New School Communications and External Affairs photographs
Other Finding Aids note
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.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.
Summary
This record group consists of photographic records created, commissioned and compiled by The New School's Communications and External Affairs office. The prints, negatives, and digital image files largely cover the 1980s through the early 2000s. Includes images of campus facilities, faculty and administrators, Parsons School of Design classes, the Parsons fashion critics awards, commencement ceremonies, and guests on Inside the Actors Studio.
Dates
- 1930-2008
Creator
- Adelman, Bob (Photographer, Person)
- Berger, Stephanie (Photographer, Person)
- Bjorg (Photographer, Person)
- Collins, Arlene (Photographer, Person)
- Druskis, Laima (Photographer, Person)
- Heleotis, Harry (Photographer, Person)
- Moore, Peter, 1932-1993 (Photographer, Person)
- New School (New York, N.Y.). Communications & External Affairs (Organization)
- Schuyler, Joseph (Photographer, Person)
- Seligman, Paul, 1924- (Photographer, Person)
- Seligson, Stanley (Photographer, Person)
- Septimus, Matthew (Photographer, Person)
- Speier, Jerry (Photographer, Person)
- Zebulon, Karen (Photographer, Person)
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).
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.
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.)
- Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall (Subject) Subject Source: Local sources
- Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries (Parsons School of Design)
- Art in universities and colleges (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College administrators -- United States. (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College buildings -- New York (State) (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College campuses (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College trustees (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Commencement ceremonies (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Contact sheets (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Fashion design -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Local sources
- Fashion shows (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- New School (New York, N.Y.)
- Parsons School of Design
- Photographs (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Professors (Occupation) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Publicity (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy
- Slides (photographs) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Universities and colleges -- Departments (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Local sources
- Vera List Courtyard (Subject) Subject Source: Local sources
- 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