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Watch a short documentary of The Richard Hambleton Retrospective featuring the photography of Hank O'Neal at Phillips de Pury , New York City from September 9 through the 13th, 2011 presented by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida in collaboration with Phillips De Pury & Giorgio Armani.  Click here

 

Hank's photographs of Richard Hambleton as featured in the June issue of Bliss Magazine.  Download the PDF here: Bliss article

 

Hank's latest show: Portraits 1970-2010 at The Lancaster Museum of Fine Art. This one man photographic exhibition features noted portraits Hank has taken over the last four decades.  The show will run through February 27th.  For more information please visit the museums web site here: http://www.lmapa.org/exh.html

Hank's Portrait of Robert Indiana during his reception at the Four Season's Restaurant in New York City, featured in Art in America: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2011-01-26/robert-indiana-hope-four-seasons/

Hank's Photographs of Richard Hambleton's Shadow Men on display @ The Dairy, London:  http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/12/viewpoints-openings-richard-hambleton-pop-up-show-the-dairy-london/img_3876_p-nguyen/

 

Hank's photography graced the facade of the AMFAR pavillion, Cap D'Atibes France, May 20, 2010

C-Span July 2010 —The American Association of University Professors, features The Ghosts Of Harlem American Edition as one of it's choices for The "Best of The Best" University Editions. "The Best of The Bests" Program program, offers librarians the opportunity to share advice and recommendations with their colleagues, and recognizes the valuable contribution that university press books can make to both public and secondary school libraries. (note:The Ghosts of Harlem feature begins at 11:40 and ends at 14:40) :Please Have a look at the video here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294474-1

Jazz Times Interview June 2010 — Hank O’Neal: Chasing Ghosts

ArtNews Article, March 2010, Friendships In Focus - Berenice Abbott, PDF

Hank O'Neal's Lower East Side Project Featured On Swiss T.V.

Seventh Man Magazine - "Richard Hambleton — New York" in Milan

Featured Artist on Valmorbida.com

Artists We Love, Featured Photographs of Richard Hambleton Street Art

Swide, Hank O'Neal's Portraits of Richard Hambleton, showing in Milan

oneartworld.com - Featuring Hank O'Neal's Richard Hambleton Related Prints for Sale

Abitare - Richard Hambleton in Milan featuring a portrait by Hank O'Neal

 

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Portraits F - I

In January 2002, Al Hirschfeld was 98, heading towards 99 and didn’t seem a day over 95. There was nothing old about Hirschfeld, his magical drawings were as good as ever, he worked all day on the top floor of his town house, drove his car about Manhattan and always seemed to find a parking place.

I had always wanted to take a photograph of this legendary New Yorker, but there was always some impediment. Then, through the gracious intercession of Marge Champion, all the previous problems vanished. We seemed to hit it off; Shelley Shier was with me and within a moment or two it seemed Herschfeld and his wife, Louise, and Shelley and I were old friends. While Shelley and Louise discussed matters theatrical, I sat up my old wooden camera in front of Hirschfeld’s drafting table. He thought it was amusing. Just me, and an old wooden camera. No lights, no electronics or machines. He told me the week before a major news magazine had come up for a shoot. They had six people, a van full of equipment and took three or four hours.

I took half a dozen black and white pictures, then a few in color. I asked Louise to join her husband for a couple. Later, Louise told me they liked the pictures just as much as the CDs I’d left behind, most by old time jazz pianists. My guess is the reason this one worked is because Hirschfeld could relate more to an old wooden camera than to a van of electronics.