by George Horse Capture Beginning in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the "Shadow Catcher" as he was later called by some of the tribes, took over 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over eighty American Indian ...
"Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed." - Elia Kazan A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of ...
Among the celebrated pantheon of Hollywood royalty, few are as well-respected and universally adored as Gregory Peck. For more than fifty years, he was a major presence in the theater, on television, and most importantly, on the big screen. For many, Peck was a symbol ...
AMERICAN MASTERS online sat down with "Alfred Stieglitz" filmmaker Perry Miller Adato. Q: Did you always want to make a film about Alfred Stieglitz? To be frank, no. For many years I resisted the Stieglitz subject. I had produced and directed a widely-seen hour-length documentary ...
Early in the twentieth century a new spirit appeared in American life... It was a spirit of change, of dissent--in some minds, the spirit even of revolution. Predominantly it was an upsurge of hopefulness. New directions seemed possible not only in politics and the arts, ...
