Three powerful baby boomer women --- journalist Maria Shriver, playwright Eve Ensler, and historian Julieanna Richardson --- speak about their personal lives and the place of women in society in outtakes from American Masters: The Boomer List, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Maria Shriver: Know Your ...
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began his career as a photographer and The Boomer List is the latest in the list series which he calls his "portraiture come to life," including The Black List, The Latino List, and The Out List about LBGT America. The significance of making ...
In this film outtake, the alternative medicine "guru" Deepak Chopra, M.D. (b.1947), describes his introduction to American medicine in 1970, during his first night as an intern at a New Jersey hospital. Chopra had worked as a doctor in India before immigrating to the United ...
Nineteen iconic baby boomers whose lives, careers and dreams for the future capture the zeitgeist of a generation are the subject of American Masters: The Boomer List, by filmmaker/photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (The Black List, The Latino List, The Out List). This influential generation born between ...
Baby boomer Erin Brockovich (b. 1960) is an advocate for communities and people whose health is adversely affected by environmental pollution, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Although she herself is a famous advocate, in this film outtake she warns that there is no single-person solution to ...
"Every audition I would go to, you know, was either for a drug dealer, a murderer, or a janitor. It'd be me, Benicio del Toro, Luis Guzmán, Benjamin Bratt," says an exasperated John Leguizamo in this film excerpt. The actor and comedian, acclaimed for his ...
10 Things to Learn About Photography and Life from Dorothea Lange 1. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” - Dorothea Lange 2. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea ...
The following book excerpts are from Dorothea Lange – Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography (illustrated; 192 pages) by Elizabeth Partridge. Text used by permission and published by Chronicle Books. Text copyright 2013 by Elizabeth Partridge, all rights reserved. ----- APPRENTICESHIP Despite ...
Photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband were the first to witness and to understand the causes of the huge migration to California in the 1930s: families were escaping the Dust Bowl. In this excerpt, Lange describes photographing the first car arriving in California. American Masters ...
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In 1919 at the age of 24, Dorothea Lange opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco, which was a success and simultaneously became a social gathering spot for artists. American Masters — Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning premieres nationwide Friday, August 29, ...
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