Swope's career as the performance photographer of record began when her classmate, Jerome Robbins, asked her to photograph rehearsals of the show on which he was working, West Side Story, in 1957. She came to New York to attend the School of American Ballet.
Biographical/historical: Internationally acclaimed performing arts photographer Martha Swope was born in Waco, Texas, and is a graduate of Baylor University.
Series V: Exhibition prints, 1957-circa 1993 (4 boxes). Series III: Prints, 1957-1994 and undated (45 boxes). Sub-series: Color, 1958-1994 and undated Black and white, 1959-1998 and undated. Series II: Large negatives, 1958-1994 and undated (7 boxes). Names Swope, Martha (Photographer) Dates / Origin Date Created: 1955 - 2002 (Approximate) Library locations Billy Rose Theatre Division Shelf locator: *T-VIM 2010-048 Topics Theater Dance Actors Actresses Photographers - United States Theatrical productions - United States Genres Photographs Notes Content: Series I: Negatives, ca. It documents Swope's career photographing theater productions, dance companies, such as American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Martha Graham Dance Company, and New York City Ballet, opera productions, music groups, circus, film, television, individual performers, and performing arts-related personalities. There are also some programs and clippings filed with the images, often illustrating where the image was published or used. Description The collection consists of over 1,520,000 images, black and white and color, on contact sheets with corresponding negatives (mostly 35 mm and 120), transparencies, slides, and prints taken by Martha Swope from circa 1955-2002 (bulk dates 1957-1994).
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