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Remembering Pulse at P Towns Swim 4 Life
Filmmaker Brandon Cordeiro was in New York the day after the massacre at the Pulse Club in Orlando and immediately on hearing the news, he became one of organizers of the spontaneous Vigil held later that day outside the Stonewall Inn. Later back home in Provincetown he decided that an appropriate way to both memorialize…
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Don Whitman’s 1950’s Beefcake Photographs
Don Whitman was one of the leading exponents of male physique photography back in the days when censorship and society in general expected the models to keep a modicum of decency in their poses. When he left the Navy after WW2 in 1947 he started the Western Photography Guild which remained active for the next…
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Southwest of Salem : The Story of The San Antonio Four
This is one of those hard-to-believe it’s true stories that never really grabbed the attention of the media so when you come to it ignorance and it unfolds on the screen and you hear the horrifying incredulous details, you cannot fail to be stunned into a combination of shock and anger. The latter particularly if you…
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Carmen Herrera : 101 Years Old and still making Art.
One of the current Exhibitions on at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in NY is Carmen Herrera : Lines of Sight. The fact that you may not have heard of this Cuban-American minimalist abstract artist is not because she is a new kid on the block, but just the fact that for most of her…
