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Description: Roger Wood, a British photographer, was born in Madras, India, 1920. Starting to photograph ballet in 1944, he soon became one of the best know dance photographers in Great Britain. He has published several books of dance photographs, including Katherine Dunham, her Dancers, Singers, Musicians(Richard Buckle, editor, 1949), The Sadler's Wells Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden(1951), and The Theatre Ballet of Sadler's Wells in photographs(1952). His interest later turned to archeology and photography and has published works on Egypt, Saudi Arabian antiquities, and Persia. Collection includes studio, action, travel, informal and portrait prints of dancers, dance companies, theatrical productions, motion pictures, and ballet special events. Arranged in albums alphabetically, by dancer's surname or by dance company name. Each dance company's prints are further arranged alphabetically by dance title or dancer's name. The prints for each title are arranged as they appeared on the film roll, and may have been taken during more than one performance; therefore, does not necessarily reflect the choreographic sequence. Many of the prints are contact sheets and other proofs. Numbers on verso of each print correspond to the photographic negative numbers assigned by Roger Wood; see his register of negative numbers in Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies, *MGZEN 95-5483, box 28. Some prints have handwritten instructions on recto and/or verso for cropping, lightening, darkening, masking, etc.
Names: Wood, Roger (Creator); DHCA; Wood, Roger (Photographer)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1944 - 1961
Library locations: Jerome Robbins Dance Division; Shelf locator: *MGZEB 95-5482
Topics: Dance; Dance companies
Genres: Photographs
Notes: Biographical/historical: Roger Wood, a British photographer, was born in Madras, India, 1920. Starting to photograph ballet in 1944, he soon became one of the best know dance photographers in Great Britain. He has published several books of dance photographs, including Katherine Dunham, her Dancers, Singers, Musicians(Richard Buckle, editor, 1949), The Sadler's Wells Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden(1951), and The Theatre Ballet of Sadler's Wells in photographs(1952). His interest later turned to archeology and photography and has published works on Egypt, Saudi Arabian antiquities, and Persia.; Content: Box of oversized prints is labeled Vol. 72; Content: Many of the prints are contact sheets and other proofs. Numbers on verso of each print correspond to photographic negative numbers assigned by Roger Wood; see his register of negative numbers in *MGZEN 95-5483, Box 28. Some prints have hand-written instructions on recto and/or verso for cropping, lightening, darkening, masking, etc
Physical Description: Contact sheets; Proofs; Extent: 71 albums, 1 box ca. 10, 541 photographic prints
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: *MGZEB 95-5482; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12176520; MSS Unit ID: 19624; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 957568f0-0eab-0136-cd05-0172f44580ce