had on American acting as an art form?
Acting in the Academy calls for a reconceptualization of actor training the US, and looks to newly empower students of performance with a fresh, original perspective on their professional development."