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Following the release of Fellini’s masterpiece, LA DOLCE VITA, in 1960, photographer Raimondo Borea, traveling on assignment for NBC’s Today, captured this portrait of himself (center) with the director (right) and Today’s Dave Garroway (left) in the Piazza Navona. LA DOLCE VITA screens at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday, 1/9/22.
Read MoreIn 2021, Borea’s grandson, Adam Brown, accessed images of the the City is a Stage photo essay from GME to create this animated tribute to his grandfather.
Read MorePremiering March 30th, the PBS special series THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD presents the story of the horrific beating of a Black army sergeant during WWII that ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement. Pictured above, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark was an important expert witness in Briggs v. Elliott (1952), one of five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Read MoreGartenberg Media presents this striking photograph by Raimondo Borea of Republican party icon Nelson Rockefeller recalling a time in U.S. political history of wider debate and less partisan rancor.
Read MoreCommon, as depicted in this photo by Hugh Bell, is among the list of performers that will appear this week at the Democratic National Convention.
GME is also happy to share some of it’s images of historical Democratic party icons as photographed by Raimondo Borea.
GME is also pleased to present a rare audio recording during John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, which comes from GME’s archive of original campaign commercials for television and radio.
Read MoreJames Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-twentieth-century United States.
Read MoreGartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is honored to memorialize the passing last week of entertainment giant Hugh Downs by presenting a rare visual essay, “A Day in the Night of Hugh Downs,” photographed by Raimondo Borea. Hugh Downs was a regular television presence from the 1940’s through the 1990’s. He was an announcer for Tonight Starring Jack Paar from 1957 to 1962, co-host of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999.
Read MoreRecently, 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 MoreRaimondo Borea’s 1979 portrait of author, activist and notable public intellectual James Baldwin.
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s arresting, untitled photo of a woman in the Subway, and other photos from his distinctive NYC photo essays, have been presented on the Today Show by Hugh Downs.
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