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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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The Ghosts of Harlem (2009)

The French edition of The Ghosts of Harlem was very successful in France but Filipacchi’s production was so upscale that when it came time to find a US publisher to whom they could license it there were no takers because of the cost. The result was there was no English-language edition.

In 2005 I was visiting with Ahmet Ertegun and at one point he asked me about The Ghosts of Harlem and why there was no English-language edition. I explained that Filipacchi held the rights and that no US publisher could afford to license it. He said, “This book should be available in English.” He then asked his assistant to make a telephone call, which in this case was to his old friend, Daniel Filipacchi. He suggested that I should be given the rights back to the book so I could pursue a publisher in the United States. Filipacchi agreed and within a couple of months I had the paperwork in hand.

I got lucky with a publisher. David Berger suggested I contact the Vanderbilt University Press. This fine company had just published Playing The Changes, a book about the life and photographs of Milt Hinton that he’d created with Holly Maxson. Vanderbilt signed on immediately and I was on my way.

I rewrote some of the text, took many more pictures in Harlem to contrast the early 1990s with 2007 and included a new “ghost,” Dr. Billy Taylor. The book was published in May 2009 and is currently in print.

 

 

Please visit The Ghosts of Harlem section of the Special Photography Projects Gallery >>