GME LICENSES STILLS FROM WARREN SONBERT'S "AMPHETAMINE" FOR DR. MAURICE NAGINGTON'S BOOK "THE MORAL LESSONS OF CHEMSEX: A CRITICAL APPROACH"

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GME LICENSES STILLS FROM WARREN SONBERT'S "AMPHETAMINE" FOR DR. MAURICE NAGINGTON'S BOOK "THE MORAL LESSONS OF CHEMSEX: A CRITICAL APPROACH"

Two stills from Warren Sonbert’s debut film AMPHETAMINE (1966) will appear in Dr. Maurice Nagington’s forthcoming book The Moral Lessons of Chemsex: A Critical Approach, due to be published in 2025 by Routledge. The stills from Sonbert’s film that have been licensed from Gartenberg Media Enterprises — which depict young gay men using intravenous drugs — are well-suited for Nagington’s book, which “explores how gay and bi men’s lived experiences of chemsex intersect with its cultural representations.”

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GME LICENSED RAIMONDO BOREA'S PHOTOGRAPH OF SHARI LEWIS AND LAMB CHOP FOR 2023 DOCUMENTARY

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GME LICENSED RAIMONDO BOREA'S PHOTOGRAPH OF SHARI LEWIS AND LAMB CHOP FOR 2023 DOCUMENTARY

For Lisa D’Apolito’s 2023 documentary SHARI & LAMB CHOP, GME licensed Raimondo Borea’s photograph of famed ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children’s entertainer Shari Lewis appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s with her beloved anthropomorphic sheep sock puppet Lamb Chop.

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RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN DARREN NEWBURY'S BOOK "COLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC DIPLOMACY"

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RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN DARREN NEWBURY'S BOOK "COLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC DIPLOMACY"

Raimondo Borea’s photograph "African students at Friends World College”, taken on August 9th, 1963, appears on page 192 in Darren Newbury’s book COLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC DIPLOMACY, published in 2024 by Pennsylvania State University Press.

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THELONIUS MONK, BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR DEBORAH WILLIS' "ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK"

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THELONIUS MONK, BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR DEBORAH WILLIS' "ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK"

MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow Deborah Willis updated 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 published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a wholly subsidiary of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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LEADER OF THE PACK ALBUM COVER PHOTO BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR PHYLLIS NAGY ABORTION DRAMA FEATURE

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LEADER OF THE PACK ALBUM COVER PHOTO BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR PHYLLIS NAGY ABORTION DRAMA FEATURE

This 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.

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HUGH BELL PHOTO EARLY MORNING PUBLISHED IN BUZZFEED NEWS

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HUGH BELL PHOTO EARLY MORNING PUBLISHED IN BUZZFEED NEWS

Hugh 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”.

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BUZZFEED NEWS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LGBTQ HISTORY & CULTURE WITH PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL

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BUZZFEED NEWS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LGBTQ HISTORY & CULTURE WITH PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL

Hugh 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.

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SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTO BY HUGH BELL INCLUDED IN FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA KATHERINE E. NASH GALLERY

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SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTO BY HUGH BELL INCLUDED IN FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA KATHERINE E. NASH GALLERY

Over 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.

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RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTO OF JUILLIARD SCHOOL USED IN PETER ZAZZALI’S BOOK "ACTING IN THE ACADEMY: THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING IN US HIGHER EDUCATION"

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RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTO OF JUILLIARD SCHOOL USED IN PETER ZAZZALI’S BOOK "ACTING IN THE ACADEMY: THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING IN US HIGHER EDUCATION"

Raimondo 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.

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