Israel "Cachao" López by Hazel Hankin

Hazel Hankin photographed Israel "Cachao" López performing at the Blue Note in New York City.

Bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" López, born in 1918 in Havana, Cuba, is credited as the inventor of the mambo. Considered a master of the Latin jam session known as “descarga,” Cachao has won several Grammy awards and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cachao died on March 22, 2008 at the age of 89.

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David Stock's Urban Landscapes

David Stock brings his finely tuned senses for composition, color and irony to his images of city street scenes.

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David Stock Joins GalileoPix

We are pleased to welcome David Stock to GalileoPix. David Stock has been photographing since the age of fourteen. He went on to study photography at Harvard College. Among his professors were Arthur Siegel and Aaron Siskind, who was a particular influence.

In addition to creating images, Stock has a longstanding commitment to darkroom craft and extending the capabilities of fine art digital printmaking.

Stock’s images have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. These venues include the Fogg Art Museum, The California Museum of Photography, the Museet for Fotokunst (Denmark), the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Blue Sky Gallery, the Santa Monica College Photography Gallery, The University of Sinalóa (UNAM), the Kerckhoff Art Gallery (UCLA), Casa da Fotografia FUJI (Brazil), the Angels Gate Cultural Center, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

Stock’s photographs have also been featured in many publications, such as Canon Chronicle (worldwide in 5 languages), Z Magazine (cover), Long Beach Museum Quarterly (cover), Arts Rag (cover), Forward Motion, Blue Sky, La Fotografía Actual (Spain), Fotopozytyw (Poland), the Boston Phoenix and the New York Times.

- portrait © Hazel Hankin

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