Marilyn Monroe Rediscovered - The lost film of Peter Mangone

Photos: The Estate of Peter Mangone and Danziger Gallery, New York

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Marilyn Monroe continues to beguile the world today.
And now a gallery in New York is showcasing some rediscovered photos of the iconic movie star shot from 1955.
The Danziger Gallery has continued with the exhibition which started Jan. 10. It runs to Feb. 9 even though the man who shot the grainy eight-millimeter footage passed away on Dec. 11.
However, Peter Mangone lived to oversee the printing of his historic pictures and the publication of the gallery’s catalogue.
Mangone was a high school student in New York who skipped his Grade 9 class in an attempt to stake out the star at the Gladstone Hotel. Monroe had just divorced Joe DiMaggio and was living at the hotel while taking classes at the Actors Studio.
On a grey, March day, the fan used his new Revere movie camera and caught the star as she emerged from the hotel and noticed the young fan.
Monroe beckoned him to follow and for the next few hours, the young fan recorded the star as walked around midtown Manhattan.
Mangone had the film developed, but he remembers cleaning out his room and throwing out the film. Then in 2002, he brother called him to tell him he had found the Monroe film while cleaning out his father’s possessions.
They had been stored in a beaten-up cardboard box, but the film was in near mint condition.
The film was 5-1/2-minutes long and shows Monroe blowing kisses at one moment and looking pensive in other moments as she walked freely on the street in her fur-trimmed black cashmere suit.

 

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National Geographic Celebrates 125 Years - Iconic Images

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National Geographic to Celebrate 125th Anniversary

On Jan. 13, 2013, the National Geographic Society will celebrate its 125th anniversary and its evolution from a small scientific body founded “to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge” to one of the world’s largest educational and scientific organizations, committed to inspiring people to care about the planet.
Renowned for its storytelling, photography, maps and support of exploration and conservation, the Society will mark its anniversary reaffirming its role at the forefront of discovery and adventure and looking forward to “A New Age of Exploration.”   

Here's a look back at some of Geographic's iconic photographs.  Do you remember the touching moment between primatologist and NG grantee Jane Goodall and a young chimp at Tanzania's Gombe Stream Reserve?  Or perhaps the striking photograph of a young Afghan girl in a Pakistan refugee camp?

 

 

 

1985 | Afghanistan
Steve McCurry’s iconic photograph of a young Afghan girl in a Pakistan refugee camp appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s June 1985 issue and became the most famous cover image in the magazine’s history.

Photo © Steve McCurry/National Geographic

 

 

1909 | CANADA
National Geographic funded Cmdr. Robert E. Peary’s 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Whether Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, reached the Pole or not, they came closer to that goal than anyone before them.
Photo © Robert E. Peary Collection, NGS

 

 

1969 | THE MOON
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, his visor reflecting Neil Armstrong and the lunar module Eagle. The Apollo 11 astronauts carried the National Geographic Society flag with them on their journey to the Moon.
Photo credit: NASA

 

 

1909 | ALASKA, UNITED STATES
Washing his films in iceberg-choked seawater was an everyday chore for photographer Oscar D. Von Engeln during the summer months he spent on a National Geographic-sponsored expedition in Alaska.
Photo © Oscar D. Von Engeln

 

 

1964 | TANZANIA
A touching moment between primatologist and National Geographic grantee Jane Goodall and young chimpanzee Flint at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Reserve.
Photo ©  Hugo van Lawick

 

 

1931 | AFGHANISTAN
In his favorite picture, legendary National Geographic photojournalist Maynard Owen Williams marveled how, in this Herat, Afghanistan, bazaar, no one blinked during the three seconds required to make the exposure.
Photo ©  Maynard Owen Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 | DRY TORTUGAS
Using a brassbound waterproof camera and dragging a raft rigged with a pound of explosive flash powder — the equivalent of 2,400 flashbulbs — marine biologist William Longley and National Geographic photographer Charles Martin stalked the shallows around the Dry Tortugas, making the first natural-color underwater images. 
Photo © W. H. Longley and Charles Martin

 

 

1938 | EGYPT
Three figures on camelback behold the pyramids of Giza.
Photo © B. Anthony Stewart

 

 

1991 | NORTH ATLANTIC
Rusted prow of the R.M.S. Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg in April 1912.
Photo © Emory Kristof

 

 

ANTARCTICA
An emperor penguin, outfitted with a Crittercam system designed by marine biologist and National Geographic staff member Greg Marshall, becomes an unwitting cameraman for a National Geographic documentary.
Photo © Greg Marshall

 

 

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears have white coats. They are known to the local people as spirit bears.
Photo © Paul Nicklen

 

 

1963 | NEPAL
The first American team to summit Mount Everest in 1963 included National Geographic’s Barry Bishop.
Photo © Barry Bishop

 

 

UGANDA
A lion climbs a tree to sleep, in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth Park. 
Photo © Joel Sartore

 

 

National Geographic - 1st Magazine cover

 The first issue of National Geographic magazine was sent to 200 charter members in October 1888.

 

Tune in to the Hangout featuring Robert Ballard, James Cameron and Jane Goodall on Air this Sunday, January 13 at 1 p.m. ET (6 p.m. UTC). http://on.natgeo.com/WEBZcd

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - National Geographic Contest Winners - January 4, 2013

As a leader in capturing our world through brilliant imagery, National Geographic sets the standard for photographic excellence. More than 22,000 entries were submitted from over 150 countries, with professional photographers and amateur photo enthusiasts across the globe participating. Photographs were submitted in three categories: people, places and nature. The competition was judged on creativity and photographic quality by a panel of experts comprised of natural history photographer Christian Zeiglerand documentary photographers Gerd Ludwig and Debbie Fleming Caffery. Here are some of the winning images and honorable mentions–plus the Viewers' Choice winners.

The Grand Prize Winner will receive $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., to participate in the annual National Geographic Photography Seminar in January 2013.

 

First Place for People:  Amongst the Scavengers
Photo and caption by Micah Albert/National Geographic Photo Contest

At the end of the day women are allowed to pick through the dumpsite.

 

 

Honorable Mention: East of Iceland
Photo and caption by Eric Guth/National Geographic Photo Contest

Glacial ice washes ashore after calving off the Breiamerkurjˆkull glacier on Iceland's eastern coast. During the waning light of summer this image was created over the course of a 4 minute exposure while the photographer backlit the grounded glacial ice with a headlamp for 2 of those 4 minutes.

 

Honorable Mention: Chinese traditional dragon boat racing
Photo and caption by关嘉城/National Geographic Photo Contest

Dragon boating is a chinese traditional entertainment. As an acquatic sport to memorise qu yuan, a patriotic poet in ancient china, it is usually held in festivals, which can be traced back to two thousands years ago.

 

 

Honorable Mention: Captive
Photo and caption by Wendell Phillips/National Geographic Photo Contest

Yayasan Galuh Rehabilitation Center is and impoverished mental health facility based in Bekasi, Indonesia that hosts over 250 patients.  Most come from poor families no longer interested in managing their condition, or are unable. Some patients are homeless, deposited after being taken off streets by police The only medical treatment received is for skin conditions. No assessments, psychotherapy or psychiatric medications is available. Over one third of the patients are shackled in chains. These measures are implemented to those thought to be violent, uncontrolable and dangerous.

 

 

Honorable Mention: Eerie Eiffel
Photo and caption by Indra Swari Wonowidjojo/National Geographic Photo Contest

The winter gloomy day worked to my advantage to create this eerie feeling of the famous landmark Eiffel tower.

 

 

Viewers’ Choice for People:  Expedition Amundsen
Photo and caption by Kai-Otto Melau/National Geographic Photo Contest

A race that follows in the path of the famous explorer Roald Amundsen brings the contestants to the Hardangervidda Mountainplateu, Norway. 100km across the plateau, the exact same route Amundsen used to prepare for his South Pole expedition in 1911 is still used by explorers today. Amundsen did not manage to cross the plateau and had to turn back because of bad weather. He allegedly said that the attempt to cross Hardangervidda was just as dangerous and hard as the conquering of the South Pole. The group in the picture used the race as preparations for an attempt to cross Greenland.

 

 

Viewers’ Choice for Places:  Iceberg Hunters
Photo and caption by Adam Coish/National Geographic Photo Contest

Chipping ice off an iceberg is a common way for the Inuit community to retrieve fresh drinking water while on the land. During a weekend long hunting trip, we came upon this majestic iceberg frozen in place. It was a perfect opportunity to grab enough ice and drinking water for the remainder of the trip.

 

 

Honorable Mention: Stilt Fishing
Photo and caption by Ulrich Lambert/National Geographic Photo Contest

Stilt fishing is a typical fishing technique only seen in Sri Lanka. The fishermen sit on a cross bar called a petta tied to a vertical pole planted into the coral reef. This long exposure shot shows how unstable their position is.

 

 

Grand-Prize:  The Explosion!
Photo and caption by Ashley Vincent/National Geographic Photo Contest

The subject's name is Busaba, a well cared for Indochinese Tigress whose home is at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand. I had taken many portraits of Busaba previously and it was becoming more and more difficult to come up with an image that appeared any different to the others. Which is why I took to observing her more carefully during my visits in the hope of capturing something of a behavioural shot. The opportunity finally presented itself while watching Busaba enjoying her private pool then shaking herself dry. In all humility I have to say that Mother Nature smiled favourably on me that day!

 

For more winning images in the Nature category, please visit the Daily Beast blog.

Tony Lepore - The Dancing Cop of Providence Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Rodrique Ngowi The Associated Press

AP Photos/Stephan Savoia

Ah, Christmas in Rhode Island. Exquisitely decorated mansions in Newport. A red nose on the giant termite that sits atop a Providence exterminator's building. And a traffic cop, doing disco and salsa moves in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

Officer Tony Lepore is as much a holiday tradition as anything else in the state that issued the first jail sentence for speeding 108 years ago. Since 1984, he has entertained drivers, pedestrians and gawkers with dance moves in downtown Providence — all while directing traffic.

"He is a Rhode Island landmark, more or less. He's an icon, he's like a littlemini celebrity," says Michelle Peterson, of Warwick. She's an emergency medical technician and the mother of three boys who was introduced to the "dancing cop" years ago by her partner in their ambulance.

This year, she took her boys to see Lepore, 65, perform and got him to pose for pictures with them.

"It feels good to see him out here; it definitely brings the holiday spirit. I think people come out here just to see him and I think it brings some people to shop so they can see him."

The routine, Lepore says, was born in the month of May of the boredom and aggravation that officers typically experience while directing rushing drivers and jaywalking pedestrians. He was inspired by classic "Candid Camera" television footage he saw a day earlier that showed police officers elsewhere directing traffic with flair.

"I didn't know if my bosses were going to like it, so a lot of times if I saw a boss come down, I'd be doing my fancy stuff, then I'd go back and do it the old-fashioned way so I don't get caught," Lepore says.

 

His secret didn't last long. City residents began calling the police station and raving about Lepore's moves. A few days later, The Providence Journal, the state's largest newspaper, came out with a story on the sensation.

The positive publicity encouraged officials to endorse the dancing cop, who continued to perform until he left the job in 1988, when he went into business with his brother with a food and vending service.

In 1992, Lepore says, he got a call from city officials asking him to rejoin the force to dance and direct traffic around Christmastime as they pushed to redefine the city's image and bring visitors downtown.

He signed a $1,200, 10-day contract as a reserve police officer and says he has frozen the value of the contract at the 1992 rate to encourage city officials to recall his services every year.

Standing in traffic, he adjusts his cap, shakes his hip, raises and twists one leg and spins. In one of the more unusual moves, he bends his knees, leans far back and quickly alternates support for his body by keeping one hand on the ground while motioning to the traffic with the free hand.

In one move, he goes down on his knees in homage to John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever."

 

He says his body takes a pounding and that he has had knee surgery, pulled some muscles and even suffered stress fractures.

"This is ridiculous! Oh, man, this guy is the best," an incredulous Vik Jay, a medical student at Brown University, says after seeing the "Dancing Cop" in action for the first time. "I'm from San Francisco. I used to go to Castro Street, and this is far more entertaining than anything I saw there."

Karen DeAngelis, of Pawtucket, was on a bus when she saw Lepore perform while directing traffic. She got out to watch him before continuing her journey.

"I would come down here every year to see him if I were able to," she says. "I'm not able to, and I just so happened to be here today. He's that good and he's that entertaining, and he really cheers people up."

Lepore says his dance moves are planned to send specific directions to drivers to avoid causing confusion at the intersection.

"I do it in such a way that even the people in the cars know what I mean, 'cause every dance move means something to the driver, and I make sure that he knows or she knows what I want them to do," Lepore says.

The dancing is not a distraction and has never caused incredulous drivers to crash, he says.

"I think it would be more of a distraction if I was in a different town and they didn't know I was out there, but most of Providence, they even know me by the sound of my whistle," he said. "It's more of a spectacle where people love to just come down here and see me do it around Christmastime, and they enjoy it ... and I enjoy it."othing says Christmas in Rhode Island like Providence's dancing cop!

 

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Seeing the light - Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - December 18, 2012

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A workman prepares the Museum of Broken Relationships, which is a new exhibition being installed at the CentQuatre exhibition hall in Paris on December 18, 2012. The temporary exhibition will run from December 19 to January 20, 2013 and will show relics of sentimental disappointment.

 

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Red Carpet Arrivals: European premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2"

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Stars rock the red carpet from the European premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2"  at The Odeon Leicester Square on Nov. 14, 2012 in London.

 

REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Mollie King (L), Vanessa White (C) and Frankie Sandford of the music group The Saturdays.

 

Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan.

 

Stuart Wilson/Getty Images

Actor Robert Pattinson.

 

Tim Whitby/Getty Images

Actress Judi Shekoni.

 

Jon Furniss/Invision/AP

Actress Myanna Burling.

 

REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Singer Tinchy Stryder.

 

Stuart Wilson/Getty Images

Tamara Ecclestone, daughter of Bernie Ecclestone.

 

Tim Whitby/Getty Images

Taylor Lautner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebuilding a Legend: Ryerson's transformation of the Gardens

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Rebuilding a Legend:  Ryerson's transformation of the Gardens into the sweetest hockey rink ever, a photo exhibit by Toronto photographer Norm Betts, running November 1st through December 31st, 2012 at Jet Fuel, 519 Parliament St., Toronto.

Here's a sneak peek at some of the images Betts took between June 2010 and September 2012, on what he calls a dream assignment, having been granted access to photograph anything as long as it didn't slow construction, and was within the bounds of safety.

 

APRIL 6, 2011 - Two cranes move a giant beam into place which will become the top edge of the seating in the west side and the corner of the ceiling of the baskteball / volleyball gym on the second floor.

July 2, 2010 - Just before workers began pouring the floor of the parking garage.

January 19, 2011 - A worker with a torch cuts one of the original seating supports.

October 2, 2010 - A worker trowels a smooth surface on a concrete pour in the levels below street level.

November 11, 2011 -  Pouring concrete to form the various levels of seating around the rink.

November 22, 2011 - The sign crew building the new marquee hoist the Ryerson part into place on the traditional styled marquee over the gardens front doors.

March 20, 2012 - Pouring the final layer of concrete for the ice pad.

April 26, 2012 - Graffitti from the last Leafs' game on a wall above the top row of the old greys in Section 19.

July 17, 2012 - Laying down one of the many layers of ice to build its thickness.

 July 25, 2012 - The electric Zamboni makes it's very first pass.

 July 30, 2012 - An electrician skates at a lunch time skate for staff.

May 11, 2012 -  The building shown viewed from the southeast at dusk.

 

 

FOUND: Never before exhibited photos of the Rolling Stones in 1960s California

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A month long exhibition of rare and candid photographs that document the legendary Rolling Stones on their American tour in 1965.  Curated by Lauren White and George August, the exhibit is presented by Dilettante in collaboration with Apart Projects.

This exhibiton will mark the first time the photographs have been shown in the public realm.  Only recently found in an unmarked box at a Southern California estate sale, these historically valuable prints act as a time capsule to the birth of rock and roll culture.  The photographer remains unknown.

In and around the landscape of Savannah, Georgia and Clearwater, Florida, the eager and compelling subjects are Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and founding member/road manager, Ian Stewart.

MICK JAGGER UNTITLED '65

 

 BILL WYMAN SMOKING '65

 

MICK SHADES, 2 CLEARWATER FL '65

 

 BILL WYMAN UNTITILED '65

 

KEITH RICHARDS UNTITLED '65

 

 BRIAN JONES BITING CHAIN '65

 

 MICK AND IAN STEWART, UNITITLED, SAVANNAH GEORGIA, '65

 

 BRIAN JONES BITING CHAIN '65

 

BILL WYMAN LIGHTING CIGARETTE '65

 

 BRIAN, CHARLIE RELAXING, CLEARWATER '65

 

 BRIAN JONES,WITH TOWEL, CLEARWATER FL, '65

 

 BRIAN JONES POOLSIDE '65

 

 BRIAN JONES DIVING, MANAGER MOTOR LODGE, SAVANNAH GEORGIA '65

 

 BRIAN JONES MONOGRAMMED SWEATSHIRT '65

 

 CHARLIE WATTS UNTITLED, CLEARWATER '65

 

BRIAN JONES SUNBATHING '65

 

 MICK AND CHARLIE, CLEARWATER '65

 

BRIAN JONES WET, SAVANNAH GEORGIA '65

 

CHARLIE WATTS AND BILL WYMAN, UNTITILED, CLEARWATER '65

 

 CHARLIE WATTS YAWNING, CLEARWATER FL.,'65

 

 MICK AND CHARLIE, CLEARWATER, UNTITILED 2 '65

 

 MICK AND CHARLIE UNTITLED CLEARWATER '65

 

 MICK JAGGER DRINKING POOLSIDE, CLEARWATER, FL., '65

 

MICK SHADES, CLEARWATER, FL., '65

 

 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - October 7, 2012

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The 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion was held on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain. The 'Castellers' who build the human towers with precise techniques compete in groups, known as 'colles', at local festivals with aim to build the highest and most complex human tower. The Catalan tradition is believed to have originated from human towers built at the end of the 18th century by dance groups and is part of the Catalan culture.

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Members of the Colla 'Castellers de Vilafranca' start a construction of a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain.

Members of the Colla 'Vella de Valls' start a construction of a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain.

 Members of the Colla 'Jove de Valls' celebrate after building a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain.

Members of the Colla 'Vella de Valls' start a construction of a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain.

Members of the Colla 'Caprogossos de Mataro' climb up as they construct a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain.

Members of the Colla 'Castellers de Vilafranca' climb up as they construct a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on October 7, 2012 in Tarragona, Spain.

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - The Tutu Project - July 29, 2012

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Bob Carey is no ballerino. Nor is he particularly athletic.
He's burly, balding, and has budding man-boobs.
But what the 51 year old New York-based photographer does have is
spirit, tremendous love for his wife Linda ... and a pink tutu.
He's combined all this - plus his talent for taking quirky
self-portraits - and taken it on the road, posing in nothing but his
tutu all over the US and even outside of it. 
The result is a collection of arresting, sometimes amusing, sometimes
melancholy but surreally beautiful landscapes, featuring his
almost-naked self in pink tulle.

Story by Antonia Zerbisias

Images by Bob Carey

 Rock Wall  

 

 Rock

 

 Times Square

San Francisco

 Parking Lot

 

Corn Field

 Subway

 Motor Home

 Fame

 

Ferry

 

Snow

Italy   

 

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