Liesl Bradner

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A SELECTION OF CLIPS

TIME MAGAZINE

A World War II Photographer Captures D-Day in New York City

He Got a Standing Ovation at WoodStock then Disappeared

  • US airman’s wartime stay at Downton-style hospital inspires musical

  • Korla Pandit: How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed into the Indian Liberace.

  • Lee Miller: American History Model, Muse, Artist, Newshank – Dec. 2018
  • Nellie Bly: Crusading Troublemaker American History – Feb. 2018
  • Interview with German D-Day Veteran Paul Golz – Military History Jan. 2018
  • The Battle That Never Was – Military History Nov. 2016
  • This Vet Hiked 12 National Parks in 25 days to help with his PTSD- June 7, 2016
  • This Army Ranger Will Live Forever in his Hometown – May 2, 2016
  • On for the long haul  March/April 2015
  • The First World War in Colour by Peter Walther – Oct. 2014
  • Legendary Lensman Phil Stern Recalls his Days as a Combat Photographer in WWII– Nov/Dec 2013

Italian America magazine

  • Oriana Fallaci: The Florentine Spitfire. Summer 2018

BOOKS

  • ‘Snapdragon: The WWII Exploits of Darby’s Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern’  May 22, 2018 (Osprey/Bloomsbury)
  • ‘Matt Weiner’s Mad Men’ (Taschen, July 2016) – Writers Room essay
  • ‘Frank Sinatra has a Cold’ Gay Talese/ Phil Stern (Taschen, 2015) – Phil Stern biography
  • ‘Scrapped Princess’ Trilogy (Tokyopop, 2006) – Editor/Author

  • Nick Brandt: Humans, the Real Threat to wildlife in Africa- Feb. 17, 2019
  • Wild Fires at Night: Stuart Palley’s Photos Capture sinister beauty- Dec. 13, 2018
  • Venice Beach: Last Day of Bohemian Paradise -Aug. 1, 2018
  • Murals of Tibet – April 26, 2018
  • Jackson Pollock’s Drips and Dribbles – March 31, 2018
  • Rembrandt: Up Close and Personal – Feb. 10, 2018
  • Grateful Dead Banner Art at Auction-  Nov. 22, 2017
  • Freedom Now. Civil Rights Photographs: 1963-1968 James Baldwin Steve Shapiro Aug. 2017.
  • Marc Chagall’s Theatrical Side LACMA – July 23, 2017
  • White on White Portraits Made from Trash – March 18, 2017
  • The Soldier of Orange: It’s the Hamilton of the Netherlands – Dec. 25, 2016
  • Astronaut Donald Pettit’s Spacebourne photos  – Nov. 20, 2016
  • Childe Hassam and the Island of Shoals – Sept, 2016
  • Gil Mares’ Port of LA Reflections – August 2016
  • David Burnett’s Olympics –  August. 2016
  • Neil Leifer’s “Relentless” May 2016
  • Nick Brandt’s ‘Inherit the Dust’ photos track Africa’s urban sprawl  Feb. 2016
  • High-flying photographer Vincent Laforet captures the radiant world below him Jan. 2016
  • Matthew Christopher’s Abandonography– Jan. 2015
  • Sebastiao Salgado:  ‘Genesis’ –  April  2013
  • Henry Grossman’s fab moments with the Beatles – March 2013
  • Marching for Civil Rights – Feb. 2013
  • Norman Mailer. Marilyn Monroe. Bert Stern – Dec. 2011
  • John Wayne Caught “Between Scenes” with Phil Stern – Oct. 2011
  • An eccentric flash: photographer Larry Fink – Sept. 2011
  • Linda McCarthy: An Eye for Paul and More May 2011
Architecture
  • William Cody’s quirky cool Palm Springs Architecture– June 2016
  • Celebrating LA Library’s 90th Anniversary – June 2016
  • A private tour of the famed Gamble House & it’s Arts & Crafts style – Aug. 25, 2015
  • A Closer Look at Modernist Utopia Crestwood Hills  March 6, 2015
  • Building up to a cosmic stage – May 15, 2011
  • The White House: An American Dream Come True- Jan. 17, 2010
ART
  • Rembrandt: Up Close and Personal  Feb. 2018
  • David Hockney’s Yosemite May 2016
  • Animal Land’ project puts vanishing species in perspective – Jan. 2016
  • A Revolution in Blues – Norton Simon –  July 2015
  • Roman Empire’s ‘Ancient Luxury’ shows timeless appeal– The Getty Villa Feb. 2015
  • Downton Abbey’ costumes on view at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum  – Feb. 2014
  • At spy exhibit tradecraft trumps digital data dumps – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum Nov. 2013
  • Museums take varied angles for 50th anniversary of JFK assassination – Oct. 2013
  • Museums in Detroit and D.C Display Obama Themed Art – Jan. 2013
  • Song and dance men– Jan. 2013
  • Oh, what tales Madeleine Albright’s pins can tell – Bowers Museum – Oct. 2012
  • Art of the LA River –  May 2010
  • Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century – May 2009
Books – LA Times
  • Architect John Parkinson built for Los Angeles’ growing metropolis – July 28, 2013
  • Jane Maas recalls her Mad Men-era career in advertising – May 23, 2012
  • Chronicling America’s Other Audubon – Apr. 29, 2012
  • Artist Daniel Egneus give little red riding hood a makeover – March 9, 2011
  • ‘East of West L.A.’  – Jan. 3, 2010
  • Fearful Legacy – by Leslie Gilbert Lurie – Dec. 10, 2009
  • Is he messing with us? Ethan Cohen’s poetry – May 7, 2009

COMICS

  • Krazy Kat and a love letter to George Herriman – Aug. 9, 2011
  • The superheroes of Japan who predated Superman and Batman – Nov. 29, 2009

TV

  • ‘Band of Brothers’ actors are a successful, tight unit‘ – Sept. 8, 2011
  • ‘Lost’ reading list: the show’s creators discuss literary influences – May 4, 2010
  • Castle Naked Heat – Nov. 26, 2010
  • Patrick Fishler: Have you seen this actor? July 16, 2009
Travel
  • Oscar winning travels –Feb 23, 2016
  • In Delaware and Pennsylvania, a peek at the homes that DuPont built – June 25, 2015
  • Mustang Monument resort echoes Old West – July 11, 2014
  • Observing the 70th anniversary of D-day from near and far – May 16, 2014
  • A Gem at the foot of Hearst Castle – March 21, 2014
Q&A’s/PROFILES
  • ‘Longmire’ author Craig Johnson on TV, ‘Serpent’s Tooth
  • Lou Diamond Philips still standing and delivering
  • Taschen makes it’s mark with high-end book stores
  • Author Jeff Kinney on his movie-bound ‘wimpy kid’
  • Danny Elfman he really does know the score
  • Giancarlo Esposito: his vintage bikes are an unqualified Triumph

WIZARDS OF HOLLYWOOD SERIES

Interviews with award winning masters of visual effects

John Dykstra, Ken Ralston, John Knoll, Steve Preeg, Kevin Mack, Voker Engel and  Bill Westenhofer.

  • Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg Show at the Skirball
    The Resistance Before the #Resistance 2018
  • Painting a Path out of Prison
  • A Neighbor Named Adolf by Edgar Feuchtwanger  2018
  • LA Raza Again empowers L.A.’s Chicano Community 2017
  • The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
  • Survivors in the Ukraine by Stephen Shore
  • Dickey Chapelle: Under Fire by John Garofolo
  • Almond Garden: Portraits from the Women’s Prison in Afghanistan by Gabriela Maj
  • Melting Away: A Ten Year Journey Through Our Endangered Polar Regions by Camille Seaman
  • Living on a Dollar a Day by Thomas A. Nazario and Renée C. Byer
  • Gays in the Military by Vincent Cianni
  • The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen
  •  W. Eugene Smith: The Big Book

  • Civil War Miniseries ‘To Appomattox’ Seeks $2.5 Million 

RADIO/TV

History Channel: Interview  “Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg. (July 2019)

Korla Pandit “Passing” Interview KCUR 89.3 – Sept. 16, 2015

MISC.

  • 70 years since the worst naval disaster in history Business Insider – July 29, 2015
  • ‘To Save a Life” is a faith-based initiative – Jan. 21, 2010
  • Artist Dilemma: Staying Happy and Solvent until that big break – LA Times Business – Aug. 1, 1999
  • All the Rave – Florida Magazine

More clips here and at The Los Angeles Times