Richard Cohn Bio:
Magician and Magic Historian Richard Cohn was born in Brooklyn a long time ago. He has appeared in theaters, hotels, museums, libraries and conventions as well as on the internet and television and has been featured in the New York Times and on PBS. Mr. Cohn has made special presentations on Magic History in New York, London, Chicago and Coney Island and has been a consultant for t.v., motion pictures and print including Cris Angel, ABC-TV, and Atlas Obscura. His writings have appeared in Genii, MAGIC, The Magic Circular, Collectors Forum, Brooklyn Bridge, Magic Times, Yankee Collector and Magicol. He is noted for his knowledge of the history of magic shops and the magic of New York, Brooklyn and Coney Island. Richard Cohn is an Associate of the Inner Magic Circle (London) and a long standing member of the Society of American Magicians.
Jim Moore Bio:
After a youth spent delivering groceries and founding Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond fan clubs, Jim R. Moore attended NYU Film School and the School of Visual Arts. He began his career as a professional photographer for the rock ‘n’ roll magazines Zygote and Crawdaddy, where his subjects included the Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Rod Stewart, and the Rolling Stones. During this time, he also captured now-iconic images for Philippe Petit’s World Trade Center high-wire walk and continued his own work as a street performer. This led to his subsequent career as a passionate and prolific documenter of “the eccentric performing arts.”
He has photographed the Movement Theater Mime Clown Festival in Philadelphia, Circus Flora in St. Louis, the Big Apple Circus in New York, Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, and the Festival of Fools in Burlington, Vermont; and served as photographer in residence for The American Mime Theatre, 1975-2011. His photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Out, Dance Magazine, and in the books Acrobats of the Soul (Ron Jenkins, 1988), Free to Act (Mira Felner, 1990), Le Mime Marcel Marceau (Marcel Marceau, 1996), To Reach the Clouds (Philippe Petit, 2002), Puppetry: A World History (Eileen Blumenthal, 2005), On the High Wire (Philippe Petit, 2019), and Out of the Shadows: The Henson Festivals and Their Impact on Contemporary Puppet Theater (Leslee Asch, 2020). His work has been exhibited at Lincoln Center, the University of Ohio, Festival of Fools, the Ohio Theatre, and the Cornelia Street Gallery; and appears in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Yale Theatre Library, Harvard Theatre Library, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is the winner of the 2012 Coney Island Film Festival Award for the short silent film The Ridiculous Romantic, and the 2013 DeWitt Stern Local Hero Award from the Alliance of Resident Theatres. His recent book project is a Tribute to the magician, inventor, and artist Jeff Sheridan. Titled: 'VISUAL ALCHEMY ~ The Magic Life of Jeff Sheridan' to be published in May 2023 by Vaudevisuals Press. Hardcover, 120 pages b&w, and color photographs. Essays by Jeff McBride, Philippe Petit, Cardone, Ken Weber, Peter Samelson, Michael Lee, George Robinson, Jens Thronwachter-Jeton, Montegue Chadbourne, Mark Setteducati, Kevin C Carr, Mark Levy, Richard Kaufman, Jim Sisti, and Foreword by Lance Burton.
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