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Robert Van Lierop photograph collection

Title: Robert Van Lierop photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Lierop, Robert F. van.
Publication: 1970-1986.

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p1ac Van Lierop, Robert. Robert Van Lierop papers, 1968-1988 (CStRLIN)NYPW93-A137

Description

54 items (.2 lin. ft., 1 box); 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.
17 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
8 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
22 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
6 contact sheets : silver gelatin, b&w ;
1 photographic print : col. ;

Uniform Title

Like it is (Television program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1970-1989.
Group portraits – 1970-1989.
Television stills – 1970-1979.
Publicity photographs – 1970-1979.
Gelatin silver prints – 1970-1989.
Dye coupler prints – 1980-1989.
Contact sheets – 1970-1979.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs bear printed captions on recto; some items have handwritten captions on verso. Some items are duplicates.
Collection contains work by Robert Van Lierop, Bob Kingsley, Zento C. Kankobi, and Like It Is/WABC-TV; some images are credited to Atlantic Records, Arista Records, Far Out/MCA Records, New York Films and United Artists.

Biography (note)

Robert F. Van Lierop, attorney, filmmaker and diplomat, was born in New York City in 1939.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Robert Van Lierop Papers, 1968-1988.

Call Number

Sc Photo Robert Van Lierop Collection

OCLC

NYPG00-F333

Author

Lierop, Robert F. van.

Title

Robert Van Lierop photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1970-1986.

Summary

The Robert Van Lierop Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of his career as a film producer, political activist and foreign diplomat, from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. The collection consists of some candid portraits of Van Lierop; individual and group portraits and candid shots of heads of state, diplomats, political activists and musicians; views of diplomatic and ceremonial gatherings; a political march and rally; street scenes; and some views of African refugees. The collection lacks views of Van Lierop's personal life, his career as an attorney, or his United Nations activities.

The collection includes a candid portrait of Van Lierop, with an unidentified woman, probably during his television assignment in Mozambique (1977); and television and publicity stills from a 1977 broadcast of the WABC (New York) television news program "Like It Is," reporting on the United Nations Conference in Support of the Peoples of Zimbabwe and Namibia, in Maputo, Mozambique. Stills depict United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young and President Samora Machel of Mozambique addressing the Conference; a view of Ambassador Young being interviewed by Van Lierop, who also co-produced the program; and views of Zimbabwean children in refugee camps in Mozambique. Also depicted in the collection is the South Pacific Forum for Pacific heads-of-state, held in Suva, Fiji (1986), which includes individual and group portraits and views from diplomatic sessions, receptions and ceremonial gatherings. Van Lierop attended the Forum as a member of the delegation from the Republic of Vanuatu.

The collection also includes views, mainly on contact sheets, of a march and various rallies sponsored by the Pan-African Solidarity Committee in New York City, which also depict Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., attending a rally, and views of residents and shop owners along the march route (1970). Other depictions of individuals or groups in the collection include candid portraits of Senegalese filmmaker and writer Ousmane Sembène and Zimbabwean nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo (n.d.); a contact sheet with portraits of nurse and civil rights activist Mabel Keaton Staupers (ca. 1970); and publicity photographs of various musical groups, such as Air, Chic, Nova, David Sancious & Tone and War (ca. 1970s).

Biography

Robert F. Van Lierop, attorney, filmmaker and diplomat, was born in New York City in 1939. After graduating from the New York University School of Law in 1967, he began his law career as an assistant counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before turning to private practice in 1968. As a film producer, he did the film documentaries "A Luta Continua" (1971) and "O Povo Organizado" (1976); and as co-producer of the WABC-TV (New York) black news program "Like It Is" he produced several features and documentaries during 1977-1978. He also served as United Nations Ambassador from Vanuatu from 1981-1994.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Robert Van Lierop Papers, 1968-1988.

Local Note

Sc MG 373

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Added Author

Lierop, Robert F. van. Photographer

Kankobi, Zento C. Photographer

Kingsley, Bob. Photographer

Atlantic Recording Corporation.

Arista (Firm)

MCA Records, Inc.

New York Films.

United Artists Corporation.

WABC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Like it is (Television program)

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