GME Presents A Selection of Photos Of Queer Celebrities By Jack Mitchell In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month

GME Presents A Selection of Photos Of Queer Celebrities By Jack Mitchell In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month

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.

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Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

Today, October 21st, is Home Movie Day. An essential work in the “home movie” genre is Mark Rappaport’s 1992 collage film ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES, currently available for North American institutional acquisition, as both a DSL file and DVD, from GME.

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GME Remembers Pioneering Activist, Author, and Film Historian Vito Russo This LGBTQ+ History Month

GME Remembers Pioneering Activist, Author, and Film Historian Vito Russo This LGBTQ+ History Month

Vito Russo may be best known today as the author of the seminal book THE CELLULOID CLOSET, which examines the history of depictions of homosexuality in Hollywood films. Russo, however, had a long career as a film historian, archivist, and activist. GME President Jon Gartenberg worked with Russo at MoMA, and later appeared in the 2011 HBO documentary about his life, titled VITO. Gartenberg recalls: “What struck me about Vito was that he appeared to be completely comfortable in his own skin, which undoubtedly enabled him to be at the forefront of gay activism.”

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GME Remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein This LGBTQ+ History Month

GME Remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein This LGBTQ+ History Month

GME remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein, who passed away on September 29th at the age of 90. Feinstein was celebrated for her advocacy, in general, of the queer community and LGBTQ+ rights. She was also captured on film by Warren Sonbert, an experimental filmmaker whose work included depictions of gay life on screen, as well as encoded in the subtext of a number of his films, and whose films are exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Feinstein appears briefly in Sonbert’s 1981 film NOBLESSE OBLIGE, described by GME President Jon Gartenberg as “a masterfully edited work that features imagery Sonbert photographed of protests in San Francisco following the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk at the hands of White.”

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A Look at GME's Hugh Bell Photo Collection In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month

A Look at GME's Hugh Bell Photo Collection In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month

On the occasion of October being LGBTQ+ History Month, GME reflects on gems from our photo collections that were taken by queer photographers and/or spotlight the beauty and diversity of queer communities over the past several decades. First up is Hugh Bell, a highly-prolific visual artist whose candid images of LGBTQ+ community members in the 1980s and ‘90s remain potent historical artifacts.

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

Since the success of our Warren Sonbert retrospective at MoMA earlier this year, there has been renewed international interest in the artist’s extraordinary life and body of work, as evidenced by the forthcoming exhibition Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song at WIELS in Brussels. Gartenberg Media Enterprises has granted permission for Richards to include Sonbert’s 1966 masterpiece AMPHETAMINE in this program — with a brand new score — which plays on Saturday, September 9th, and Sunday, September 10th, 2023.

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Enjoy All Tomorrow's Holiday Parties with Scenes and Bonus Materials Licensed from GME for Criterion's Blu-Ray Release of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Enjoy All Tomorrow's Holiday Parties with Scenes and Bonus Materials Licensed from GME for Criterion's Blu-Ray Release of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

GME is happy to announce Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray release of Todd Haynes celebrated documentary THE VELVET UNDERGOUND, for which we have provided both numerous clip licenses (for the documentary) and additional films included in the Blu-ray bonus features.  These extras include the complete Jonas Mekas film AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964, 9 min) and a 7 minute excerpt from Mekas' landmark 1969 diary film collection WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES.

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Recent Raimondo Borea and Hugh Bell Photo Licenses and Exhibition News

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, 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.

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Hugh Bell Photos Chosen for A Picture Gallery of the Soul Exhibition at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery

Hugh Bell Photos Chosen for A Picture Gallery of the Soul Exhibition at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery

The University of Minnesota gallery will present two photos by Hugh Bell in their upcoming fall exhibition, a group exhibition of over 100 Black American artists whose work incorporates the photographic medium.

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Claes Oldenburg and Ivana Trump

GME Notes the Recent Passing of Claes Oldenburg and Ivana Trump

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.

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