New School Communications and External Affairs photographs
Record Group
Identifier: NS-03-01-09
Summary
This record group consists of photographic records created, commissioned and compiled by The New School's Communications and External Affairs office. The prints, transparencies, negatives and digital image files comprising this record group predominantly cover the 1980s through the early 2000s, although earlier images may date from the 1960s and 1970s. Photographic documentation includes campus facilities, portraits of faculty and administrators, Parsons School of Design classes and programs, the annual Parsons fashion critics benefits award show, commencement ceremonies, and guests on the television program, Inside the Actors Studio.
Dates
- 1930-2008
Creator
- Adelman, Bob (Photographer, Person)
- Moore, Peter, 1932-1993 (Photographer, Person)
- New School (New York, N.Y.). Communications & External Affairs (Organization)
- Seligman, Paul (Photographer, Person)
- Seligson, Stanley (Photographer, Person)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from The New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Historical Note
Communications and External Affairs was an administrative unit of The New School responsible for public relations and marketing functions across the university. The unit was renamed Marketing and Communication in 20xx. Prior to CEA, the unit was the New School Communications Office and the New School Publicity Office. Individual divisions of the university had their own publicity offices into the 1980s, with legendary art director and Communication Design faculty member Cipe Pineles serving as director of publication design for Parsons School of Design in the early 1980s.
Extent
9.6 Linear Feet (10 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Content of Collection
This record group is comprised of analog and digital image files amassed by Communications and External Affairs (CEA), one of The New School's largest administrative units. Images in this series may take the form of prints, contact sheets, transparencies, negatives, and digital image files stored on optical disk. Many of the prints and contact sheets bear editorial markings, providing evidence of use in course catalogs and other promotional materials, press kits, and other marketing and publicity products created by this office.
Although earlier materials are present, the bulk of the documentation begins in the late 1960s and proceeds up to the early 2000s. It is possible that the documentation ends at this point due to changes in image storage technologies, with Marketing and Communications staff storing born-digital images on computer networks and databases, rather than in physical filing cabinets, which is how the files comprising this record group were stored prior to transfer to their transfer to the Archives.
Photographers represented include, in roughly chronological order: Gin Briggs (1960s), Peter Moore (late 1960s-1970s), Paul Seligman (1970s), Stanley Seligson (1970s-1980s), Bob Adelman (late 1970s-1980s), Björg (1980s-1990s), Joseph Schuyler (1980s-1990s), Jerry Speier (1980s-1990s), Karen Zebulon (1980s), Jerry Bauer (1990s), Arlene Collins (1990s), Brooke Hunyady (1990s), Harry Heleotis (1990s-2000s), and Stephanie Berger (2000s).
Although earlier materials are present, the bulk of the documentation begins in the late 1960s and proceeds up to the early 2000s. It is possible that the documentation ends at this point due to changes in image storage technologies, with Marketing and Communications staff storing born-digital images on computer networks and databases, rather than in physical filing cabinets, which is how the files comprising this record group were stored prior to transfer to their transfer to the Archives.
Photographers represented include, in roughly chronological order: Gin Briggs (1960s), Peter Moore (late 1960s-1970s), Paul Seligman (1970s), Stanley Seligson (1970s-1980s), Bob Adelman (late 1970s-1980s), Björg (1980s-1990s), Joseph Schuyler (1980s-1990s), Jerry Speier (1980s-1990s), Karen Zebulon (1980s), Jerry Bauer (1990s), Arlene Collins (1990s), Brooke Hunyady (1990s), Harry Heleotis (1990s-2000s), and Stephanie Berger (2000s).
Organization and Arrangement
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Other Finding Aids note
For selected item-level description and images from the New School Communications and External Affairs photographs, see The New School Archives Digital Collections at https://digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/NS030109.
Descriptive Status
No publicly accessible container list or inventory is available at this time. Please contact The New School Archives if you are interested in consulting this collection.
Custodial History
These image files were stored in the offices of Communications and External Affairs, in some cases for many decades. As such, designers and communications officers likely employed them at different times for different purposes. Care should be taken in interpreting inscriptions. Processing archivists made efforts to file mis-filed and unlabeled images in appropriate locations.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The first accession consisting of two binders of 35 mm slides was transferred in 2012 from the Special Projects Media Associate of what was then Communications and External Affairs. These primarily consisted of slides documenting New for Jazz and Contemporary Music catalog cover artwork, buildings and campus imagery, and artwork. In 2016, the same office transferred a much larger accession of image assets to The New School Archives, consisting of multiple slide binders, prints, negatives, and digital image files stored on optical disk.
Processing Information
Formerly series titled, Special Projects Office transfers (2012.NC.03 and 2016.NS.08)
- Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
- College buildings -- New York (State)
- College campuses
- Commencement ceremonies
- Contact sheets
- Fashion shows
- New School (New York, N.Y.)
- Parsons School of Design
- Photographs
- Publicity
- Slides (photographs)
- Universities and colleges -- Departments
- Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York
- Title
- Guide to the New School Communications and External Affairs photographs
- Status
- In Process
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections staff
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin