- Creator
- Shilkret, Wayne
- Call number
- JPB 17-16
- Physical description
- 3.5 linear feet (9 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- Wayne Shilkret photographs, JPB 17-16. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Repository
- Music Division
- Access to materials
- Some collections held by the Dance, Music, Recorded Sound, and Theatre Divisions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. For general guidance about requesting offsite materials, please consult: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/lpa/requesting-archival-materials
Wayne Shilkret was a photographer who worked for Hurok Attractions, Inc., a booking and promotion agency managed by American impresario Sol Hurok. Shilkret subsequently worked as a photographer for the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Wayne Shilkret photographs consist mostly of dance, music, and opera photographs taken in the 1960s and 1970s. Subjects of the photographs include ballet and dance performances, military tattoos, and circus performances; individual ballet dancers, conductors, violinists, pianists, and opera singers; and Sol Hurok himself. There are a large number of images of the Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi's prima ballerina, Maya Plisetskaya. Photographs are mostly contact sheets and negatives, though there are some enlarged prints. A small number of photographs taken by photographers other than Shilkret are included in the collection. The collection also contains printed promotional material, including ballet programs and a poster of Mstislav Rostropovich.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Donated by Cindy Shilkret, 2017.
Processing information
Processed by Kit Fluker, 2017.
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Music DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor