Hella Hammid
Hella Hammid | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hella Heyman July 15, 1921 Germany |
| Died | May 1, 1992 Los Angeles |
| Nationality | German-American |
| Other names | Hella Hamon (alternate spelling of Heyman) |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Hella Hammid (15 July 1921- 1 May 1992) was a German-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, as well as in numerous books, such as The Family of Man.[1][2]
Hammid was also a remote viewer who worked with Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff at SRI International doing work for the CIA.[3][4][5][6][7]
She also worked with Stephan A. Schwartz on The Alexandria Project, considered to be psychic archaeology.[8][9][10]
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.[11]
Early life and education
Hammid was born Hella Heyman on July 15, 1921 in Frankfurt, Germany.[12] She immigrated to the United States on September 14, 1937, moved from New York City to Los Angeles, and then in fall 1940 began attending Black Mountain College as student, according to Buncombe County, North Carolina immigration records.[13]
Heyman married director and cinematographer Alexander Hammid (Alexandr Hackenschmied) after his divorce in 1948 from Maya Deren (Eleanora Derenkowsky). The three worked together on Deren's films At Land (1944),[14] Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) and Invocation: Maya Deren (1987).[15] In her early work as a cinematographer and actress, Heyman is sometimes also credited as Hella Hamon.[16]
After their marriage, Hella and Alexander Hammid moved to Upper Manhattan and had two children, Julia (1950) and gem photographer Tino (1952-2015).[17][18]
References
- ^ "Hella Hammid". The Sun Magazine.
- ^ "Hella Hammid". The Sun Magazine.
- ^ "EXPERIMENT WITH HELLA HAMMID | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)". www.cia.gov.
- ^ "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". February 22, 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.
- ^ "Hella Hammid (1921-1992) - Find A Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "Page 414, Buncombe County: Alien, Naturalization and Citizenship Records: Alien Registration Record". digital.ncdcr.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Maya Deren: Prelude to Generating a Dream Palette". illuminationgallery.net. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "Hella Heyman". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "Reviews: The Trance Films of Maya Deren". www.weirdwildrealm.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "Alexandr Hackenschmied - Monoskop". monoskop.org. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "Celebrated Gem Photographer Tino Hammid Dies". JCK. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
