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Forgotten Female Photographers Gael Elton Mayo BookBlast® Estates

January 15, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The work of forgotten female photographers, gifted artists hiding in plain sight, is finally coming to light by way of exhibitions, books and more. The UK’s first Eve Arnold retrospective in ten years has just ended […]

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Sparring with Hemingway Robert Ruark 1954-55 BookBlast® Estates

February 24, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

An article about sparring with Hemingway and the stamina required to be a writer fell out of Gael Elton Mayo’s copy of Robert Ruark’s Something of Value while rearranging the overfilled bookshelves in the hallway […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Letter from Brittany BookBlast® Estates

February 4, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This piece came out in April 1954. In the northwest of Spain, […]

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Jean Anouilh Dramatist & Screenwriter 1956 Interview BookBlast® Estates

November 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

From the archive: articles by Gael Elton Mayo. Jean Anouilh (1910-87) dramatist & screenwriter was interviewed by her in 1956 for Queen Magazine. Best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Spain Around Us 1954 BookBlast® Estates

October 29, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This piece came out in April 1954. Madrid is a small town, […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Letter from Madrid 1953 BookBlast® Archive

September 17, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer, artist, and contributor to Harpers & Queen, Apollo, Interiors, Observer, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This article came out […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Spain Revisited Harpers & Queen BookBlast® Estates

May 28, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, was a contributor to Harpers & Queen, Apollo, Interiors and The Observer. Spain Revisited was published in 1985. Spain is a ‘place apart’ from Italy, France and […]

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Magnum Photographic Group Gael Elton Mayo Apollo Magazine BookBlast® Estates

May 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) was writer-researcher for the Magnum Photographic Group, Paris, 1950-56, working with Robert Capa, David Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She wrote Generation X (England) with Cartier-Bresson, later changed to Youth of the […]