July 09, 2019

GME GEM 15 - JONAS MEKAS DISCUSSES JON GARTENBERG'S WORK ON WARREN SONBERT'S LEGACY

July 09, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

In a moving video letter to curator John Hanhardt, LETTER TO JOHN FROM JONAS (1999), in which he stresses the need for Anthology Film Archives to resist the option of merging with the Guggenheim Museum, Jonas Mekas discusses the shift away from Anthology's role as the sole preservationist of experimental cinema, and, by example, the important work of Jon Gartenberg’s preservation of Warren Sonbert’s estate following Sonbert’s untimely death in 1995.

June 25, 2019

Photos by Hugh Bell in Commemoration of National Caribbean American Heritage Month

June 25, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Hugh Bell was of St. Lucian ancestry, and quite a number of his photographs focused on his Afro-Caribbean roots.

June 03, 2019

GME Gem #13: Gartenberg Media Celebrates Pride Month 2019 with Photos by Hugh Bell

June 03, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Hugh Bell (1927-2012) was born in New York to parents who emigrated from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He spent a lot of time doing the thing he liked best, photographing jazz musicians, through which he gained notoriety while in his twenties. Hugh Bell also focused on documenting Gay Pride, Wigstock, and the Greenwich Village Halloween parade during the 1980s and 1990s.

March 10, 2019

Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) in Dirty Looks: Eight Years On Touring Winter Series

March 10, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

The Dirty Looks: Eight Years On winter tour runs from March 10 - April 24 across the U.S. and into Canada.

February 26, 2019

Warren Sonbert’s Propulsive Cinema in Art in America Magazine

February 26, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Sonbert’s films consist of relentless montage. Scenes burst forth and quickly give way to the next. They inhabit the fringe of narrative, almost telling a story but never conveying character, conflict, or plot.

February 08, 2019

In commemoration of Black History Month - Jean Genet ’s THE BLACKS photographed by Hugh Bell

February 08, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Hugh Bell was a renowned art and commercial photographer, who worked in New York City over the course of his entire professional career.

January 10, 2019

Hall of Mirrors: Four Films by Warren Sonbert at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Jan. 13

January 10, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Hall of Mirrors: Four Films by Warren Sonbert will be showing at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Sunday, 1/13, introduced by experimental poet Alan Benheimer, also in conversation with Steve Anker.

January 03, 2019

Gartenberg Media - 2019 New Year's Greetings

January 03, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Wishing all of our colleagues, friends and fans of cinema history, ephemera and discovery a hearty, satisfying path into the new year.

May 31, 2018

GME Gem #6: "Something in the photograph comes alive, tells a little story." - Hugh Bell

May 31, 2018/ Jon Gartenberg

Hugh Bell (1927-2012) spent a lot of time doing the thing he liked best, photographing jazz musicians. After graduating from NYU in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Cinematic Art, Bell’s iconic photo “Hot Jazz” was selected by Edward Steichen for inclusion in The Museum of Modern Art's landmark exhibition, The Family of Man, one of the most successful photographic exhibitions of all time.

April 04, 2017

GME archivists assist in exhibition celebrating 125th Anniversary of the Spence School

April 04, 2017/ Alex Westhelle

GME's long involvement as archivists at The Spence School has led to work involving the school's 125th anniversary exhibition. The exhibition, which focuses on objects from the school's archive brings attention the school's long and rich history.

https://www.spenceschool.org/page/news-detail?pk=885273&fromId=173165

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