Recent Raimondo Borea and Hugh Bell Photo Licenses and Exhibition News

GME 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. The portrait image of Garroway will appear on the book’s cover.


In addition, GME has recently concluded deals for the inclusion of 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, which, in addition to work by Hugh Bell, includes photos by James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems, among dozens of others. The book will be published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a subsidiary of W. W. Norton & Company.


Sarah Vaughan (1955)

 

LGBT Drag (ca. 1980s-1990s)

 

And, as previously announced, The University of Minnesota Katherine E. Nash Gallery, which included two photos by Hugh Bell in their exhibition, A Picture Gallery of the Soul, of over 100 Black American artists whose work incorporates the photographic medium, is currently open to the public through December 10. The accompanying exhibition catalog, which includes the Sarah Vaughan photo and a biography of Hugh Bell, is available here.

Gartenberg Media is the exclusive representative for the Estates of Raimondo Borea and Hugh Bell. For information about purchasing or licensing photographs by Raimondo Borea or Hugh Bell, or from GME’s extensive motion picture offerings, please write info@gartenbergmedia.com.


All photographs © The Estate of Hugh Bell and © The Estate of Raimondo Borea