White studio

For twenty-years from 1905 to 1925 White Studio was Broadway's foremost photographer of stage production. Founded by New York saloonkeeper Luther S. White (1857-1936), this photographic agency employed a series of cameramen from 1903 to 1936, some talented, some not, who recorded hundreds of performers and thousands of productions of the American stage. The Studio was divided into two operations: the portrait studio located on Broadway and a mobile team of production photographers who hauled lights, tripods, and cumbersome Agfa and Kodak plate cameras to the dress rehearsals for stage pictures. Two great artists worked uncredited in the portrait studio: For much White Studio's history, George Lucas was chief stage photographer. Lucas revolutionized production photography with the introduction of flash-pan photography, a method of illumination safer than 'flash-light' (magnesium powder, alcohol, ignited by blow torch) used by Luther White, proprietor of the studio, in later life claimed to have been a photographer. Lucas, however, stated that White never posed or processed photographs. He was a broker and businessman. As an entrepreneur, White was effective. When Joseph Byron and his Percy were experiencing differences of opinion in 1905, White bought the elder Byron's equipment and usurped his client list. White then secured an exclusive agreement with the Schubert organization to record their New York productions. During the 1920s, the studio lacked the aesthetic panache ...

Description The most comprehensive record of the American stage for the years 1903-1936, the collection of White Studio theatrical photographs reflects over 7,000 professional photographic assignments documenting more than 85% of all live performances of theater and vaudeville in New York. Names Dates / Origin Date Created: Library locations Shelf locator: *T-Vim 1956-002 Topics Genres Notes Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project. Biographical/historical: White is credited with the development of flash-pan artificial lighting, which enabled him to cut drastically the time necessary for studio and location photography. By 1904, with the further development of flashlighting, the White Studio began to document theater, opera, music, dance and circus production on assignment from producers and theater owners such as David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, Lee and J.J. Shubert and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. who wanted to provide visual material for the press. White's methods were considered ideal for creating images suitable for rotogravure reproduction in newspapers. Photographs were often taken from the first balcony or lighting booth at the final dress rehearsal and productions were often re-photographed after major cast changes, providing documentation of replacement actors as well as the original cast. In some cases, set models and costume sketches were also photographed. White Studio soon became the leading entertainment photography studio of its day, providing pub...

In the initial planning stages of my wedding, I wanted one of those "contemporary" photographers who did all of the artsy angular shots that look awesome to us twenty-somethings who grew up looking at photoshopped images on the internet. Those photographers all book weddings very early, and they're all charging a ton of money for outsourced printing and cheap digital kitchy photo quality. When I met with and interviewed Don at the White Studio, he had no qualms differentiating himself from the "others" in his field. The truth is, when I'm 80 years old and looking back at my wedding- I'm not going to want a fish-eye lens shot...I'm going to want to see who was there, and the truth of what took place- not some trendy, pretentious artisting rendering. I hired them on spot. With the exeption of running a few minutes late on the day of the wedding, I could not be happier with my results. The photos are clear, honest, beautiful, classic and the arrangement of the albums is nothing short of perfect. They have a real eye for simple. artistic photography that captures the personality of the couple without losing quality. I applaud them for that, and would (and have) recommend them to anyone looking to have a wedding in the Albany area. Sent on 07/03/2008 • The photographer showed up to take pictures with film, NOT digital as was promised. The pictures were beautiful and they were flexible with how long we kept the proofs. I wish we could have kept all of the proofs or had a CD of a...

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Description The most comprehensive record of the American stage for the years 1903-1936, the collection of White Studio theatrical photographs reflects over 7,000 professional photographic assignments documenting more than 85% of all live performances of theater and vaudeville in New York. Names Dates / Origin Date Created: Library locations Shelf locator: *T-Vim 1956-002 Topics Genres Notes Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project. Biographical/historical: White is credited with the development of flash-pan artificial lighting, which enabled him to cut drastically the time necessary for studio and location photography. By 1904, with the further development of flashlighting, the White Studio began to document theater, opera, music, dance and circus production on assignment from producers and theater owners such as David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, Lee and J.J. Shubert and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. who wanted to provide visual material for the press. White's methods were considered ideal for creating images suitable for rotogravure reproduction in newspapers. Photographs were often taken from the first balcony or lighting booth at the final dress rehearsal and productions were often re-photographed after major cast changes, providing documentation of replacement actors as well as the original cast. In some cases, set models and costume sketches were also photographed. White Studio soon became the leading entertainment photography studio of its day, providing pub...

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In the initial planning stages of my wedding, I wanted one of those "contemporary" photographers who did all of the artsy angular shots that look awesome to us twenty-somethings who grew up looking at photoshopped images on the internet. Those photographers all book weddings very early, and they're all charging a ton of money for outsourced printing and cheap digital kitchy photo quality. When I met with and interviewed Don at the White Studio, he had no qualms differentiating himself from the "others" in his field. The truth is, when I'm 80 years old and looking back at my wedding- I'm not going to want a fish-eye lens shot...I'm going to want to see who was there, and the truth of what took place- not some trendy, pretentious artisting rendering. I hired them on spot. With the exeption of running a few minutes late on the day of the wedding, I could not be happier with my results. The photos are clear, honest, beautiful, classic and the arrangement of the albums is nothing short of perfect. They have a real eye for simple. artistic photography that captures the personality of the couple without losing quality. I applaud them for that, and would (and have) recommend them to anyone looking to have a wedding in the Albany area. Sent on 07/03/2008 • The photographer showed up to take pictures with film, NOT digital as was promised. The pictures were beautiful and they were flexible with how long we kept the proofs. I wish we could have kept all of the proofs or had a CD of a...

For twenty-years from 1905 to 1925 White Studio was Broadway's foremost photographer of stage production. Founded by New York saloonkeeper Luther S. White (1857-1936), this photographic agency employed a series of cameramen from 1903 to 1936, some talented, some not, who recorded hundreds of performers and thousands of productions of the American stage. The Studio was divided into two operations: the portrait studio located on Broadway and a mobile team of production photographers who hauled lights, tripods, and cumbersome Agfa and Kodak plate cameras to the dress rehearsals for stage pictures. Two great artists worked uncredited in the portrait studio: For much White Studio's history, George Lucas was chief stage photographer. Lucas revolutionized production photography with the introduction of flash-pan photography, a method of illumination safer than 'flash-light' (magnesium powder, alcohol, ignited by blow torch) used by Luther White, proprietor of the studio, in later life claimed to have been a photographer. Lucas, however, stated that White never posed or processed photographs. He was a broker and businessman. As an entrepreneur, White was effective. When Joseph Byron and his Percy were experiencing differences of opinion in 1905, White bought the elder Byron's equipment and usurped his client list. White then secured an exclusive agreement with the Schubert organization to record their New York productions. During the 1920s, the studio lacked the aesthetic panache ...

For twenty-years from 1905 to 1925 White Studio was Broadway's foremost photographer of stage production. Founded by New York saloonkeeper Luther S. White (1857-1936), this photographic agency employed a series of cameramen from 1903 to 1936, some talented, some not, who recorded hundreds of performers and thousands of productions of the American stage. The Studio was divided into two operations: the portrait studio located on Broadway and a mobile team of production photographers who hauled lights, tripods, and cumbersome Agfa and Kodak plate cameras to the dress rehearsals for stage pictures. Two great artists worked uncredited in the portrait studio: For much White Studio's history, George Lucas was chief stage photographer. Lucas revolutionized production photography with the introduction of flash-pan photography, a method of illumination safer than 'flash-light' (magnesium powder, alcohol, ignited by blow torch) used by Luther White, proprietor of the studio, in later life claimed to have been a photographer. Lucas, however, stated that White never posed or processed photographs. He was a broker and businessman. As an entrepreneur, White was effective. When Joseph Byron and his Percy were experiencing differences of opinion in 1905, White bought the elder Byron's equipment and usurped his client list. White then secured an exclusive agreement with the Schubert organization to record their New York productions. During the 1920s, the studio lacked the aesthetic panache ...

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