A Documentary Lets the Stories of Black Luminaries Speak for Themselves
By FELICIA R. LEE
“They think I’m Jewish,” he says. “I’m in the Jewish book of famous people. But as far as, you know, on the professional level, I think it’s pretty common knowledge that I’m half black or whatever. I was never really fazed by the, sort of, the color barrier, you know?”
As of September 16, 2008
"The Black List" book is in stores nationwide.
September 16, 2008
Ovation TV
8PM, 11 PM
In this Ovation TV original special, acclaimed photographers Albert Maysles, Sylvia Plachy, Andrew Moore and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders discuss the impact their work has on their lives and on culture as a whole.
"The Black List": Time Warner premiere.
August 12, 2008.
Guests included Rev. Al Sharpton,
Faye Wattleton, Bill T. Jones,
Alan Cumming, Marian Seldes,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
Albert Maysles, and Karen Finley.
Recently, Timothy photographed
Steve Wynn on the 20x24 Polaroid
camera in Las Vegas.
Wynn brought Bill Gates and
Warren Buffett to have
their portraits taken...
http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/2008/06/shooting-the-bo.html
I first met Yves Saint Laurent on
Novermber 1, 1977 at a party
he gave for his new collection.
Andy Warhol was there too.
Twenty-two years later,
Yves Saint Laurent sat for me
after my friend Fern Mallis
urged him to.
We had a wonderful afternoon...
my daughter Isca acted as our
interpretor, as
her French was better than mine.
RIP...YSL
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Marcia E. Vetrocq
Art in America, June/July 2008, 168-175, 208-209
hortly before the conclusion of Shattered Glass, the 2003 film that recounts the downfall of a hot
young journalist at the New Republic who was found to have fabricated the better part of his
reputation-building features, the magazine’s anguished editor receives an assessment of how the
crisis might have been averted from his assistant. “You know what could have prevented all this,
Robert Rauschenberg, dead at 82....
This portrait of Timothy's was taken in 1987
for his exhibition of 20x24 color polaroids at
the Mary Boone Gallery.
By Janice Malone
Photos by Earl Flippen
