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A wealth of never-before-seen footage in offers a gripping and intimate portrait of Thelonious Monk in Paris, 1969. The legendary pianist and composer arrives for a TV interview before his evening concert, where he is met with racist, colonialist acts both large and small.
Read MoreGartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is honored to memorialize the recent passing of Barbara Walters, who broke barriers for women as the first female co-host of the “Today” show and the first female anchor of a network evening news program, and who as an interviewer of celebrities became one herself, helping to blur the line between news and entertainment.
Read MoreGME has licensed two of Raimondo Borea’s unique, behind the scenes photos of Dave Garroway, the original host and Anchor of NBC’s TODAY for an upcoming Bear Manor Media book by Jodie Peeler, and 3 iconic jazz photographs by Hugh Bell of Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday for the new edition of 'ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK,' Deborah Willis updating of her 2000 groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life.
Read MorePhotographer Raimondo Borea covered a wide range of subjects, from iconic celebrity and historic figures captured during his tenure as the set photographer on Firing Line, The Today Show, and The Tonight Show, to candid portraits of orphaned and homeless war children housed in the Boys’ Towns of Italy, and to his work with the photographic group the Circle of Confusion, with its focus on social documentary.
Read MoreBroadway theaters have always been named for giants of the stage—including, to name a few, Eugene O’Neill, George and Ira Gershwin, and Neil Simon. Historically, however, few Black artists have received this honor. Now, in a historic first, a Broadway theater will be named for a Black woman: singer and actress Lena Horne.
Read MoreDick Carson, a television director who worked on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” and was the younger brother to the show’s host, died on Dec. 19, 2021, following a brief illness. He was 92.
Read MoreFollowing the release of Fellini’s masterpiece, LA DOLCE VITA, in 1960, photographer Raimondo Borea, traveling on assignment for NBC’s Today, captured this portrait of himself (center) with the director (right) and Today’s Dave Garroway (left) in the Piazza Navona. LA DOLCE VITA screens at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday, 1/9/22.
Read MoreIn 2021, Borea’s grandson, Adam Brown, accessed images of the the City is a Stage photo essay from GME to create this animated tribute to his grandfather.
Read MorePremiering March 30th, the PBS special series THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD presents the story of the horrific beating of a Black army sergeant during WWII that ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement. Pictured above, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark was an important expert witness in Briggs v. Elliott (1952), one of five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Read MoreGartenberg Media presents this striking photograph by Raimondo Borea of Republican party icon Nelson Rockefeller recalling a time in U.S. political history of wider debate and less partisan rancor.
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