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{"value"=>"186041", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*MGZEB 22-0021", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b22819689", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1964-2019", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1964/2019"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Nathaniel Tileston photographs"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"36 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"18.71 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Nathaniel Tileston (1942-2019) was an American photographer of dance and performance art. The Nathaniel Tileston photographs date from 1964 to 2019, and represent his unusually concentrated career photographing experimental dance and theater performances in New York City and Chicago from the late 1960s through 1982. The collection includes his freelance assignment files, which hold photographic prints, contact sheets, slides, transparencies, and negatives; some early student work; and some exhibition prints."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Tileston, Nathaniel", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Nathaniel Tileston was an American photographer noted for his documentation of dance performances in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. Tileston, who was born in 1942 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, before studying photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.</p> <p>In the early 1970s, Tileston moved to New York City and began working for the prominent theater and dance photographer, Martha Swope. By the mid-1970s, Tileston was working independently as a professional freelance photographer covering dance and theater, especially the more experimental works of the downtown scene, publishing his images regularly in the <span class=\"title\">Soho Weekly News</span>, and occasionally in the <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">Performance Art Journal</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Village Voice</span>. His photographs were exhibited at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in 1978 to 1979 and are held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.</p> <p>In 1982, Tileston effectively curtailed his dance and theater photography career when he and his wife Susan moved to Nova Scotia, Canada to run a bed and breakfast inn. The couple were active members of the local arts community in Nova Scotia and Tileston accepted occasional freelance photography assignments from the Parks Canada Agency. Tileston died in 2019.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Nathaniel Tileston photographs represent Tileston's unusually concentrated career photographing experimental dance and theater performances in New York City and Chicago from the late 1960s through 1982. The collection includes his freelance assignment files, a box of exhibition prints, and some early student work.</p> <p>The freelance assignment files comprise the bulk of the collection. Images in these files depict dancers and choreographers in live performance or rehearsal, often in Off-Broadway theaters, Soho lofts, gallery spaces, and other alternative performance venues. A small number of portraits of dancers and other cultural figures are also included. Among the many prominent choreographers and dancers featured are: David Gordon, Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Trisha Brown, William Dunas, Deborah Hay, Sara Rudner, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Risa Jaroslow, and Meredith Monk. Of particular note is Tileston's extensive coverage of the Chicago production of <span class=\"title\">Hair</span> at the Shubert Theatre in 1969 and 1970, which includes auditions, rehearsals, the first photo call, and subsequent performances. Most assignment files hold a mix of 8 x 10-inch black-and-white photographic prints, contact sheets, slides, transparencies, and negatives. Plentiful handwritten notes about performance events and technical details of the shoot accompany these files. Printed promotional material occasionally appears in assignment files, as well.</p> <p>Exhibition prints, which are found in Box 19, date from 1976 to 1981 and represent Tileston's favorite selections from his prime working years in New York City. These 11 x 14-inch black-and-white prints are usually labeled and many are matted. Some of these images may have been featured in the \"Alternative Gestures: Another Look at Dance Photography\" exhibition at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center that ran in the winter of 1978-1979.</p> <p>The collection also includes some scattered work Tileston likely created as an art student, such as a large file on the Green Bay and Western Railroad shot in 1968. A significant quantity of negatives, dating from 1964-1970, are housed separately from assignment files and are only minimally labeled. These negatives can be found in Boxes 32 to 36 and are arranged roughly chronologically. Some uncut, unsorted, and unlabeled rolls of transparencies comprise most of the scant color work in the collection. These miscellaneous transparencies are found in Boxes 25 to 31.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Nathaniel Tileston photographs are primarily arranged alphabetically by folder title, which is usually a personal name, title of a performance, or a publication title. A smaller section of miscellaneous prints, minimally labeled negatives and unsorted, unlabeled transparencies follows the alphabetical run.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection of photographs was a gift from Susan Tileston and John Eide in 2021.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Heather Halliday</span> in <span class=\"date\">2022</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1964
- keydate
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1964
- date_end
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2019
- date_inclusive_start
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1964
- date_inclusive_end
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2019
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Nathaniel Tileston photographs, *MGZEB 22-0021. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}