Hella Hammid (15 July 1921 – 1 May 1992) was an American photographer whose career included teaching at UCLA. Her freelance photographs appeared in diverse publications including Life, Ebony, The Sun and The New York Times. Her softly backlit picture of two young Italian girls dancing, watched by other children in front of the abutments of a stone building, was chosen by Edward Steichen for his 1955 world-touring MoMA exhibition The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million visitors.[1][2][3][4][5]
Hammid had a long professional career taking "candid portraits" of children and families for private clients as well as contributing to a number of book projects. Hammid's photographic career is the subject of the book, Hella Hammid: Feminine Fate. One of her most widely circulated images is the Tree Poster, which portrays writer Deena Metzger, a close friend of Hammid's.
Hammid was also a remote viewer who worked with Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff at SRI International doing work for the CIA.[6][7][8][9][10]
She also worked with Stephan A. Schwartz on The Alexandria Project, considered to be psychic archaeology.[11][12][13]
Hammid participated in the first Gateway Voyage program offered by Robert Monroe, founder of The Monroe Institute, that was held at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur in 1973.[14]
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^Steichen, Edward; Sandburg, Carl; Norman, Dorothy; Lionni, Leo; Mason, Jerry; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York) (1955). The family of man: The photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
^Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Sandeen, Eric J (1995), Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1558-8
^"EXPERIMENT WITH HELLA HAMMID | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 19 January 2017.
^"IRVA – Russell Targ". www.irva.org.
^"Hella Hammid – From the Secret Life of Plants to The Play of Light – Remote Viewing". www.ebdir.net.
^"Remote Viewing Processes And Layers Of Meaning". www.bibliotecapleyades.net.
^"HellaHammid_remoteviewing". 22 February 2008 – via YouTube.
^Schwartz, Stephan A., The Alexandria Project, 1983, ISBN 978-1-5040-2665-9, Open Road Media, NY.
^"IRVA – Stephan Schwartz". www.irva.org.
^Targ, Russel, Schwartz, Stephan, A Tribute to Hella Hammid: The First Woman Remote Viewer, 2009 Conference, International Remote Viewing Association, DVD published 2018, ASIN B078S16Q44.
^Stockton, B, Catapult: The Biography of Robert A. Monroe, Donning Publishers, Virginia, 1989, ISBN 9780898657562.
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