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Watch a short documentary of The Richard Hambleton Retrospective featuring the photography of Hank O'Neal at Phillips de Pury , New York City from September 9 through the 13th, 2011 presented by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida in collaboration with Phillips De Pury & Giorgio Armani. Click here

Hank's photographs of Richard Hambleton as featured in the June issue of Bliss Magazine. Download the PDF here: Bliss article

Hank's latest show: Portraits 1970-2010 at The Lancaster Museum of Fine Art. This one man photographic exhibition features noted portraits Hank has taken over the last four decades. The show will run through February 27th. For more information please visit the museums web site here: http://www.lmapa.org/exh.html

Hank's Portrait of Robert Indiana during his reception at the Four Season's Restaurant in New York City, featured in Art in America: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2011-01-26/robert-indiana-hope-four-seasons/

Hank's Photographs of Richard Hambleton's Shadow Men on display @ The Dairy, London: http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/12/viewpoints-openings-richard-hambleton-pop-up-show-the-dairy-london/img_3876_p-nguyen/

Hank's photography graced the facade of the AMFAR pavillion, Cap D'Atibes France, May 20, 2010

C-Span July 2010 —The American Association of University Professors, features The Ghosts Of Harlem American Edition as one of it's choices for The "Best of The Best" University Editions. "The Best of The Bests" Program program, offers librarians the opportunity to share advice and recommendations with their colleagues, and recognizes the valuable contribution that university press books can make to both public and secondary school libraries. (note:The Ghosts of Harlem feature begins at 11:40 and ends at 14:40) :Please Have a look at the video here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294474-1

Jazz Times Interview June 2010 — Hank O’Neal: Chasing Ghosts

ArtNews Article, March 2010, Friendships In Focus - Berenice Abbott, PDF

Hank O'Neal's Lower East Side Project Featured On Swiss T.V.

Seventh Man Magazine - "Richard Hambleton — New York" in Milan

Featured Artist on Valmorbida.com

Artists We Love, Featured Photographs of Richard Hambleton Street Art

Swide, Hank O'Neal's Portraits of Richard Hambleton, showing in Milan

oneartworld.com - Featuring Hank O'Neal's Richard Hambleton Related Prints for Sale

Abitare - Richard Hambleton in Milan featuring a portrait by Hank O'Neal

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Maine

My first visit to Maine was a hurried-up affair with my parents, nearly fifty years ago. It was an enjoyable trip, we spent most of our time on Mt. Desert, and the seacoast, as do most tourists. A decade or so later I went back to Maine, this time into the relatively wild and uninhabited interior, to visit Berenice Abbott at her home near Moosehead Lake. By uninhabited, I mean I was told that the Blanchard Plantation, where Berenice lived, had but 19 full time residents. I kept going back to work with Berenice, and then to revisit the interior, for a quarter of a century. I was there so frequently in the late 1970s I even had Maine license plates on my car.

The parts of Maine with which I became familiar, roughly seventy or eighty miles in every direction from Greenville, at the southern tip of Moosehead Lake, are as far removed from the seacoast as New York City is from Albany. There’s just no comparison. Seacoast Maine is New England, charming, well-maintained, tourist friendly and often quaint. The interior has its own charm, but it is rough, has few tourists other than hunters and fishermen, and is rarely quaint. It is a no nonsense kind of place, perfectly suited for Berenice Abbott.

In the course of twenty-five years, I took thousands of photographs, the majority medium and large format color, but there were also a number in black and white, usually large (up to 8”x10”) or medium format. These are among my favorites.