Category: New York

Marylin @ the circus

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Old Madison Square Garden, March 30, 1955 
Marilyn Monroe makes a memorable guest appearance at The Ringling Bros Circus fund-raiser benefiting the New York Arthritis & Rheumatism Foundation.  This was the event that re-introduced her to the world after a year in hiding.  It was the “Show Of Shows” with Milton Berle as ringmaster.  Milton and Marilyn were inspired and excited with the whole idea and decided to use the evening’s festivities to make the formal announcement of MMP (Marilyn Monroe Productions) to the world. It was Miss Monroe’s idea to ride a pink female elephant, complete with a pink bow on the tail, as well as a matching rhinestone harness and saddle.  Mariyn’s entrance and her reappearance to the world caused a media frenzy!

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AIDS Walk NY

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John Penley ~ Keith Haring at ACT UP City Hall Protest  [Tamiment Library, NYU]

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John Penley is a photographer and grassroots political activist associated with the squatters’ rights movement and housing protests of the 1980s and 1990s in New York City’s East Village and Lower East Side. He began photographing as part of an effort to document the demonstrations, protests, and other political actions in which he took part, and in the process became a photo-journalist. Hundreds of Penley’s photographs have appeared in publications ranging from neighborhood newspapers to publications such as the Village Voice and the Washington Post.  ➔ The John Penley Photographs Collection at New York University’s Tamiment Library