MADONNA’S First

*text and proper crop coming soon - “reality” calls me away from the sacred keyboard.*

THE HOTTEST TICKET ON BROADWAY 2023

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ME AND MY HERO

**THE NEW YORKER: an account of my experience assisting Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1975.** If you run into a paywall, try THIS. Here is a 14 minute **interview with David Remnick for The Radio Hour** (it’s the bottom green arrow). And **my talk** about this on March 14, 2023 for The Zen Peacemakers.

ZEN PEACEMAKERS IN ALABAMA

**ZEN PEACEMAKERS BEARING WITNESS in** **Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery** May, 2022

BRUCE’S FIRST

My talk at **The Bruce Springsteen Archives** in Monmouth, NJ January 7, 2023. Click through to see the “slightly standing” ovation.

MY BROTHER’s DEATH

**THE SUMMER MY BROTHER DIED** Lincoln, Massachusetts and Grand Manan, New Brunswick Photographs and text October 2022

BEFORE COVID

Pre-pandemic NYC 2020 music by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter. photographs and film by Peter Cunningham 5 minutes.

JANIS IAN’S LAST

Film 4 min: JANIS IAN Artist at work from 1969-2022. In April I will travel to Berea College to join Janis in donating our archives. Bell Hooks is the other large life archive housed there in Kentucky.

JAPANESE ANCESTORS

In 1982 I was honored to travel in Japan with these fellas. Our task was to meet Bernie’s teachers’ teachers, the great living Zen Masters, national treasures all. Peter wrote and I made pictures.

FEMale MYTHOLOGY

ON LOOKING BACK Orpheus and Eurydice from Eurydice’s point of view. Written and Performed by Ara Fitzgerald. Film by Peter Cunningham. Music by Wall Matthews. 7 min

LIPS OF THE STAGE

**Stories from the Lip of the Stage** Imagined double-bills Photographs and text by Peter Cunningham *Lou Reed and Bo Ridley*

cunningham’s rough riders

**My Father, Bob “Fogseeker” Cunningham** (1919-2008) was a Cloud Physicist

DIAGNOSIS DAY

DIAGNOSIS DAY Go Down Slow music by Jason Rabin, Photographs by Peter Cunningham and Mark Schapiro 2021 film 3 min

BEARING WITNESS

**Auschwitz-Birkenau with Zen Peacemakers** 1996-2005 4 films 10 mins

HOW WE LEARN

Heineman publishes 15 more **Lucy Calkins** books for teachers -contrary to public opinion, they feature the teaching of PHONICS.

THE GATES OF NEW YORK

THE GATES by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park 2005. Music by Ricky Ian Gordon performed by John Nauman Film 5 mins

TEXT AND CONTEXT

PHOTOGRAPHS OF WORDS and here’s a game and a children’s book

PLAYTIME AT YALE

**Peter’s Bio** Here he shares an exercise with students at a Yale School of Drama workshop.

SUPREME COURT CASE

Andy Warhol and Ricky Nelson backstage at The Bottom Line in about 1976:

The Supreme Court just ruled for my colleague Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation, The Warhol people resold an image of Prince which had been based on Lynn’s photograph. I often encountered Warhol in backstage photo-op situations, we were often the only two photographers allowed in. I was in the room as as a record company’s hired gun, I didn’t really know why Andy was there, I thought it was some sort of quirk, an affinity for being adjacent to fame. We often stood side-by-side, he would make one snapshot with his plastic flash camera, say nothing, and be the first to leave. Now as I read about the court case I realize his motivation for showing up was to create his own original images to use as references for his creations. He was aware of these licensing issues and this was his work-around. The reason he didn’t simply send an assistant was that being Andy Warhol was his ticket into the room, he couldn’t send a substitute. I never turned my camera on him out of a sense of respecting his privacy, but in this case he stepped out of the shadows and engaged in conversation with Ricky Nelson becoming fair game. (image color by Tim Trompeter)