Research Catalog

Title

Image as history [videorecording] : a photographers' roundtable / [presented by] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Publication

1994.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Brazil, Tom.
• McAdams, Dona Ann.
• Moore, Barbara, 1936-
• Moore, Peter, 1932-1993.
• Van Haaften, Julia.
• Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi
• Ren-Lay, Judith.
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• New performance in found space (Exhibition: 1994 : New York, N.Y.)
• DHCA.

Description

2 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (93 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Topics include: the choice of performance as a subject ; practical concerns of performance photography ; questions of style ; ethical problems regarding the use of performers as subjects, and the use and misuse of their images by the media ; the photographer's special perceptions of the performance ; the different qualities of still photographs and moving pictures ; and the challenges of performing and photographing in found spaces. During the concluding question-and-answer session, a prominent speaker is dancer-choreographer Judith Ren-Lay.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Barbara Cohen-Stratyner/Exhibitions Program, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Subjects

• Dance
• Performance art
• Panel discussions
• Dance > Exhibitions > New York (State) > New York > 1994
• Documentary photography
• Performance spaces
• Video
• Avant-garde dance
• Photographers > United States
• Dance photography > Exhibitions
• New performance in found space (Exhibition: 1994 : New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

• Panel discussions.
• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Presented in conjunction with the exhibition New performance in found space: documentary photographs by Tom Brazil and Dona Ann McAdams with a selection of photographs by Peter Moore, as well as performance artifacts by Power Boothe, John Kelly, Liz Prince and Huck Snyder ; a public program of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; executive director, Robert Marx ; curator of exhibitions, Barbara Stratyner.

Performer (note)

• Panel: Tom Brazil, photographer ; Dona Ann McAdams, photographer ; Barbara Moore, art historian and widow of Peter Moore ; Barbara Stratyner, curator of the exhibition ; and Julia van Haaften, curator of the photography collection, The New York Public Library.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in the Amsterdam Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on October 24, 1994, by Character Generators/Video.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4388

OCLC

NYPY95-F469

Title

Image as history [videorecording] : a photographers' roundtable / [presented by] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Imprint

1994.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Panel: Tom Brazil, photographer ; Dona Ann McAdams, photographer ; Barbara Moore, art historian and widow of Peter Moore ; Barbara Stratyner, curator of the exhibition ; and Julia van Haaften, curator of the photography collection, The New York Public Library.

Event

Videotaped in the Amsterdam Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on October 24, 1994, by Character Generators/Video.

Local Subject

Performance spaces.

Avant-garde dance.

Added Author

Brazil, Tom. Speaker

McAdams, Dona Ann. Speaker

Moore, Barbara, 1936- Speaker

Moore, Peter, 1932-1993. Speaker

Van Haaften, Julia. Moderator

Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi, curator.

Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi, speaker.

Ren-Lay, Judith. Speaker

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

New performance in found space (Exhibition: 1994 : New York, N.Y.)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4388