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Gary Bart
Categoria (época de atuação)
1890 - 2000
Nascimento
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Biography
“Originally from New York, Gary Bart founded Weight Watchers in Southern California at the age 21. Twenty-three years later, he sold the business and retired at age 44.
Wanting to make an investment in early photography coincided with his own unique research. His great-uncle was Zishe Breitbart, (a Modern Jewish Samson in pre-Nazi Germany) billed as “The Strongest Man in the World,” a celebrated circus and vaudeville performer in Europe and America. Fascinated with fact that a Jew could become world famous for his strength and not his intellect, Gary pursued a lifelong study of his ancestor’s life story. Hunting down photos and picture postcards of Breitbart led him to pictures of other strongmen, acrobats, and their peers. This path led him to further discoveries of rare and unique photographs encompassing all of the circus arts and its practitioners, among them including the earliest known photographs at a circus.
Gary produced the film Invincible based on Breitbart’s life, directed by Werner Herzog, named by Roger Ebert as one of his ten best films of 2002. He has also collaborated on publications regarding his great-uncle as well as museum exhibitions in Vienna and Berlin and is hard at work on forthcoming historical biography. Gary is retired, and lives in Los Angeles.”
Reference: https://potterauctions.com/pdf/catalog_102_web.pdf
Wanting to make an investment in early photography coincided with his own unique research. His great-uncle was Zishe Breitbart, (a Modern Jewish Samson in pre-Nazi Germany) billed as “The Strongest Man in the World,” a celebrated circus and vaudeville performer in Europe and America. Fascinated with fact that a Jew could become world famous for his strength and not his intellect, Gary pursued a lifelong study of his ancestor’s life story. Hunting down photos and picture postcards of Breitbart led him to pictures of other strongmen, acrobats, and their peers. This path led him to further discoveries of rare and unique photographs encompassing all of the circus arts and its practitioners, among them including the earliest known photographs at a circus.
Gary produced the film Invincible based on Breitbart’s life, directed by Werner Herzog, named by Roger Ebert as one of his ten best films of 2002. He has also collaborated on publications regarding his great-uncle as well as museum exhibitions in Vienna and Berlin and is hard at work on forthcoming historical biography. Gary is retired, and lives in Los Angeles.”
Reference: https://potterauctions.com/pdf/catalog_102_web.pdf
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