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Robert Gerhardt

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Covers:  Photography, Photojournalism, Press Freedom, Civil Rights, Social Justice
Photojournalist | Journalist, Blind Magazine | Freelance Arts Writer, New York Amsterdam News | Freelance Contributor, The Trace | Member FCC HK | Member NPPA

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I’m an internationally minded photographer and writer currently based in New York City. For more than 20 twenty years, I have worked as a photographer in the documentary, photojournalism, corporate, and cultural heritage fields. I have extensive experience in image editing; pitching original stories; collaborating with editors and photographers; project researching; interviewing; and licensing and sourcing photographs.

I’m a diehard news junkie with an avid interest in current events and intern…

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'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures': A trove of jazz photo treasures finally sees the light

'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures': A trove of jazz photo treasures finally sees the light

This new book presents nearly 200 beautifully printed photographs and tells the story of the largely unknown …

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Photog's decade's-long career is love letter to urban spaces and community

Photog's decade's-long career is love letter to urban spaces and community

The Bronx Documentary Center is presenting a comprehensive survey of Martha Cooper’s nearly six-decade career…

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LA's Getty Museum presents 'Photography and the Black Arts Movement'

LA's Getty Museum presents 'Photography and the Black Arts Movement'

"Photography and the Black Arts Movement" explores the role photography played in fostering Black empowerment.

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Devin Allen's Raw Baltimore

Devin Allen's Raw Baltimore

Photographer Devin Allen's new book Baltimore is in many ways a love letter to the city he calls home.

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Bearing Witness: Sudanese Photographers Document a Forgotten War

Bearing Witness: Sudanese Photographers Document a Forgotten War

A group photography exhibition that charts the arc from the 2019 revolution in Sudan through the ongoing war,…

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Catherine Leroy: One Way Ticket to Vietnam 1966-1968

Catherine Leroy: One Way Ticket to Vietnam 1966-1968

At just 21 years old, Catherine Leroy flew to Saigon with a Leica camera slung over her shoulder and one hund…

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‘Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures’: A trove of jazz photo treasures finally sees the light

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By Robert Gerhardt 
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Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton, Basin Street East, New York City, ca. 1954-56 © Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy of Eakins Press Foundation/Lisette Model fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives This new book presents nearly 200 beautifully printed photographs and tells the story of the largely unknown jazz photographs that Model made over a decade in the 1950s but that were only recently rediscovered. Photographer Lisette Model has a life story that has stuck for many years.
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Photog’s decade’s-long career is love letter to urban spaces and community

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By Robert Gerhardt 
| New York Amsterdam News
BMX bike-jumping at Mullaly Skateboard Park; Bronx, 1995; named after John Mullaly, 19th-century journalist known for racist views. Park renamed Reverend T. Wendell Foster Park in September 2022 to honor first Black representative from the Bronx on New York City Council in response to community efforts. (© Martha Cooper) The Bronx Documentary Center is presenting a comprehensive survey of Martha Cooper’s nearly six-decade career of documenting urban spaces, community life, and creative expression.
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LA’s Getty Museum presents ‘Photography and the Black Arts Movement’

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By Robert Gerhardt 
| New York Amsterdam News
Ethel Sharrieff in Chicago, 1963, Gordon Parks (American, 1912–2006). Gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection), 2015.19.4631. (© Gordon Parks Foundation) Uniting around the Civil Rights Movement, writers, musicians, and visual artists explored how their work could celebrate Black culture and promote dignity, hope, and freedom.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

I first learned how to type on a typewriter before my family had a computer when I was in 7th or 8th grade.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Nick DelCorso

What's your favorite drink?

Would have to go with coffee, preferably New York street cart coffee. I'm not fancy in that regard

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