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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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The Shadowman

I’ve undertaken many photographic projects in New York City. One of the shortest-lived, but one that yielded very interesting, long-lasting results, was when I sought out examples of Richard Hambleton’s Shadowman paintings throughout New York City.

Public art, people often called it graffiti, was very prevalent in the early 1980s, and some of the most interesting was done by Hambleton, in 1981 and 1982. These malevolent Shadowmen are no longer found lurking in the Lower East Side, but thirty years ago they seemed to be everywhere and many of them survived for many years. I was drawn to them because of their energy, and that they were a magnet for other graffiti artists. The ironic way in which some had been defaced made for very arresting images.

 


 

Hank's Photographs of Richard Hambleton are featured in the June 2011 issue of Bliss Magazine.  Download the PDF here: Bliss article

Richard Hambleton in his studio, Manhattan's Lower East Side, 2009

 

 

 

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