Merrily on broadway 1981
The current revival of Merrily We Roll Along is receiving high praise.. This is the poster for Sondheim’s 1981 musical; the original cast came up to my studio’s rooftop in Greenwich Village to pose for for this picture.
A walk around Chinatown with my old pal, photographer/writer Jon-Marc Seimon. JM writes about our perambulation in his blog, ATOMS&VOID. That title pretty much says it all.
MADONNA’S First PR PICTURES 198
The New Yorker chose to illustrate their article on Madonna with my contact sheet from 1982.
THE NEW YORKER: an account of my experience assisting Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1975. If you run into a paywall, try THIS. Here is an interview with David Remnick for The Radio Hour, and my talk for The Zen Peacemakers.
ZEN PEACEMAKERS BEARING WITNESS in Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery May, 2022
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 2022
THE SUMMER MY BROTHER DIED Lincoln, Massachusetts and Grand Manan, New Brunswick Photographs and text October 2022
BEFORE COVID 2022
Pre-pandemic NYC 2020 music by Zoe FitzGerald Carter. photographs and film by Peter Cunningham 5 minutes.
JANIS IAN’S LAST
JANIS IAN An artist at work from 1969-2022. She is seen here on the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Janis has successfully recorded and performed since the age of 16, so it was disappointing that just before completing her last tour with shows in Nashville and Dublin, she tore a vocal cord and can no longer sing. She will, however, continue to lecture on the artistic process in universities around the world. A film about her life is being prepared as I type this. Janis has donated her archives to Berea College in Kentucky where she will join Bell Hooks on the shelves. Film 4 min.
JAPANESE ANCESTORS 1982
In 1982 I was honored to travel in Japan with these fellas. Our task was to meet Roshi Bernie Glassman’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
Stories from the Lip of the Stage Imagined double-bills Photographs and text by Peter Cunningham Lou Reed and Bo Ridley
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
Auschwitz-Birkenau with Zen Peacemakers 1996-2005 4 films 10 mins
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
PHOTOGRAPHS OF WORDS Here’s a game and a children’s book, and above is a film with music by ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER
Peter’s Bio Here he shares an exercise with students at a Yale School of Drama workshop.
From a 2019 exhibition in Vermont curated by Dian Parker. This currently links to a series of old but still relevant pictorial blog posts.