BIOGRAPHY
Lionel Martinez
A life long resident of New York, Lionel Martinez was born in Brooklyn in the late 1940ÃÆÃâÃââÃÆââââ¬Ã
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Lionel Martinez began his media career as a New York underground filmmaker. Several of his early works are still listed in the Film Cooperative catalog.
He has worked on various aspects of documentary commercial and industrial film productions. Currently he works in independent television and Internet production.
He is the author of seven books; three of them are popular histories. His photographs have appeared in ÃÆÃâÃââÃÆââââ¬Ã
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Recently he has had a one man show his new digital imaging works at the Andrews Building Management gallery, was a participant in the spring Washington Heights Art Walk and part of the NYC Expo Artists digital group show.
In 2006 Lionel was a featured artist in the North SoHo Art Show and was in the Photo Show at Gallery 402. Four of his documentary photos were included in the permanent Tribute WTC Visitor Center exhibition.
