The Audio Collection at VSW holds recordings of artist talks, conversations, interviews, lectures, and symposia that took place at VSW from the late 1960s to the mid 1990s.

  • Kodak Sound Recording Tape package
    Kodak 1/4" open reel audio tape. "Minor White Lecturing at GEH, 1966" (2020:0006:0202)
  • The VSW Audio Collection contains over 700 audio recordings of artist talks, conversations, interviews, lectures, and symposia that took place at this pioneering educational facility. Oral documents were made through recordings on ¼ inch open reel and cassette audiotapes. These discussions and presentations are invaluable primary resources from the history of photography, photographic education, artists’ books, and independent publishing in this country and abroad.

    Recordings include lectures with Diane Arbus, Eikoh Hosoe, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Beaumont Newhall, Martha Rosler, Minor White, and many others. Major topics include the Society for Photographic Education and conversation around VSW’s Options in Independent Publishing Symposium (1979) . The Audio Collection also holds tapes and recordings relating to “Maybe But Not Necessarily Music,” which was hosted by Bob Doyle at VSW and broadcast on 90.5 FM WBER in the early 1990s.

    Below is a small selection of digitized recordings. Listen to more audio from the archive at VSW’s Soundcloud.

    To view the entire audio collection inventory, click here.

    All programs are copyright protected. For more information please contact taranelson@vsw.org.

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    To request material or begin a search of the collections, please fill out the Collections Inquiry Form

    For further collection-related inquiries, contact Mary Lewandowski, Collections Manager (marylewandowski@vsw.org) or Tara Merenda Nelson, Curator (taranelson@vsw.org)

     

  • Selections from the Audio Collection