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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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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