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Contact Strips and Head Shots by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Curator Of Exhibitions, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Contact Strips of Anna Held (above) and Lillian Burkhardt One of the themes of the exhibition Head Shots is the selection process through which performers view options and chose their headshots.  Like the photographs themselves, the selection process has changed with technology.  Performers waited for the invention of reproducible negatives before they adopted photographic headshots"access to negatives and dup…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:54PM on August 12, 2015

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