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Gered Mankowitz

Traveling Your World

Published in Melissa Magazine, Eleventh Edition

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Here are four people from all over the world who, ready or not, have expanded their horizons by leaving home and traveling the globe. I’d like to introduce you to these travelers, educators, volunteers, writers, and artists that have experienced the immense highs and the repairable lows that leaving your home country has to offer. One thing all of these people have in common is their desire to see more, and their ability to help the world come together, one traveler at a time......

The Experience: Jimi Hendrix at Mason’s Yard is a collection of black and white photographs of Jimi and his new-formed band at the dawn of their career. After only two sessions with the band, Mankowitz manages to capture the synergy of the visual expression of sound amidst the zeitgeist of the times. With these images, we are witness to the genesis of the band’s unique success.....

Billy Name: The Silver Era at Warhol's Factory

Published in Manipresto Press, Issue #2, Sao Paul, Brazil

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Humble and soft-spoken, yet completely direct: the bearded man sitting before me has clearly led a unique existence. I can hardly conjure the questions in my mind about his talent, experiences, tales of what it was like to work with those denizens at the center of the 60’s avant-garde movement, “The Factory”. While sitting there, I catch a glimpse of this magic in his eyes in that one brief moment when he takes off his shades to scratch his forehead. This is the man behind the evocative photographs I've seen. This is Andy Warhol's friend, his partner. This is Billy Name...

Breaking The Rules: The 60's Revolution of Art (An Artist on Artists)

Published in Lid Magazine, Issue #16

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The 60's were a time of revolution. The order of the staid 50's was utterly obliterated and it was the art world that was the catalyst of this movement. Artists like Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Claes Oldenburg and David Hockney, like butterflies, emerged from this great cocoon with their visual display of color, chaos and irreverence, challenging the buttoned-down rules of the last decade...

Dennis Stock: American Cool

Michael Cooper: The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, 1969

Published in The Waverly Press, Issue #10

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Mick Jagger's flamboyant dance moves, Keith Richards' distant glare through the haze of cigarette smoke, the focused intensity of Bill Wyman, and a young Mick Taylor's novice exuberance: Michael captured the intimacy of it all. You could taste those cigarettes, feel the stinging heat of the sun, and hear the beat of the tribal drums pounding along to “Sympathy for the Devil”. Michael had an innate ability to not only get inside your head, but also, right beside it...

Dennis Stock: American Cool

Published in Lid Magazine, Issue #17

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A premiere member of the Magnum photographic agency, Dennis Stock is probably best known for his portraits of Jazz musicians and Hollywood stars of the 1950’s. He had a keen eye that brought his subjects to vivid life. A true artist, Stock could simultaneously capture the dangerous sensuality of James Dean, the regal elegance of Grace Kelly, and the smoldering cool of Miles Davis. It was this very state of cool that his photographic eye was most attuned to...

Michael Cooper: Keith Richards at Joshua Tree

Published in Lid Magazine, Issue #17

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Michael Cooper was a photographer who demonstrated great spontaneity in his work. He had a knack for capturing his subjects au natural, even when posed. A composer behind the camera, it seemed appropriate to have an orchestral personality like Keith Richards in the viewfinder. In 1969, Michael and Keith, along with their posse of fellow musicians, artists and assorted eccentrics, retreated to a most secluded, peaceful area of California, The Joshua Tree National Monument. This extraordinary desert is where Michael captured some of his most enchanted images...

Baron Wolman: Profiles

Published in Lid Magazine, Issue #17

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1974, in his small Mill Valley, California, studio, Baron set up a couple of lights, a seamless background, and with his longtime camera of choice, a Nikon, he went to work on a new photographic project: 44 different portraits of women’s breast in profile.........

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