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Indie Wire (blog)DOC NY: 'Lost Bohemia' Is A Failed Attempt At Capturing Artistic HistoryIndie Wire (blog)For instance, Editta Sherman, a photographer who has taken pictures for Cecil B. DeMille, recounts a cute story of a phone call she had with DeMille where ...
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A snapshot of photographer Editta Sherman's extensive work and wish to publish a book.
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...How do you fight Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Famed 97-year-old portrait photographer Editta Sherman has had plenty. For the past 3½ years, she's been fighting eviction from her studio loft above the West 57th Street concert hall where she's...
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New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/carnegie_gall_8AxBMlVW7PIs8fFucbPDhJ
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...Editta Sherman may have celebrated her 97th birthday since we last heard from her, but her resistance to all things change at Carnegie Hall hasn't tempered with age. Sherman, one of six remaining rent-stabilized tenants in the artists' studios above the historic...
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Curbed
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http://curbed.com/archives/2009/06/18/carnegie_halls_skylights_need_a_protest_protest_protest.php
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...feeling very badly about my skylights being taken away,” Editta Sherman, a 97-year-old tenant in the Carnegie Hall Studio Towers, told the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday afternoon. Ms. Sherman, who moved into the building in 1949, has become...
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/spotlight-skylights-carnegie-hall-landmarks-hearing
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...Times Square on New Year's Eve will be a little more green this year. The glowing ball has been doubled in size to ... Editta Sherman says she isn't going anywhere even though the state has slapped her with an eviction notice over her huge, rent-controlled...
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WNYW | Fox 5 New York
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...the scrappy tenant vowed yesterday that they'll have to "drag me out" with "their bare hands." "I'm never leaving," Editta Sherman, a portrait photographer who has spent more than a half-century in her rent-controlled studio apartment above the famed concert...
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New York Post
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96 year old wonder !
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Editta Sherman has lived above Carnegie Hall for more than 60 years. In her home studio, she's photographed some of the most famous names in show business. Now, Carnegie Hall is asking her to leave. Alex Chadwick talks with Editta about the looming
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NPR
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...wants to move out of her rent-controlled apartment above the famed hall where she's lived since 1949. Editta (eh-DEE'-tah) Sherman pays $530 a month for the 800-square-foot studio where she raised her five children. There, she photographed famous musicians,...
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WCAX
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...high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building. Editta Sherman, 95, has lived at her photographey studio above Carnegie Hall for 58 years. But they turned furious when they found out...
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CNN
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Editta Sherman. "The Duchess of Carnegie Hall" Reveals Longevity Secrets How 92-year-old maintains vibrant health and high energy. Editta Sherman is a world-famous celebrity photographer who has produced portraits of some of the most glittering personalities of the 20th century in her Carnegie Hall studio in New York: Marlon Brando, Noel Coward, Henry Fonda, Elvis Presley, Anthony Quinn, and Leopold Stokowski, to name a few. Most of them have passed on, but "the Duchess of Carnegie Hall," as Editta is known, is still radiantly healthy at 92, because she has also made it her life's work to look as beautiful on the inside as she made her famous subjects look on the outside. Editta is a living testament to the true riches of good health. Today, she keeps healthy with a daily exercise routine and diet that would put people half her age to shame—plus a nutritional supplement that helps her maintain the high energy levels she has had since she was a young mother of five children. "When I got into the business, I was always in the limelight with my photography, making appearances on television, radio, and film," Editta says. "I was always conscious of my health, and I was always as a great beauty." A Health Pact With Herself Her health-conscious lifestyle started with her first pregnancy at age 22. Her doctor told her to take calcium so she wouldn't lose her teeth. "After the baby was born, I decided I wasn't going to get old. I started reading about health, and that's how it all started," Editta says. She started skipping rope every day and began what was to become a lifelong practice of eating nutritious, whole foods and taking vitamin supplements. Photography was only an award-winning hobby until her husband became ill with diabetes and couldn't work. With his help, Editta opened a studio in New York City. Her first client was Raymond Massey, and she soon established herself as a celebrity photographer. By the time her husband died, Editta had a thriving business and continued to raise her five children alone. Show business legends flocked to her mirrored studio atop Carnegie Hall. They sat under a skylight that soars 40 feet above the black and white checkered floor, charmed by Editta into revealing their innermost personalities for memorable portraits. "It was a pleasure to work with such an artist of the camera as you are," the mercurial conductor Stokowski wrote. ________________________________________ Continued...
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...As for the tenants who are paying market rates, he said, moving to an equivalent property "is not a hardship." Tenant Editta Sherman raised her five children in a studio with 30-foot ceilings where she has lived for 58 years. "I'm not moving out! I'm going...
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Associated Press
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CARNEGIE_HALL_EVICTIONS?SITE=NEYOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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... Editta Sherman, 95, busy herself inside her photo studio residence where she stills uses a giant 100 year old view camera, right, at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday Aug. 2 , 2007. Sherman, a portrait photographer to the stars, and 50 remaining tenants...
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The Columbian
http://www.columbian.com/entertainment/entertainmentNews/AP08042007news178308.cfm/
Editta Sherman interview april 2005 in six 8min parts PART 1 of 6
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