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FLASH/BACK:
A showing of "Who Is Marvin Israel?," a film on legendary art director Marvin Israel, with introduction by Yolanda Cuomo and director Neil Selkirk.

SMALL TALKS SERIES:
Extra large ideas find an intimate home in a formal setting. Small Talks at Bumble and bumble are opportunities to explore a panoply of visual ephemera, flights of fancy and literal brilliance. Passions will be exposed, methods unveiled, and stories shared in a series designed to provoke, inspire and delight.

"Who Is Marvin Israel?" is a documentary about the life and work of the enigmatic Marvin Israel, artist, designer, art director and teacher. Marvin's influence on Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and many of the most important photographers of the last half of the 20th century is explored in the words of those who knew him.

Yolanda Cuomo, art director, designer and educator, has collaborated for over two decades with both visual and performing artists such as Richard Avedon, Paul Simon, Twyla Tharp, and Laurie Anderson. Her studio designed and produced the worldwide exhibition and book, Diane Arbus Revelations, the first major retrospective of Diane Arbus’s photography since 1972. Other notable book projects are Pre Pop Warhol; September 11, by Magnum Photographers; Farewell to Bosnia: Gilles Peress; Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs; Malaparte: A House Like Me; and Kenneth Cole: Footnotes. Other notable works include CD design for artists Paul Simon and Laurie Anderson; posters for Twyla Tharp Dance; and art direction of Aperture Magazine, which received the prestigious 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence from The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). In 1994, Cuomo received the Infinity award for Design from ICP. Current projects are Performance by Richard Avedon: a collection of Avedon’s portraits of performing artists, art direction of Aperture Magazine, and CR Magazine. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union and is presently teaching at New York University and The School of Visual Arts.

Neil Selkirk has a national reputation as a photographer of powerful and uncompromising portraits. His work has appeared in virtually all the major U.S. magazines, including Esquire, Interview, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. His work appeared in the first issues and on the covers of Spy, Wired, Paper and Colors. He maintains a studio in New York, specializing in advertising and corporate work, and teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.