Photographers
Jack Mitchell | Hugh Bell | Raimondo Borea
GME has recently taken on representation of the Estates of selected photographers. Our objective is to further the legacy of these artists, to place the collection of photographs with archival institutions, to curate exhibitions of the artists’ work, and to license images for publications and other uses.
Please contact GME’s Fine Arts Curator, David Deitch, at david@gartenbergmedia.com, for all inquiries related to exhibition, loan requests, reproduction rights, or for more information about these collections.
Over the course of a career spanning more than half a century, Jack Mitchell (1925 – 2013) photographed artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers in more than 6,000 individual sessions. His work frequently appeared on the cover of major magazines as well as in newspapers. In the 1960's The New York Times Arts and Leisure editor Seymour Peck and photo editor Lonnie Schlein became aware of Jack Mitchell’s work and began giving him major freelance assignments. Arts Magazine called him the first photographer to treat creative individuals as characters outside of their works.
His portraiture, lighting skill, and ability to capture performers in what he termed "moving stills" made him one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th century. He photographed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater over the course of three decades and was the official photographer of the American Ballet Theater for ten years; he also photographed dancers for other top ballet companies in the US and Canada. His work appeared on more than 160 covers of Dance Magazine.
“When you would go to Jack’s studio there were photographs on the walls of everyone famous that you ever knew. Everyone on Broadway, movie stars, dancers, whatever, and each shot looked like Jack had known them from the day they were born. He pulled the uniqueness out of you regardless of whether you wanted it pulled out of you or not.”
- Judith Jamison, Artistic Director, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Hugh Bell (1927-2012) was a renowned art and commercial photographer of Afro-Caribbean descent, who worked in New York City over the course of his entire professional career. He graduated with a degree in Journalism and Cinematic Art from NYU in 1952. His photograph “Hot Jazz” from the same year was later included in “The Family of Man” exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. Bell is most well known for his numerous photographs of jazz greats (“Jazz Giants” series) many of which appeared in books and on vinyl record covers. He also photographed the female figure (“Bell’s Belles”), as well as boxing matches, theater performances, bullfights, daily life in Spain and Afro-Caribbean culture. He worked with and photographed cinéma vérité filmmaker Richard Leacock and his family, in addition to numerous cultural icons, including Ernest Hemingway, Lauren Bacall and Geoffrey Holder. A number of his photographic essays appeared in magazines ranging from Avant-Garde to Esquire. Bell also created numerous print advertisements and television commercials that were especially geared toward the African-American community.
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Over a 40-year career of active photography, Raimondo Borea (1926 – 1982) amassed an impressive body of photographs that are virtually unknown today. And yet, his creative output permeated all areas of fine art photography, television, music, book publishing, and advertising.
He was professionally affiliated with the Village Camera Club, the Circle of Confusion, the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) and the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASMP). He created photographic essays on The Boys’ Towns of Italy (Rome), Washington Market and the dismantling of the Third Avenue El (New York City), and other human interest stories. He also had exclusive access to the television broadcasts Firing Line, The Today Show, and The Tonight Show, where he captured candid portraits of the show’s hosts, guests, and behind-the-scenes activities.
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