Archive for August 4th, 2010

last roll of Kodachrome, this is kansas

August 4, 2010

Photographer Steve McCurry Shoots De Niro, Brooklyn, India on Last Kodachrome Roll

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ROCHESTER, NY (AP).- What should a photographer shoot when he’s entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with the fabled film’s richly saturated colors, shied away. But Robert De Niro stood in for the world of filmmaking. Then McCurry headed from his base in New York City to southern Asia, where in 1984 he shot a famous portrait of a green-eyed Afghan refugee girl that made the cover of National Geographic. In India, he snapped a tribe whose nomadic way of life is disappearing — just as Kodachrome is.

see a link to The Wichita Eagle where the last Kodachrome lab exists Dwayne’s Photo Service or listen on NPR’s blog which also has some of McCurry’s India photographic work on a slide show. i’ve seen large prints of McCurry’s India studies at the Friends Without A Border auctions which we, Mary Wehrhahn and i belong to also donating prints of our work towards this wonderful charity which supports a children’s hospital in Cambodia which was first started by photographer Kenro Izu for the children of Cambodia whom he first met at Ankor Wat while photographing this amazing place. it is an infectious place.

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Affordable Art Fair NYC Launching First Annual Fall Fair

August 4, 2010

NEW YORK, NY.- Following the record-breaking sales and attendance at the Affordable Art Fair New York City (AAF NYC) this spring, AAF NYC will launch its first annual Fall event in Manhattan from September 30 – October 3, 2010 at 7W New York ( 7 West 34th Street ). With AAF NYC now occurring twice a year, the fair will provide even more opportunities for emerging art collectors to view and purchase affordable art. AAF NYC Fall 2010 will appeal to both established collectors and first time buyers by presenting contemporary art priced from $100 – $10,000 by over 60 international and local galleries offering original paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. Offering all new works of art this fall, there will be something for everyone!

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Library of Congress Places William P. Gottlieb’s Iconic Jazz Images on Flickr

August 4, 2010

Washington, DC – In the late 1930s, a Golden Age of Jazz started to emerge, as hard economic times began to fade

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Airwaves were pulsating with jazz and record sales were rising.  Legends like Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and many more were on the scene – and so was William P.Gottlieb.Equipped with a bulky Speed Graphic camera, Gottlieb, a young columnist for the Washington Post and later a writer for Down Beat magazine, photographed jazz musicians and performers, capturing classic images that are well-known today.  Gottlieb photographed the jazz greats from 1938 to 1948.

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the end or an era, where in manhattan do artist fit in?

August 4, 2010

Last Carnegie Hall Resident, Elizabeth Sargent, Forced Out of Carnegie Towers

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In this image taken Thursday Aug. 2 , 2007, New York photographer Editta Sherman, then 95, stacks celebrity portraits at her studio residence in New York’s Carnegie Hall. The Italian-born Sherman, 98, who photographed famous faces from Monroe and Andy Warhol to Elvis Presley and called the “Duchess of Carnegie Hall” for being its longest resident, was forced from the studio she called home since 1948. She’s not been allowed to sleep there since early July and must also remove her belongings by Aug. 31. A resident since 1949, she raised five children in a studio with 25-foot ceilings and a view of Central Park. Her rent was frozen at $650 a month.- AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

NEW YORK (AP).- All of her neighbors are gone, forced out. Now Elizabeth Sargent, the last holdout tenant of Carnegie Hall’s towers, is preparing to leave the her affordable studios that for more than a century housed some of America’s most brilliant creative artists. Red scaffolding surrounds Carnegie Hall as the city-owned towers are being gutted this summer in a $200 million renovation that includes adding a youth music program. Celebrities like Robert De Niro and Susan Sarandon had fought to save the homes, petitioning the city not to “displace these treasured artists and master teachers.”

Musicians, painters, dancers and actors thrived in the two towers built by 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie just after the hall went up in 1891. The towers—one 12 stories high, the other 16—housed more than 100 studios, some with special skylights installed to give painters the northern light they prize.

Ms. Sargent, a one-time dancer, is now in her 80s and in remission from cancer. For 40 years, she’s lived on the ninth floor of the red-brick southern tower above the famed stage of the 119-year-old landmark. She has until Aug. 31 to clear out.

After a years-long legal battle, the two women finally reached agreement for new Midtown Manhattan apartments where rents will be subsidized by Carnegie Hall Corp. for the rest of their lives.

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