Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Alexander, Robert, d. 1989
	Title:	The Robert Alexander Papers
	Dates:	1962-1987
	Abstract:	Alexander was born in 1943 in New York. He was a photographer closely connected with performance art and experimental dance during the late seventies and early eighties, and worked with choreographers such as Douglass Dunn, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer. His photographs of dance and theatre performances appeared regularly in the Soho Weekly News in 1978 and 1979, and he collaborated with the dance critic and writer Sally Banes on the book: Terpsichore in Sneakers, which remains a standard text of postmodern dance. His photography thus documents an important period in the development of contemporary dance and performance art. In addition to his work on dance, Alexander was a keen observer and documenter of the city in which he spent all of his life. The collection contains hundreds of slides and prints of New York street scenes and architecture from the late sixties until just before Alexander's death in 1989. The Robert Alexander papers is an extensive collection of his photography and related materials.
	Quantity:	14 linear feet (41 boxes)
	Call Phrase:	The Robert Alexander Papers

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Historical/Biographical Note:

Robert Alexander was born in Brooklyn on the 21st of November 1943. He spent most of his early life there, eventually working as a freelance photographer and photographer's assistant from various addresses, including Remsen Street in the downtown area of the city. He studied Art History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 to 1965 (but did not graduate) and did brief stints at the New School for Social Research (film production) and at the School of Visual Arts (16mm film editing). By the early seventies, Alexander had moved to Manhattan and had begun his work as a freelance photographer, though he continued to assist other photographers for several years. He also worked as a commercial photographer, doing catalogues and advertising for jewelry and clothing manufacturers.

Alexander's early portfolio work is at first tentatively formalist, but he quickly develops a strongly realist approach to subjects. He moves from photographing everyday, domestic objects to photographing people and street scenes. Though he retained his interest in still life photography all through his photographic career, sometimes photographing single objects in obsessive detail, it is as an observer of people in motion and interacting with a changing environment that Alexander is at his best. His photographs of New York streets, people, and architecture have that combination of intense engagement with and detachment from subjects that characterizes the work of many renowned documenters of modern city life. Alexander's slides and prints of New York City during the seventies and eighties are a lively record of a city undergoing intense change and they reveal a fascination both with the ordinariness of city life and the grandeur and strangeness of the city itself. He undertook several personal projects, photographing New York cabs and shop mannequins, and, over several years, scenes of the street from his apartment on 29th street. He also documented the building of the West Side Highway and took hundreds of slides of the Manhattan skyline.

Alexander's first resumes indicate that by the early seventies he had begun to think of himself as specializing in performance photography. His work had started to appear in various publications associated with the arts and he had collaborated with Sally Banes on the book: Terpsichore in Sneakers. His black and white photographs are given a special place in the book, accompanying individual chapters and also comprising a separate section at the end of the text. The spare, often stark simplicity of the photography suggests that Alexander had understood the tension between the singularity of the dancer's body and its sometimes violent, sometimes playful interaction with other bodies and objects. The choreographers and dancers he photographed for the book and for other publications had inherited a strong dance vocabulary from the avant-garde performers and choreographers of the fifties and sixties, but they were constantly seeking to break free of some of the constraints imposed upon modern dance by that vocabulary. These attempts to redefine movement and dance are perhaps best exemplified by the development of Contact Improvisation, with its mixture of randomness, spontaneity, and carefully focused give and take between dancers. Alexander frequently photographed Steve Paxton, who was instrumental in the development of this form, as well as the other choreographers and dancers of the collaborative group: Grand Union. His photographs of them are of performers who seem at times restrained and poised and at times utterly abandoned to movement and to contact with other dancers. His strongest street photographs share this quality with his dance pictures. He seems drawn to the vulnerability of bodies in a dynamic environment, and his work conveys something of the dancer's desire both to control spaces and to be abandoned to them.

While Alexander did not achieve the broad recognition of some of his contemporaries such as Peter Moore, his work is an important contribution to the documentation of experimental dance and performance of the seventies and eighties. He photographed most of the major experimental choreographers, dancers, and performers of the period, including Stuart Sherman, Kenneth King, Simone Forti, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, Laura Foreman, Carter Frank, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Douglass Dunn, Rudy Perez, Meredith Monk, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and many others. He also photographed musicians and actors, such as the then emerging Tom Waits and the already famous Peter Ustinov.

By the mid-eighties Alexander was doing less and less dance photography and more photography of the city. The collection includes thousands of slides of Manhattan dating from this period, many of which reveal Alexander's interest in ordinary street scenes and people. Most, however, are of the city's skyline and monolithic architecture, and testify to the photographer's obsession with the city that he lived in all of his life and which he left only briefly as a young man. Alexander died on the 8th of October, 1989.

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Scope and Content Note

The Robert Alexander Papers are a part of the Downtown Collection at the Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing nearly 200,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel.

The Robert Alexander Papers comprise mainly photographs, contact sheets and negatives, and slides. There is one box of personal papers, correspondence, and memorabilia, and two boxes containing other media, such as 16mm and Super 8 films and audio cassettes. The negatives and contact sheets have been kept in chronological order, as Alexander had organized them, and the prints and slides have been arranged alphabetically. There are three boxes of unprocessed material at the end of the collection.

SERIES DESCRIPTION

SERIES I: Prints

Subseries A: Dance and Performance Prints

This subseries contains 4 boxes, ordered alphabetically, of dance and performance-related photographs. Box 4 is oversize.

Subseries B: Prints for the Soho Weekly News.

This is a series of prints, arranged chronologically, of work done for the Soho Weekly News. Copies of the tearsheets from the newspaper can be found in Series IV, box 38, folder 38.

Subseries C: Celebrity and other portraits; Peter Moore photographs; chimpanzee photographs for the NYU Physician; Kodak commemorative photographs.

Amongst the photographs in this subseries are portraits of Alvin Ailey, Tom Waits, Lucinda Childs, Peter Ustinov, Peter Boyle, Laura Foreman, Ann Beckerman, and Robert Alexander. The subseries also contains several poignant photographs of laboratory chimpanzees taken for an article in the NYU Physician.

Subseries D: Portfolios and other personal work.

Boxes 7 through 11 contain prints from Alexander's portfolios. These photographs were not clearly dated by the photographer. Since the subject matter is varied and the dates uncertain the prints have been boxed in no particular order. Wherever possible however, prints that were grouped together by the photographer have been kept together in the collection. Box 11 contains oversize prints.

SERIES II: Slides

Some of the slides in the collection were arranged in sleeves by the photographer, but thousands were in labeled and unlabelled slide boxes. It was extremely difficult to detect any order in the slides and so they have been arranged alphabetically and thematically. The embossed dates on the slides seem more or less accurate but cannot be relied upon (since some slides may have been processed some time after shoots).

Subseries A: Dance and Performance.

Boxes 12 through18 are arranged alphabetically. Of special interest are several sheets of slides, in order, of Stuart Sherman's Eleventh Spectacle (Box 16).

Subseries B: Events

Slides in this subseries are arranged roughly chronologically, though dates are uncertain. Of special interest are slides of the John Lennon observance in Central Park, and those of Thelonius Monk's funeral.

Subseries C: Portraits

The box of portraits in this subseries includes shots of Alvin Ailey, Philippe Petite, Peter Ustinov, and Tom Waits.

Subseries D: Projects: 1973 - 1987, and other personal work.

These slides are arranged thematically and chronologically where possible. They comprise several ongoing projects, most of which document some aspect of life in Manhattan. Of special interest are the slides of the Alex Katz mural in the Attorney General's office. Box 25 appears to be a selection made by Alexander and the slides have been kept in the order in which he arranged them.

Subseries E: City people, 1973 - 1983

This is one box of slides, arranged more or less chronologically.

Subseries F: City scenes, 1980 - 1986

The slides span a six year period and have been arranged more or less chronologically.

Subseries G: Nature

Boxes 31 through 33 are arranged roughly chronologically.

Subseries H: Commercial work

This is one box of slides of work done for jewelry and footwear catalogues. It represents a fraction of Alexander's commercial work in this field. The remainder have been roughly processed and boxed separately.

SERIES III: Negatives and contact sheets

Alexander organized his negatives and contact sheets chronologically. This arrangement has been retained as far as possible.

SERIES IV: Printed and other materials

Subseries A: Printed material, memorabilia, correspondence, ephemera

This subseries comprises two boxes of material, one of which is oversize (box 39).

Subseries B: Other media

This subseries includes a 16mm print of Yvonne Rainer's dance "Trio A". [Research copies may not be available for these materials yet. Check with the Fales archivist.]

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Arrangement
	Folders are generally arranged alphabetically by subject but sometimes chronologically within each series.
	The files are grouped into 4 series.

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Related Material at the Fales Library and Special Collections

The Judson Memorial Church Archive

Wendy Perron's "Concepts in Performance," In The Soho Weekly News (1976-78).

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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.

Use Restrictions

Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. For more information, contact
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu

URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm

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Access Points
	Subject Names:
		Ailey, Alvin
		Alexander, Robert, d. 1989
		Antin, Eleanor
		Atwood, Geri
		Banes, Sally
		Beardsley, Bettany
		Beckerman, Ann
		Boyle, Peter, 1933-
		Brown, Trisha, 1936-
		Childs, Lucinda
		Chong, Ping
		Chuma, Yoshiko
		Cumming, Ann
		Cummings, Blondell
		DeGroat, Andy
		Dunas, William
		Dunn, Douglas, 1942-
		Foreman, Laura
		Forti, Simone
		Frank, Carter
		Gardner, Barbara
		Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-
		Glass, Philip
		Goldblum, Jeff, 1952-
		Gordh, Bill
		Gordon, David, 1936-
		Halprin, Anna
		Hay, Deborah
		Jacobowitz, Diane
		Jaroslow, Risa
		Joyce, Donald
		Kast, Maggie
		Katz, Alex
		Kaye, Pooh
		King, Kenneth, 1948-
		Kroesen, Jill
		Kushner, Robert, 1949-
		Landry, Richard
		Lord, Carolyn
		Malpede, John
		McLean, Bruce
		Monk, Meredith
		Overlie, Mary
		Paxton, Steve
		Perez, Rudy
		Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-
		Reitz, Dana
		Roberts, Erik
		Rudner, Sara
		Selmier, Dean
		Setterfield, Valda
		Sherman, Stuart
		Smith, Nancy Stark
		Tanaka, Min
		Taylor, Paul
		Ustinov, Peter
		Van Riper, Peter
		Waits, Tom, 1949-
		We, Ellen
		Whitman, Sylvia
		Woodberry, Dave
		Zaloom, Paul
	Subject Organizations:
		Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
		Big Apple Circus
		Grand Union (Performance group)
		Kipper Kids (Group of artists)
		No Theatre (Theater group)
		Rockettes (Dance company)
		Squat Theatre (Theater group)
	Subject Topics:
		Dance photography.
		Dance--Pictorial works.
		Dancers--Portraits.
		Landscape photography.
		Photography, Artistic.
		Portrait photography.
	Subject Places:
		New York (State)--New York.
	Document Types:
		Acetate film -- 16mm.
		Acetate film -- 8mm -- Super 8.
		Audiocassettes.
		Clippings.
		Correspondence.
		Ephemera
		Financial records.
		Photographs.
		Record covers.
		Tear sheets.

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Administrative Information

Provenance

The Robert Alexander Papers were bequeathed to the Fales Library by the estate of Ann Beckerman, Robert Alexander's second wife. The transfer of materials, which included photographic prints, contact sheets and negatives, several boxes of slides, as well as personal papers and memorabilia, took place in January 2001 with the assistance of Dan Beckerman, Ann Beckerman's brother and the executor of her estate.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); The Robert Alexander Papers; MSS 114; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections , New York University Libraries.

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Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

Series I: Prints
Subseries A: Dance prints
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	Trisha Brown: Figure Eight, rehearsal, 1973 (2 prints) Primary Accumulations, rehearsal, 1973 (1 print) Water Motor, performance, 1979 (7 prints) Interview portrait, Jan 1974 (1 print)	1973-1979
1	2	Lucinda Childs: Melody Excerpt, rehearsal, 1978 (4 prints) Katema, performance, 1978 (2 prints) Dance, rehearsal, 1979 (2 prints)	1978-1979
1	3	Yoshiko Chuma, 9 Mar 1980 (2 prints)	1980
1	4	Douglas Dunn: 101, performance exhibition, 1974 (4 prints) Lazy Madge, performance, 1976 (4 prints) Coquina, performance, 1979 (2 prints)	1974-1979
1	5	Simone Forti at Fordham, Apr 1976 (10 prints)	1976
1	6	Simone Forti at St Marks, May 1976 (6 prints)	1976
1	7	Simone Forti and Peter Van Riper at the Museum of Modern Art, Aug 1978 (11 prints)	1978
1	8	Carter Frank (with Maggie Kast et al), May 1974 (2 prints)	1974
1	9	David Gordon: Not necessarily Recognizable Objectives, performance, 1978 (5 prints) What Happened, performance,1978 (2 prints) Times Four, performance with Valda Setterfield, 1976 (3 prints) David Gordon/Pick Up Co., performance, Apr 1978 (2 prints)	1978
1	10	Bill Gordh and John Malpede, Dead Dog and Lonely Horse, Nov 1978	1978
1	11	Grand Union: Improvisatory performance, 1974 (8 prints) Rehearsal, June 1975 (3 prints) Performance at La Mama, Apr 1976 (2 prints)	1974-1976
1	12	Deborah Hay: Rehearsal, Feb 1979 (1 print) Solo performance, Feb 1979 (1 print) The Grand Dance, workshop, 1979 (2 prints)	1979
1	13	Diane Jacobowitz, performance, May/June 1980 (2 prints)	1980
1	14	Risa Jaroslow, 21 Oct 1978 (1 print)	1978
1	15	Pooh Kaye, Blur, Mar 1982 (1 print) (see also slides)	1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	Kenneth King: With Carter Frank, performance, 8 Dec 1978 (6 prints) Performance, 8 Dec 1978 (1 print) Word Raid, performance at St Marks benefit, 1 Jan 1979 (1 print)	1978-1979
2	2	Meredith Monk: Education of the Girlchild, performance, 1973 (5 prints) Education of the Girlchild, performance, 1979 (2 prints)	1973-1979
2	3	Meredith Monk and Ping Chong, Paris, performance, 1974 (8 prints)	1974
2	4	Multi-gravitational Experimental Group: Performance, Dec 1973 (21 prints) Performance, May 1974 (2 prints)	1973-1974
2	5	Steve Paxton: Backwater: Twosome, performance, 1978 (3 prints) With Nancy Stark-Smith, Contact Improvisation, performance, 1978 (1 print) Contact Improvisation, performance, 1978 (2 prints)	1978
2	6	Steve Paxton with Grand Union, 1973 (1 print) - photograph by Gwen Thomas	1973
2	7	Rudy Perez, rehearsal and performance, Dec 1973 (15 prints)	1973
2	8	Yvonne Rainer, New Version of Convalescent Dance, performance, 1979 (2 prints)	1979
2	9	Paul Taylor, Arden Court, Apr 1982 (1 print) (see slides)	1982
2	10	Terpsichore in Sneakers: Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, performance, 1978 (6 prints)	1978
2	11	Terpsichore in Sneakers: Deborah Hay, The Grand Dance, 1979 Lucinda Childs, Katema, 1978 Lucinda Childs, Melody Excerpt, 1978 Meredith Monk and Ping Chong, Paris, 1974 Meredith Monk, Education of the Girlchild, 1973 Kenneth King, Wor(l)d (T)rade, 1978 Kenneth King, RadeoA.C.tiv(ID)ty, 1978 Douglas Dunn, Coquina, 1979 Douglas Dunn, 101, 1974 Douglas Dunn, improv., 1974 Grand Union, improv., 1974	1973-1979
2	12	Terpsichore in Sneakers: Simone Forti, Big Room, 1976 Grand Union, Improvisation, 1974 Simone Forti, Fountain Huddle, 1978 Steve Paxton, Backwater: Twosome, 1978 Trisha Brown, Water Motor, 1979 David Gordon, Not Necessarily Recognizable Objectives, 1978 Deborah Hay, solo, 1979 Lucinda Childs, Dance, rehearsal, 1979 Meredith Monk, Education of the Girlchild, 1979 Kenneth King, Word Raid, 1978 Douglas Dunn, Lazy Madge, 1976	1974-1979
2	13	Terpsichore in Sneakers: Simone Forti, Phoenix, 1978 Simone Forti and Peter Van Riper, Big Room, 1979 Yvonne Rainer, New Version of Convalescent Dance, 1979 Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark-Smith, 1978 Trisha Brown, Primary Accumulation, 1973 Trisha Brown, Water Motor, 1979 David Gordon, Times Four, 1976 David Gordon, What Happened, 1978 David Gordon, Not Necessarily Recognizable Objectives, 1978 Deborah Hay, solo, 1979	1973-1979
2	14	Ellen Webb, dance relaxation techniques, Mar 1979 (1 print)	1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	1	Bettany Beardsley	undated
3	2	Peter Boyle	undated
3	3	Trisha Brown	undated
3	4	Trisha Brown	undated
3	5	Trisha Brown	undated
3	6	Trisha Brown	undated
3	7	Trisha Brown	undated
3	8	Trisha Brown	undated
3	9	Lucinda Childs	undated
3	10	Lucinda Childs	undated
3	11	Lucinda Childs	undated
3	12	Lucinda Childs	undated
3	13	Yoshiko Chuma	undated
3	14	Andy DeGroat, Philip Glass, Dickie Landry	undated
3	15	Andy DeGroat, Philip Glass, Dickie Landry	undated
3	16	Andy DeGroat, Philip Glass, Dickie Landry	undated
3	17	Philip Glass	undated
3	18	Dickie Landry, Philip Glass	undated
3	19	Dickie Landry	undated
3	20	Andy DeGroat and dancers	undated
3	21	Shelley and Denman at Ear Inn	undated
3	22	Shelley and Denman	undated
3	23	Denman	undated
3	24	Shelley and Denman	undated
3	25	Bill Dunas dancer	undated
3	26	Bill Dunas dancer	undated
3	27	Bill Dunas dancer	undated
3	28	Doug Dunn and Dave Woodberry	undated
3	29	Doug Dunn and Dave Woodberry	undated
3	30	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	31	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	32	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	33	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	34	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	35	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	36	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	37	Doug Dunn and Sara Rudner	undated
3	38	Simone Forti and Peter Van Riper	undated
3	39	Peter Van Riper	undated
3	40	Peter Van Riper	undated
3	41	Peter Van Riper	undated
3	42	Carter Frank	undated
3	43	Carter Frank, Maggie Kast, et al	undated
3	44	Carter Frank, Maggie Kast, et al	undated
3	45	Friday 13th at MoMA	undated
3	46	Friday 13th at MoMA	undated
3	47	Friday 13th at MoMA	undated
3	48	Friday 13th at MoMA	undated
3	49	Barbara Gardner	undated
3	50	Barbara Gardner	undated
3	51	Barbara Gardner	undated
3	52	Barbara Gardner	undated
3	53	Allen Ginsberg	undated
3	54	St Marks Benefit	undated
3	55	Jeff Goldblum	undated
3	56	Jeff Goldblum	undated
3	57	Jeff Goldblum	undated
3	58	David Gordon and Valda Setterfield	undated
3	59	David Gordon and Valda Setterfield	undated
3	60	Grand Union	undated
3	61	Grand Union	undated
3	62	Grand Union	undated
3	63	Grand Union	undated
3	64	Grand Union	undated
3	65	Grand Union	undated
3	66	Grand Union	undated
3	67	Grand Union	undated
3	68	Grand Union	undated
3	69	Grand Union	undated
3	70	Grand Union	undated
3	71	Grand Union	undated
3	72	Grand Union	undated
3	73	Grand Union	undated
3	74	Anna Halprin	undated
3	75	Diane Jacobowitz dancer	undated
3	76	Diane Jacobowitz dancer	undated
3	77	Diane Jacobowitz	undated
3	78	Diane Jacobowitz	undated
3	79	Diane Jacobowitz	undated
3	80	Diane Jacobowitz et al	undated
3	81	Diane Jacobowitz et al	undated
3	82	Diane Jacobowitz dancer	undated
3	83	Diane Jacobowitz et al	undated
3	84	Diane Jacobowitz dancer	undated
3	85	Alex Katz mural	undated
3	86	Alex Katz mural	undated
3	87	Alex Katz mural	undated
3	88	Pooh Kaye et al	undated
3	89	Pooh Kaye et al	undated
3	90	Kenneth King	undated
3	91	Kipper Kids	undated
3	92	Kipper Kids	undated
3	93	Robert Kushner's New York Hat Line	undated
3	94	Robert Kushner's New York Hat Line	undated
3	95	Robert Kushner	undated
3	96	Robert Kushner	undated
3	97	Carolyn Lord	undated
3	98	Carolyn Lord	undated
3	99	Bruce McLean	undated
3	100	Meredith Monk	undated
3	101	Meredith Monk	undated
3	102	Meredith Monk	undated
3	104	Multigravitational Experimental Group	undated
3	105	Steve Paxton	undated
3	106	Steve Paxton	undated
3	107	Rudy Perez	undated
3	108	Rudy Perez	undated
3	109	Rudy Perez et al	undated
3	110	Le Plan K	undated
3	111	Le Plan K	undated
3	112	Dana Reitz	undated
3	113	Dana Reitz et al	undated
3	114	Erik Roberts	undated
3	115	Erik Roberts	undated
3	116	Dean Selmier	undated
3	117	Dean Selmier	undated
3	118	Squat Theater	undated
3	119	Sylvia Whitman	undated
Oversize - Subseries A
Scope and Content: Prints mounted for P.S. 1 exhibition; Alternative Gestures, Dec 1978 - Jan 1979 (oversize)
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	1	Trisha Brown, Water Motor, performance, 1979	1979
4	2	Trisha Brown, Water Motor, performance, 1979	1979
4	3	Bill Dunas, 30 Sep 1978	1978
4	4	Douglas Dunn, Lazy Madge, performance, 1976 (2)	1976
4	5	Simone Forti, Fountain Huddle, performance, 1978	1978
4	6	Simone Forti, 30 Sep 1978	1978
4	7	David Gordon/Pick Up Co., Not Necessarily Recognizable Objectives, performance, 1978 (2)	1978
4	8	David Gordon and Valda Setterfield, Times Four, performance 1976	1976
4	9	Deborah Hay, solo performance, 1979	1979
4	10	Risa Jaroslow, 21 Oct 1978 (2)	1978
4	11	Kenneth King and Carter Frank, RadeoA.C.tiv(id)ty, performance, 1978	1978
4	12	Meredith Monk and Ping Chong, Paris, performance, 1974	1974
4	13	Meredith Monk, Education of the Girlchild, performance, 1973	1973
4	14	Steve Paxton and David Moss, Backwater: Twosome, performance, 1978	1978
Subseries B: Prints for the Soho Weekly News
Scope and Content: Box 5 (black ring binder box with sleeves)
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	1	Sylvia Whitman	undated
5	2	Anna Halprin	undated
5	3	Anna Halprin	undated
5	4	The Rockettes	undated
5	5	The Rockettes	undated
5	6	The Rockettes	undated
5	7	The Rockettes	undated
5	8	James Neu's Echo Ranch	undated
5	9	Echo Ranch	undated
5	10	Echo Ranch	undated
5	11	Echo Ranch	undated
5	12	Geri Atwood and Carter Frank	undated
5	13	Geri Atwood and Carter Frank	undated
5	14	Big Apple Circus	undated
5	15	Big Apple Circus	undated
5	16	No Theatre Company	undated
5	17	No Theatre Company	undated
5	18	Blondell Cummings	undated
5	19	Blondell Cummings	undated
5	20	Blondell Cummings	undated
5	21	Simone Forti	undated
5	22	Simone Forti	undated
5	23	Simone Forti	undated
5	24	Big Apple Circus	undated
5	25	Big Apple Circus	undated
5	26	Big Apple Circus	undated
5	27	Kenneth King	undated
5	28	Kenneth King	undated
5	29	Kenneth King	undated
5	30	Kenneth King	undated
5	31	Kenneth King	undated
5	32	Stuart Sherman	undated
5	33	Stuart Sherman	undated
5	34	Stuart Sherman	undated
5	35	Lucinda Childs	undated
5	36	Lucinda Childs	undated
5	37	Lucinda Childs	undated
5	38	Laura Foreman	undated
5	39	Laura Foreman	undated
5	40	Bill Dunas	undated
5	41	Simone Forti	undated
5	42	Simone Forti	undated
5	43	Steve Paxton	undated
5	44	David Gordon	undated
5	45	David Gordon	undated
5	46	The Hummers	undated
5	47	The Hummers	undated
5	48	The Hummers	undated
5	49	Jill Kroesen	undated
5	50	Jill Kroesen	undated
5	51	Jill Kroesen	undated
5	52	Mary Overlie et al	undated
5	53	Mary Overlie	undated
5	54	Dog'd Shots	undated
5	55	Dog'd Shots	undated
5	56	Donald Joyce	undated
5	57	Donald Joyce	undated
5	58	Donald Joyce	undated
5	59	Risa Jaroslow	undated
5	60	Whirling Dervishes	undated
5	61	Steve Paxton	undated
5	62	Steve Paxton	undated
5	63	Steve Paxton	undated
5	64	Michael and Paul Galasso	undated
5	65	San Francisco Mime Troupe	undated
5	66	Alvin Ailey	undated
5	67	Alvin Ailey	undated
5	68	Alvin Ailey	undated
5	69	Alvin Ailey	undated
5	70	Alvin Ailey	undated
5	71	Bill Gordh and John Malpede	undated
5	72	Dancing Songs	undated
5	73	Ann Cumming	undated
5	74	Ann Cumming	undated
5	75	Ann Cumming	undated
5	76	Tom Waits	undated
5	77	Maple Sugar	undated
5	78	Kenneth King	undated
5	79	Kenneth King, Carter Frank, Diane Jacobowitz	undated
5	80	Kenneth King, Carter Frank, Diane Jacobowitz	undated
5	81	Kenneth King and Carter Frank	undated
5	82	Kenneth King, Carter Frank, Diane Jacobowitz	undated
5	83	Kenneth King and Diane Jacobowitz	undated
5	84	Kenneth King, Carter Frank, Diane Jacobowitz	undated
5	85	Meredith Monk et al	undated
5	86	Eleanor Antin	undated
5	87	Paul Zaloom	undated
5	88	Paul Zaloom	undated
5	89	Peter Ustinov	undated
5	90	Peter Ustinov	undated
5	91	Yvonne Rainer	undated
5	92	Yvonne Rainer	undated
5	93	On Mount Chimborazo	undated
5	94	On Mount Chimborazo	undated
5	95	Ellen Webb	undated
5	96	Ellen Webb	undated
5	97	Ellen Webb	undated
5	98	Ellen Webb	undated
5	99	Ann Waldman	undated
Subseries C: Celebrity and other portraits
Scope and Content: Peter Moore photographs; chimpanzee photographs for the NYU Physician; Kodak commemorative photographs.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
6	1	Alvin Ailey, Nov 1978 (1 print)	1978
6	2	Gerri Atwood and Carter Frank (4 prints)	undated
6	3	Ann Beckerman (2 prints)	undated
6	4	Ann Beckerman (6 prints)	undated
6	5	Peter Boyle, Feb 1979 (3 prints)	1979
6	6	Lucinda Childs, Sep 1978 (4 prints)	1978
6	7	Bill Dunas, Sep 1978 (1 print)	1978
6	8	Laura Foreman, 22 Jan 1980 (4 prints)	1980
6	9	Simone Forti, Sep 1978 (2 prints)	1978
6	10	Sheldon Frank (2 prints)	undated
6	11	Michael and Paul Galasso, Nov 1978 (2 prints)	1978
6	12	Peter Ustinov, Mar 1979 (2 prints)	1979
6	13	Tom Waits, Nov 1978 (6 prints)	1978
6	14	Lab chimpanzees for the NYU Physician article on chimpanzees of The Gambia (5 prints)	undated
6	15	Kodak commemorative prints	undated
6	16	Peter Moore photographs (2 prints)	undated
Subseries D: Portfolios and other personal work
Scope and Content: Box 9 and 10 are black ring binder boxes
Box	Folder	Title	Date
7		9 folders containing portfolio work (mounted and unmounted prints).	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
8		15 folders containing portfolio work, polaroids, photographs of friends, self-portraits, photographs of New York City.	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
9	1	Portfolio (7 sleeves)	undated
9	2	Architectural (9 sleeves)	undated
9	3	Still life (5 sleeves)	undated
9	4	Street scenes, NYC (10 sleeves)	undated
9	5	Color polaroids - still life (3 sleeves)	undated
9	6	School children (2 sleeves)	undated
9	7	Children dancing (9 sleeves)	undated
9	8	Chimpanzees (1 sleeve)	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
10		35 sleeves of portfolio work from 1981, 1982, and 1983 (though dates are uncertain). These include self-portraits, domestic scenes, subway scenes, street scenes, portraits, still lifes.	1981-1983
Oversize - Subseries D
Box	Folder	Title	Date
11		7 folders of portfolio work	undated

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Series II: Slides
Subseries A: Dance and performance
Box	Folder	Title	Date
12	1	African dancers	undated
12	2	Geri Atwood	undated
12	3	Benefit, Dec 1980	1980
12	4	Trisha Brown	undated
12	5	Yoshiko Chuma	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
13	1	Circus	undated
13	2	Merce Cunningham	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
14	1	Edwin Denby and Yoshiko Chuma	undated
14	2	Douglas Dunn	undated
14	3	Stephanie Evanitsky (Multigravitational Experimental Group)	undated
14	4	Laura Foreman	undated
14	5	Simone Forti	undated
14	6	David Gordon	undated
14	7	Martha Graham	undated
14	8	Grand Union	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
15	1	Diane Jacobowitz	undated
15	2	Risa Jaroslow	undated
15	3	Bill T. Jones	undated
15	4	Bill T. Jones and Kenneth King	undated
15	5	Judson Church	undated
15	6	Pooh Kaye	undated
15	7	Kenneth King	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
16	1	Mime, Victoria Falls	undated
16	2	Steve Paxton	undated
16	3	Red Mole Theatre	undated
16	4	Dana Reitz	undated
16	5	Rukas [?]	undated
16	6	Shelley and Denman [?]	undated
16	7	Stuart Sherman, Eleventh Spectacle	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
17	1	Min Tanaka	undated
17	2	Paul Taylor	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
18	1	Paul Taylor	undated
18	2	Torville and Dean	undated
18	3	Whirling Dervishes	undated
18	4	Stephanie Woodard	undated
18	5	Unlabelled mixed performance	undated
Subseries B: Events
Scope and Content: (arranged roughly chronologically, though dates are uncertain)
Box	Folder	Title	Date
19	1	Willowtown street fair, 1974	1974
19	2	Halloween parade, 1980	1980
19	3	John Lennon observance, 1980	1980
19	4	Macy's Christmas, 1980	1980
19	5	Christmas party in garment district, 1980	1980
19	6	Thelonius Monk's funeral, 1982	1982
19	7	Christmas pageant, 1982	1982
19	8	Fireworks, 1983	1983
19	9	Opera in Central Park, 1983	1983
19	10	New London fireworks, 1983	1983
Subseries C: Portraits
Box	Folder	Title	Date
20	1	Robert Alexander	undated
20	2	Alvin Ailey	undated
20	3	Ann Beckerman	undated
20	4	Trisha Brown	undated
20	5	Lucinda Childs	undated
20	6	Carter Frank	undated
20	7	Sheldon Frank	undated
20	8	Philippe Petite	undated
20	9	Bucky and John Pizzarelli	undated
20	10	Erik Roberts	undated
20	11	Rob Seiga and Toby Klass	undated
20	12	Peter Ustinov	undated
20	13	Tom Waits	undated
20	14	Mixed portraits	undated
Subseries D: Projects: 1973 - 1987, and other personal work
Scope and Content: Note: Box 25: Artist's selection (apparently a portfolio selection, kept apart from the main body of slides and divided into categories by the photographer)
Box	Folder	Title	Date
21	1	Movement series	undated
21	2	Ron Edson sculptures, Wids Delacour	undated
21	3	Alex Katz mural	undated
21	4	Mannekins	undated
21	5	Cabs	undated
21	6	Health clubs	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
22		"From My Window" 30 sleeves of slides shot from Alexander's apartment window on 29th street	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
23		Still life studies, 1971 - 1987; 22 sleeves	1971-1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
24		Memorabilia; 19 sleeves	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
25	1	Unlabelled: 1 sleeve	undated
25	2	Kids mixed: 3 sleeves	undated
25	3	Views from my window: 1 sleeve	undated
25	4	Couples: 1 sleeve	undated
25	5	City: 6 sleeves	undated
25	6	Portraits: 3 sleeves	undated
25	7	Workers and industrial: 2 sleeves	undated
25	8	Commercial: 1 sleeve	undated
25	9	City, city people: 14 sleeves	undated
Subseries E: City People, 1973 - 1983 (dates uncertain)
Box	Folder	Title	Date
26		27 sleeves of candid photographs of people (mostly street scenes in New York City).	undated
Subseries F: City scenes, 1980 - 1986 (dates uncertain).
Scope and Content: Extensive documentation of New York City (mostly Manhattan) over roughly six years. Includes photographs of the city bridges, the building of the West Side Highway, the city stations, street fairs, landmark buildings, and city parks.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
27		29 sleeves: Sep 1980 - Apr 1981	1980-1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date
28		25 sleeves: May 1981 - Apr 1982	1981-1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
29		29 sleeves: May 1982 - Dec 1982	1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
30		27 sleeves: May 1983 - July 1986	1983-1986
30		12 sleeves: mixed dates	undated
Subseries G: Nature
Scope and Content: Includes slides of Maine, Long Island, Block Island, Novia Scotia, Utah, Colorado, up state New York.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
31		29 sleeves	1971-1978
Box	Folder	Title	Date
32		17 sleeves	1981-1983
Box	Folder	Title	Date
33		34 sleeves	1985-1987
Subseries H: Commercial work (jewelry and foot wear catalogues, headshots)
Box	Folder	Title	Date
34		14 sleeves	undated

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Series III: Negatives and Contact Sheets
Box	Folder	Title	Date
35	1	Hillside nature shots, 7 Mar 1966	1966
35	2	23rd Street, 15 June 1966	1966
35	3	Delancey Street, 20 June 1966	1966
35	4	Personal: Diane; honeymoon, June 1966 - June 1968	1968