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The photographer

Title: The photographer [videorecording] / movement construction, David Gordon ; director, JoAnne Akalaitis ; music, Philip Glass.
Publication: 1983.

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	disc 2	Moving image	Permit needed	*MGZIDVD 5-679 disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	disc 1	Moving image	Permit needed	*MGZIDVD 5-679 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (89 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Music-drama based on the scandal-filled life of the photographer, Edward Muybridge, whose motion studies of people and animals made him famous, and whose murder of his wife's alleged lover made him notorious.

Uniform Title

Photographer (Theater piece)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Dance.

Note

Duration: disc 1 (62 min.); disc 2 (27 min.).

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Book, Robert Coe; scenery/costumes, Santo Loquasto; lighting, Jennifer Tipton; projections designed by Wendall K. Harrington, Luminous! Productions, Inc.

Event (note)

Videotaped at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House in Oct. 1983, Sunday [Oct. 9 or Oct. 16].

Funding (note)

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-679

OCLC

NYPY896034217-F

Title

The photographer [videorecording] / movement construction, David Gordon ; director, JoAnne Akalaitis ; music, Philip Glass.

Imprint

1983.

Credits

Book, Robert Coe; scenery/costumes, Santo Loquasto; lighting, Jennifer Tipton; projections designed by Wendall K. Harrington, Luminous! Productions, Inc.

Performer

Cast: Bart Acocella (The boy), Lola Pashalinski (The mesmerist), Jonathan Bolt (Eadweard), Nick Flynn (Harry), William Duff-Griffin (The eulogist/prosecutor), Ellen McElduff (Flora), Elaine Hausman (Mrs. Smith), Valda Setterfield (The lecturer/woman in water), Frank Maraden (The advocate/defense attorney), Harry Whittaker Sheppard (The photographer), Wanda Bimson (The mermaid/statue), Blondell Cummings (The angel/bather), and others, with the Philip Glass Ensemble. In addition to Valda Setterfield, other members of David Gordon/Pickup Company in the cast are: Susan Eschelbach, Margaret Hoeffel, Keith Marshall, Nina Martin, and Paul Thompson.

Event

Videotaped at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House in Oct. 1983, Sunday [Oct. 9 or Oct. 16].

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Funding

This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System Details

DVD.

Local Note

Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-802.

Added Author

Cummings, Blondell. Performer

Setterfield, Valda. Performer

Acocella, Bart. Performer

Pashalinski, Lola. Performer

Bolt, Jonathan. Performer

Flynn, Nick. Performer

Duff-Griffin, William. Performer

McElduff, Ellen. Performer

Hausman, Elaine, 1949- Performer

Maraden, Frank. Performer

Bimson, Wanda. Performer

Eschelbach, Susan. Performer

Hoeffel, Margaret. Performer

Marshall, Keith. Performer

Martin, Nina. Performer

Thompson, Paul. Performer

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, choreographer.

Loquasto, Santo, set designer.

Loquasto, Santo, costume designer.

Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.

Glass, Philip. Photographer.

Akalaitis, JoAnne, director.

Coe, Robert. Author

Harrington, Wendall K., projection design.

David Gordon/Pickup Company.

Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival.

Added Title

Photographer (Theater piece)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-679

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