Photography
Slava Mogutin is a Russian-born American artist, writer, photographer, and LGBTQ+ activist. He became known through openly gay journalism and activism in post-Soviet Russia, then built a multidisciplinary practice in the United States after receiving political asylum. His poetry, prose, photography, collage, performance, and collaborative projects connect private
Photography
Sean Flynn usually refers to Sean Leslie Flynn (1941–1970), Errol Flynn’s son: an actor who became a war photojournalist and disappeared in Cambodia in April 1970 while traveling with photographer Dana Stone. No confirmed account of what happened to either man has been established. A different Sean Flynn,
Photography
Sasha Siemel was a Latvian-born American explorer, writer, photographer, and lecturer best known for his years in Brazil’s Mato Grosso and Pantanal. He became internationally famous for accounts of hunting jaguars with a spear, but he was also a popular interpreter of Brazil’s interior for English-speaking
Photography
Sadakichi Hartmann was a Japanese-German American poet, playwright, art critic, lecturer, and occasional screen performer whose work connected literary culture, photography, theater, and early modern art in the United States. He is especially important for arguing that photography should be judged as a serious art form before that view
American filmmakers
Russ Meyer was an American independent filmmaker whose low-budget movies made him a defining figure in sexploitation and cult cinema. He became known for films that mixed sexual display, violence, comedy, fast cutting, and outsized characters, often sold with provocative titles and advertising. His name still comes up because
Independent cinema
Rob Nilsson is an American filmmaker, writer, and actor best known for fiercely independent fiction films that use documentary-like immediacy. He is a key figure in American independent cinema, particularly in San Francisco and Northern California, where he has made low-budget, community-rooted films with nonprofessional performers, improvisation,
Identity verification
Rick Rose is not one uniquely identifiable person: the name is shared by multiple people, and search results can point to different individuals. To confirm which Rick Rose you found, match the name to the original context—especially the person’s profession, organization, location, date, and associated project. Until those
American actors
Richard Ray Whitman is an Indigenous actor known publicly through film and television cast credits, particularly in Westerns, frontier dramas, and stories involving Native American characters. Viewers are most likely to recognize his name in supporting casts for films such as *Dances with Wolves*, *Dead Man*, and *The Missing*. Public
American writers
René Ricard was an American poet, art critic, actor, and downtown New York figure whose writing helped shape how readers encountered Jean-Michel Basquiat in the early 1980s. He is best known for his 1981 Artforum essay, “The Radiant Child,” but his poems and criticism have a force and history
American filmmakers
Rebecca Miller is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, novelist and visual artist best known for writing and directing intimate, character-driven films including Personal Velocity, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Maggie’s Plan and She Came to Me. Her work examines love, family, work and ambition through people whose plans
Animation
Ralph Bakshi is an American animator and director whose feature films helped make American animation a place for adult subjects rather than only family entertainment. Beginning in the 1970s, he used cartoons to address sex, racism, violence, class conflict, fantasy, and counterculture in ways that were confrontational, personal, and often
English football
Paul Swan is the former English professional footballer best known as a central defender for Sheffield United. He was part of the Blades teams that rose from the old Third Division to the top flight in successive seasons around the turn of the 1990s, before a criminal conviction brought his