Finding Aid for Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies, 1944-1961

• Descriptive Summary
• Biographical History
• Scope and Content Note
• Summary Contents of Negative Boxes
• Negative Box Contents List

Source

Purchase. Roger Wood. Received: 1966-1967.

Access

The collection is open to research.

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Library for the Performing Arts.

Preferred Citation

Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies 1944-1961, *MGZEN 95-5483, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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 negatives of studio, action, travel, informal and portrait prints of dancers, dance companies, theatrical productions, motion pictures, and ballet special events. Arranged alphabetically by dancer's surname or by dance company name. Each dance company is further arranged alphabetically by dance title or dancer's name. Each negative bears a number assigned by the photographer Roger Wood; these numbers correspond to the numbers that appear on the verso of the related print. For the related prints see Photographic prints of dancers and dance companies, *MGZEB 95-5482. Box 28 contains Wood's register of negatives. Box 29 contains oversized negatives and Box 30 contains unidentified negatives.