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Creator
Freyman, Zachary
Call number
*MGZEB 22-0010
Physical description
3.0 linear feet (8 boxes)
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Zachary Freyman photographs, *MGZEB 22-0010. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Repository
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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Zachary Freyman was a photographer who made studio portraits and headshots of ballet dancers. Many of these photographs were published in Dance Magazine in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The collection primarily comprises black and white negatives, and also includes some prints.

Biographical/historical information

Zachary Freyman was a New York City-based photographer in the 1950s and early 1960s whose work covered fashion, photojournalism, and portraits of actors and dancers. His work appeared in several periodicals, including GQ, After Dark, and Dance Magazine. Freyman's dance portraits are primarily headshots and action shots made in a studio environment.

Freyman's photographs are also featured in Dancers You Should Know: Twenty Biographies (1964), a collection of Dance Magazine articles written and edited by Saul Goodman.

Scope and arrangement

The Zachary Freyman photographs are undated, but Freyman was a practicing photographer from the 1950s through the 1960s. This collection covers Freyman's work for Dance Magazine. Freyman worked with dancers in a studio rather than during live performances, and each dancer's portfolio includes traditional headshots and full-bodied portraits of the dancer in motion.

The collection comprises negatives with the ballet dancer or performance identified and is arranged alphabetically. There are also two boxes of prints in the collection, and some have been mounted on board. Some prints have the dancer or performance identified, but most do not have any identifying information.

Many of the dancers in this collection were participants in a Jacob's Pillow performance or members of a larger dance company, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, or Limón Dance Company. Specific dancers of note in the collection include Alvin Ailey, Janet Collins, Anna Halprin, Judith Jamison, José Limón, Alicia Markova, Yvonne Rainer, Chita Rivera, and Paul Taylor. Freyman also photographed the dancers from the New York City Ballet for the 1964 production of The Nutcracker in costume.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Donated by Zachary Freyman in 1990.

Processing information

Processed by Emily P. Dunne in 2022

Using the collection

Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor