Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from GME!
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As 2023 comes to a close, GME would like to wish all of our friends and colleagues happy holidays and a healthy new year!
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GME Presents A Selection of Photos Of Queer Celebrities By Jack Mitchell In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month
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Jack Mitchell (September 13th, 1925—November 7th, 2013) chronicled, over the course of his half-century professional career, a unique history of creators in the fields of dance, theater, music, the fine arts, film, and television. Within this impressive body of work exist images of celebrated individuals whose public and private lives represent a broad spectrum of queer identity.
Read MoreGME Notes the Recent Passing of Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist Harry Belafonte
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Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96.
Read More30th Anniversary of Choreographer Agnes de Mille’s Death Commemorated at 92nd Street Y
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A group of experts — Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, Ted Chapin, Elena Zahlmann, and Diana Byer — who have all been closely involved with de Mille’s choreographic and written works, celebrate de Mille’s major contribution to American dance and its cultural heritage, and explore how these contributions are still relevant today in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Agnes de Mille’s death in a live, online course presented by Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y.
Read MoreGME Notes the Recent Passing of Artist and Filmmaker Alfred Leslie
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The iconoclastic figurative painter amidst the surging reign of abstract expressionist painters of the 1960, Alfred Leslie was also a noted filmmaker, especially well-known for his films THE CEDAR TAVERN (1952, from his own play of the same title), and the definitive Beat film, PULL MY DAISY (1959), made with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and other luminaries from the scene.
Read MoreAlex Katz Photos from the Jack Mitchell Collection in Conjunction with his Paintings at the Guggenheim Museum
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GME would like to share some photographs by Jack Mitchell of the artist Alex Katz alongside the exhibition, currently at the Guggenheim Museum, of 8 decades of Katz’s portraits, social scenes, and landscapes, which capture the immediacy of visual perception in his paintings.
Read MoreGME Notes the Recent Passing of Claes Oldenburg and Ivana Trump
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Two bold-face named New Yorkers passed this week, individuals who personified their respective areas of interest, one in the arts and the other in the art of public perception. Both were among the iconic subjects of photographer Jack Mitchell’s camera. 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.
Read MoreGME Celebrates the Legacy of Photographer Jack Mitchell During Pride Month
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As Pride month comes to a close, GME celebrates the legacy of photographer Jack Mitchell. In 1957 Jack met Bob Pavlik. Within a few weeks they moved together into a large apartment at East 74th Street and York Avenue that afforded them adequate space for a photography studio and darkroom. Bob became Jack’s business and life partner. 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.
Read MoreGME is Proud to Announce our Exclusive Partnership with the Jack Mitchell Archive
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Over the course of a career spanning more than half a century, Jack Mitchell (1925 – 2013) photographed dancers, artists, musicians, writers, and film and theatre performers, in more than 6,000 individual sessions. As part of GME’s ongoing commitment to further the legacy of photographers and their work, we are proud to announce an exclusive partnership with the Jack Mitchell Archives. Our goal is to place this unique and comprehensive collection with a major cultural institution, to secure high-profile exhibitions of his photographs worldwide, and to make available the licensing rights to these reproduced images.
Read MoreHAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM GME AND RUDOLF
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Rudoph Nureyev photo session Christmas Day 1975 by Jack Mitchell for After Dark magazine
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