"THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM"

William John "Bill" Cunningham Jr.
March 13, 1929-June 25, 2016
American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.
(Film Attendee)

“The Times of Bill Cunningham”
What a delightful Film!

Excerpt from Variety
"Only 74 minutes long, yet it’s a snapshot of a life that leaves you grateful for having encountered it. Cunningham insists he wasn’t an artist, and in a way the movie recognizes that he was right. He was a natural photographer who anticipated the digital era, but his gift wasn’t so much for crafting impeccable images. It was a talent for living that he expressed through his lens. He was a reporter who forged his own unique beat: the beauty of other people."
(See Link)

Producers: Mark Bozek, Russell Nuce.
Executive producers: Dan Braun, Brendan FitzGerald, Kathleen FitzGerald, Stephanie Marsil, Michael Phillips, Susan Rockefeller.
Director, screenplay: Mark Bozek.
 Editor: Amina Megalli.
(Amina with Mark Bozek)

"Photographer Bill Cunningham democratized fashion by showing that style wasn't dependent on money or status in his photos for The New York Times."
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Amina Megalli

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Family and Friend~*~
LINKS

Full Variety Review

https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/the-times-of-bill-cunningham-review-1202978349/

Read NPR brief Interview
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647329126/bill-cunningham-and-fashion-climbing

Details of a Life
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cunningham_(American_photographer)

THIS IS NOT A GUN

I recently reconnected with a friend from days of activism

in Film, Video and Photography...

(on location in Central Park holding a camera stand)
...causing me to excavate deep into closets and boxes where my
production work of the Seventies and Eighties has been resting for decades

"When the Bough Breaks", "Ritual", "Packaged for Resale", "Life and Death",
"Women's Work", "Porno-Graphics", "The Nuclear Family Photo Series"

Besides 8mm and 16mm film reels and outtakes,

there is also a box of 3/4 video, three carousels of slides,

ten slide sheets, about twenty boxes of slides,

and another box of large prints I haven't found yet

Unfortunately I no longer own a slide projector, slide viewer or photo loop

so I'm using an improvised means to review the slide outtakes

--clothes pinning or holding them up to one bright light to sample--

these are mostly outtakes with the best shots on the slide carousels

Women's Pentagon Action

Washington D.C. 1981

Joan Braderman
Teacher at SVA Film

Women weave the Pentagon closed with yarn

Nuclear Disarmament

United Nations to Central Park

June 12 1982

Joan Baez

Women's Peace Camp
Seneca New York
Summer Fall 1983

Video from The Women's Peace Camp
An interview with Katherine Allport from the Encampment Archives

http://peacecampherstory.blogspot.com/2015/01/herstory-100-garden-aka-catherine.html
Watch the third video

 

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As I reviewed this material I remembered joy and terror, commitment and courage, a golden time when it seemed possible to invest in hope.  Now massive forces world wide are gathered to fight against that possibility.  We are still at war, still incapable of peaceful coexistence and still disastrously wrong for the planet and all sentient life.  So, what can sustain me but the love of friends, the knowledge that there are still people who care, and that nothing material lasts forever?  What can I do but keep on stepping truthfully and peacefully every day upon the path in front of me?

Meanwhile I'm looking for an archive for this material.

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