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Recently, Raimondo 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.
Read MoreFrom 1998 to the present, GME has developed and implemented a project to catalogue and digitize thousands of historic photographs, documents, publications, moving images, and other items from the Spence School archives.
In a moving video letter to curator John Hanhardt, LETTER TO JOHN FROM JONAS (1999), in which he stresses the need for Anthology Film Archives to resist the option of merging with the Guggenheim Museum, Jonas Mekas discusses the shift away from Anthology's role as the sole preservationist of experimental cinema, and, by example, the important work of Jon Gartenberg’s preservation of Warren Sonbert’s estate following Sonbert’s untimely death in 1995.
Read MoreHugh Bell was of St. Lucian ancestry, and quite a number of his photographs focused on his Afro-Caribbean roots.
Read MoreHugh 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 MoreThe Dirty Looks: Eight Years On winter tour runs from March 10 - April 24 across the U.S. and into Canada.
Read MoreSonbert’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 MoreHugh 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 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 MoreWishing all of our colleagues, friends and fans of cinema history, ephemera and discovery a hearty, satisfying path into the new year.
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