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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bertrand Miles.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bertrand Miles.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 30 min., 54 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Photographer Bertrand Henry Miles was born September 17, 1928 in Fort Adams, Mississippi. In Natchez, Mississippi he attended Broomfield High School, but graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago in 1948. Introduced to photography in high school, Miles was taught by professional photographers Carl Maynard and Carl Adair. In 1952, he was offered a full-time position by John H. Johnson as staff photographer for the New York City bureau of Johnson Publishing Company. Photographs by Miles appeared in Negro Digest, Ebony and Jet magazines. In 1953, as a freelancer on Madison Avenue, his photos also appeared in Life magazine. From 1968 to 1977, Miles worked as a cameraman at CBS Television. Miles was known for his award-winning portrait of Mary Church Terrell at the Frederick Douglass Home at Cedar Hill. Miles later worked to restore the cultural heritage of Harlem. Miles passed away on February 1, 2005 at age 76.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Bertrand Miles
- Bertrand Miles
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1000518788
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bertrand Miles.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 023054
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
- Recorded New York, New York 2004 September 13.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Photographer.
- Added Author
- Miles, Bertrand, 1928-2005, interviewee.Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.