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Karl Bissinger (1914-2008) was an American photographer, restaurateur, and peace activist whose fashion, portrait, and travel assignments for several post-World War II magazines captured the style and avant-garde spirit of that period.

In the late 1940s, Bissinger was closely associated with New York's "New Bohemians" of fashion, design, theater, film, and literature through his photographic work as well as through his partnership in the famed Café Nicholson on East 58th Street where the glitterati gathered. Bissinger was a longtime resident of Westbeth Artists' Housing, a nonprofit providing affordable living and creative work space located in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Bissinger was also a committed pacifist during World War II. In the 1950s through the 1960s, he became involved with a number of peace organizations, most notably the War Resisters League, advocating nuclear disarmament and later working full-time as a draft counselor.

Karl Bissinger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914, a descendant of Karl Frederick Bissinger, who immigrated to America in 1845 and established Bissinger's, the famed candy shop and chocolatier. In high school, Bissinger studied painting at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He then moved to New York City to continue his artistic studies, joining the Art Students League in the late 1930s.

While attempting to establish a career as a painter, Bissinger worked as a set decorator and prop stylist at Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue. He eventually took a job as a stylist for Condé Nast, where he worked with many of the leading fashion photographers of the time, including John Rawlings, George Hoyningen-Huene, Cecil Beaton, Louise Dahl Wolfe, and Irving Penn. During a summer gathering at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, Richard Avedon encouraged Bissinger's interest in photography, lending him a camera and posing for him, as did his wife, Doe Avedon. Another of Bissinger's friends who posed for him was James Baldwin, who was just beginning his writing career. Impressed by Bissinger's work, Avedon sent him to Lillian Bassman, the noted fashion photographer and art director of

Junior Bazaar, who gave Bissinger his first professional assignment.

In 1948, Bissinger partnered with Johnny Nicholson, along with chef and later noted chronicler of Southern foods Edna Lewis, to open Café Nicholson on the Upper East Side. Café Nicholson became a favorite gathering place for the post-war Bohemians—artists, actors, writers, and photographers—as well as a frequent setting for Bissinger's portrait photography. Also in the late 1940s, Bissinger met Richard Hanley, a fashion illustrator and fabric designer, who became his life companion until Hanley's death in 1990 at age sixty-four.

During the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Bissinger worked on assignments for

Junior Bazaar, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Theatre Arts, and Town & Country. He was appointed staff photographer at Flair, the short-lived, visually-innovative magazine published and edited by Fleur Cowles between 1950 and 1951. Bissinger not only supplied photographic portraits to these magazines, but also traveled extensively on assignment and contributed photographic essays on the exotic locales he visited, including Morocco, Sicily, Haiti, and Spain.

Bissinger began to participate in political and anti-nuclear demonstrations in the late 1950s, and in 1960, after his first arrest, he met and became friends with Judith Molina and Julian Beck, founders of the Living Theatre. In the early 1960s, he spent time traveling in Europe with the Living Theatre as its official photographer. Bissinger also served as staff photographer for Susan Sherman's radical magazine,

Ikon, during its brief run (1967-1968).

As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Bissinger worked with antiwar and draft counseling groups in The Living Theatre and the Greenwich Village Peace Center. He received training from the American Friends Service Committee as a draft counselor and then joined the staff of the War Resisters League (WRL), where he worked and, after his official retirement, volunteered for the rest of his life. With the exception of his work for The Living Theatre and some film productions, Bissinger's photography shifted entirely from fashion, travel, and portraiture to documentary photography of demonstrations and activists and projects such as the WRL peace calendars.

Late in his life, Bissinger experienced a resurgence of interest in his early photographic work. In 2001, a series of photographs of Morocco taken by Bissinger in 1949 was featured in Elias Canetti's

The Voices of Marrakesh, published by San Francisco-based Arion Press. The Luminous Years, a collection of Bissinger's photographic portraits from the late 1940s and 1950s, appeared in 2003. Bissinger died on November 19, 2008, at the age of 94.

Michael Maronna, "Work As Though You Had Hope: An Interview with Karl Bissinger," in The War Resisters League 2005 Annual Dinner and Presentation of the 40th Peace Award, June 10, 2005. p. 10-15.Shawn O'Sullivan, "Karl Bissinger," B&W, June 2004: 94-99.Wendy Shwartz, "Karl Bissinger: A Retrospective," War Resisters League. http://www.warresisters.org/node/636 (accessed May 18, 2010).William Grimes, "Karl Bissinger, Portraitist, Dies at 94," New York Times, November 25, 2004. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/arts/design/25bissinger.html?ref=arts (accessed August 26, 2010).

The papers of American photojournalist, restaurateur, and peace activist Karl Bissinger (1914-2008) encompass nearly seventy years of professional activity. This collection not only provides abundant documentation of Bissinger's careers in photography and social activism, but also offers rich visual resources for the history of photography in post-World War II America.

The collection comprises 18 linear feet and oversize material that includes negatives, color transparencies, contact sheets, photographs, slides, correspondence, diaries, journals, notes, sketches, paintings, manuscripts, published and unpublished books, magazines, tear sheets, government records, pamphlets, posters, and other ephemera from 1935 to 2008. The collection is arranged into five series: I. Personal papers; II. War Resisters League and peace activities; III. Publications; IV. Photographic work; and V. Book projects.

Series I. Personal papers, contains personal notebooks, journals, correspondence, artwork, media, and personal effects created and/or collected by Karl Bissinger. The series is arranged into three subseries. Subseries I.A. consists of notebooks kept by Karl Bissinger and his life partner, Richard Hanley. The notebooks contain a wide range of material such as itineraries for trips; financial notes and bills; recipes, contact information; lists of clothing; and drawings for home decorations or room arrangements. Particularly significant is Bissinger's notebook which served as a journal for his 1968 trip to Cuba. In it, he mentioned travel companions Jerome Rothenberg, George Cohen, George Hitchcock, Susan Sontag, and Bruce Kendrick, and recorded contact information for people he met. Bissinger also described the communities and farms the group toured, recorded his thoughts on socialism, and mentioned meeting Fidel Castro.

Subseries I.B. includes letters from Bissinger's son, David Fechheimer; from literary figures whom Bissinger photographed such as Paul Bowles and Diane di Prima; and from friends. Correspondence pertaining to Bissinger's activism with the War Resisters League and his efforts toward disarmament is also included.

Subseries I.C. consists of personal documents such as passports, family information, and personal effects kept by Bissinger; artwork; and media.

Series II. War Resisters League and peace activities, documents Bissinger's work on behalf of world peace, nuclear disarmament, and related social concerns. Subseries II.A. contains correspondence, publications, and publicity related to the War Resisters League (WRL), as well as the WRL's series of Peace Calendars, some of which Bissinger provided photographs. Subseries II.B. consists of correspondence and documents related to files the FBI maintained on Bissinger, obtained the Freedom of Information Act inquiries. Subseries II.C. includes publications from other peace organizations, such as the New York Workshop in Nonviolence. Subseries II.D. documents the friendship and collaborative efforts of Bissinger and Grace Paley as fellow activists in the anti-war and peace movements in New York City.

Series III. comprises publications that contain Bissinger's photographs; publications relating to Bissinger's interest in theater; and publications relating to Bissinger and his friends and associates. Subseries III.A. consists of publications that contain Bissinger photographs, including two rare issues of

Junior Bazaar, several issues of Flair, and the complete first run of Ikon, edited by Susan Sherman. It also includes newspaper articles, magazine articles, tear sheets, galley proofs, and photocopies from a variety of publications that used Bissinger photographs, such as the book jacket photograph from A Little Original Sin, Millicent Dillon's biography of Jane Bowles.

Subseries III.B. comprises publications by, about, or related to Bissinger. Among these are several published interviews of Bissinger, including one conducted by George Plimpton about Bissinger's friendship with Truman Capote, and Bissinger's article about his recently-deceased friend, Saul Gottlieb, that appeared in

The Village Voice.

Subseries III.C. reflects Bissinger's lifelong interest in theater, particularly experimental theater. He kept many playbills and other theater programs, but was especially interested in The Living Theatre, Open Theatre, and Bread and Puppet Theatre.

Subseries III.D. includes a variety of publications and articles, including articles by or about Bissinger's friends, such as Edna Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Helen Morgan, Ken Nordine, Paul Bowles, and Reverend Al Carmines.

Series IV. Photographic work, comprises the major portion of the Karl Bissinger papers. Bissinger's professional photography career was split into two distinct phases. His early career was spent working on assignment for

Junior Bazaar, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Theater Arts, and Town & Country, and serving as staff photographer at Flair for its entire run (1950-1951). In the 1960s, his focus shifted to photographing experimental theater and political demonstrations and marches and serving as staff photographer for the brief run of Ikon magazine (1967-1968).

Subseries IV.A. Portraits, is arranged alphabetically by individual, and comprises photographic portraits that appeared in a variety of publications. Included among the hundreds of individuals who were photographed by Bissinger were actresses and actors; directors and producers; writers and playwrights; poets; artists; dancers and choreographers; singers and entertainers; musicians and composers; designers; and avant-garde figures difficult to categorize, such as model and Beat muse Sheri Martinelli and Andy Warhol performer Allen Midgette.

Subseries IV.B. comprises Bissinger's photography assignments, which included fashion shoots, travel essays, and advertising work for several magazines.

Subseries IV.C. Performance, features Bissinger's theater, dance, and film photographs. Bissinger was also cinematographer of the 1964 Jonas Mekas film

The Double Barrelled Detective Story, and his photographic record of the entire seven-week shoot is included in this subseries.

Subseries IV.D. includes photographs Bissinger took at demonstrations, marches, conferences, rallies, and at the War Resisters League offices. Included in this subseries are photographs of Bissinger’s trip to Cuba in 1968-1969 with Susan Sherman, Susan Sontag, Jerome Rothenberg, and others, during which he photographed Fidel Castro giving a speech. The diary Bissinger kept during this trip can be found in Series I.A.

Subseries IV.E. represents Bissinger's participation in experimental therapeutic photography instruction at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children, during which he photographed all aspects of the students' activities at the school. He also photographed children at other Manhattan schools for The Urban League and other organizations in New York.

Subseries IV.F. includes Bissinger's personal photographs, ranging from pictures of family and friends to numerous photographs of trips, including summer rentals on Long Island and in New England, sailing trips along the Eastern seaboard, and trips abroad to Brazil, Italy, Ireland, France, and England. Included in this subseries are numerous slides from Bissinger's travels.

Subseries IV.G. contains a variety of photographs arranged by general category; it is unclear whether Bissinger photographed these for professional or personal use. Included among these photographs are those taken by Bissinger during his 1966 visit to Millbrook Estate during Timothy Leary's occupation of the house, located in upstate New York.

Series V. Book projects, comprises realized and proposed projects featuring Bissinger’s photographs and includes the various materials related to each title. Subseries V.A.

The Voices of Marrakesh (Arion Press, 2001) project, includes correspondence with Arion Press, offprints, photocopies, and copies of the prospectus. Included in this subseries are negatives and contact sheets from Bissinger's 1949 trip to Morocco. Subseries V.B. The Luminous Years (H. Abrams, 2003), includes contracts, correspondence, papers, proposals, mock-ups, numerous reviews of the book, and research materials compiled by Bissinger's then-photography representative and editor, Catherine Johnson. A significant portion of the book project comprises files for each individual included in the book, and most files contain research conducted by Johnson. This portion of the subseries reflects Johnson's original organization. Subseries V.C. Haiti project, comprises a single file containing correspondence, photocopies of images, and some negatives for a proposed book of Bissinger's photographs of Haiti. Subseries V.D. includes material for Susanna Cuyler's apparently unpublished work on Jeanne Owens, for which Bissinger wrote a paragraph recalling their friendship. Subseries V.E. includes materials gathered by Catherine Johnson for potential projects featuring Bissinger's work.

  1. Boxes 1-3; 33-34: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons
  2. Boxes 4-27; 31-32: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons (6 inches)
  3. Boxes 28-30: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes (3 inch)
  4. Boxes 35-37: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (15 inches)
  5. Box 38: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches)
  6. Box 39: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (18 inches)
  7. Box 40: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
  8. Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases
  9. Removals: Shelved in SPEC Media discs
  10. Removals: Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes

Gift of David Fechheimer, 2009.

Processed by Terri Nevins and Anita Wellner, 2010. Updated and completed by Anita Wellner, June-July 2014. Encoded by Dustin Frohlich, June 2014.

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Finding Aid Date
2014 June 23
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Series I. contains personal notebooks, journals, and other writings; correspondence; artwork; media; and other personal effects. The series is arranged in three subseries: I.A. Notebooks, journals, and other writings; I.B. Correspondence; and I.C. Artwork, artifacts, media, and miscellaneous.

Scope and Contents

Consists of notebooks kept by Karl Bissinger and his life partner, Richard Hanley. The notebooks contain a wide range of material, including itineraries for trips financial notes and bills, recipes, contact information, lists of clothing, and drawings for home decorations or room arrangements.

Bissinger notebook, 1968-1971.
Box 1 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Served as a journal for Bissinger during his 1968 trip to Cuba. He mentioned others on the trip such as Jerome Rothenberg, George Cohen, George Hitchcock, Susan Sontag, and Bruce Kendrick. His notes recorded contact information for the people he met and descriptions of the communities and farms the group toured, as well as his thoughts on socialism. He mentioned meeting Fidel Castro. Laid in are related clippings, contact information, letters, invitations, flyers and travel documents. The notebook also recorded notes taken during his attendance of the Southeastern People's Revolutionary Conference (1971) where he met Kathleen Cleaver. The conference was sponsored by the Malcolm X United Liberation Front.

Physical Description

110 pp.

Bissinger notebook, 1973.
Box 1 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Includes itinerary for a trip to Europe which included Dublin and Paris, journal regarding the flight and individuals he met, notes on a trip to Iowa City and Washington, a list of Massachusetts sites, as well as lists of negatives of literary persons and celebrities. Laid in are bills from Ireland, tearsheets, and a group letter signed by Diane di Prima. Also includes bathroom designs and a dog drawing.

Physical Description

37 pp.

Bissinger notebook labeled "Tickets", 1994-1995.
Box 1 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

The mostly blank notebook has a few telephone numbers and financial notes regarding bank accounts.

Physical Description

3 pp.

Bissinger/Hanley notebook, 2001-2002, undated.
Box 1 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

The mostly blank notebook has a few financial notes by Bissinger and notes by Hanley. Laid in are financial notes, telephone numbers and a cartoon.

Physical Description

7 pp.

Bissinger notebook, 2003-2006.
Box 1 Folder F4A
Scope and Contents

Financial notes by Bissinger, with a few notes and telephone numbers.

Physical Description

27 pp.

Bissinger/Hanley notebook, undated.
Box 1 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Bissinger's notes regarding conscientious objectors, the draft, deferrments, contact information, and resources. Hanley's notes and drawings are related to 18th- and 19th-century quilts and bed coverings, descriptions of furnishings, the Allen House, ideas for summer wardrobe, and wall fabric.

Physical Description

58 pp.

Bissinger's notes and contact information, 2002-2003.
Box 1 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Includes contact information, reminder and appointment notes, travel itineraries, and other brief notes on scrap paper and envelopes.

Hanley travel diary, circa 1982.
Box 1 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Brief notes on a trip, contact information, and laid in ticket stubs for transportation.

Physical Description

9 pp.

Hanley notebook, undated.
Box 1 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Drawings and notes by Richard Hanley, including lists of clothing; ideas and designs for room arrangements and furnishings; recipes; and notes. Laid in are recipes and blank postcards.

Physical Description

26 pp.

Hanley notebook, undated.
Box 1 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Drawings and notes by Hanley, including images of his dogs, an incomplete letter, and designs for room arrangements and furnishings. Laid in is a note and a transportation ticket from a trip to Spain in 1948.

Physical Description

24 pp.

Hanley notebook, undated.
Box 1 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Contains drawings and notes by Hanley for home designs, furniture, and accents, as well as sketches of birds and dogs, to-do lists, and miscellaneous notes.

Physical Description

27 pp.

Hanley notebook, undated.
Box 1 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Includes designs for wallpaper, one page of autobiographical information, and a letter to Stephanie Chamberlin. Laid in is a "Las Estracas" ticket from Mexico.

Physical Description

8 pp.

Toppy drafts, undated.
Box 1 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Drafts of a story written by Karl Bissinger.

Toppy drawings, undated.
Box 1 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Artwork for

Toppy.
Scope and Contents

This subseries includes letters from Bissinger's son, David Fechheimer; letters from literary persons whom Bissinger photographed, such as Paul Bowles and Diane di Prima; and from friends, particularly letters of condolence after the death of Richard Hanley in 1990. There are also letters written by Bissinger to newspapers regarding peace efforts or disarmament, and letters to Bissinger from peace organizations or individuals Bissinger knew through his activism, such as Julian Beck, Judith Malina, or Muriel Rukeyser.

David Fechheimer to Bissinger, 1978-1991, undated.
Box 1 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

Bissinger's son. Includes several articles about Fechheimer and one review written by him.

Bissinger to Hanley, 1964-1982.
Box 1 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

Written while Bissinger or Hanley were traveling. Includes clippings detailing the filming of 1964 western,

The Double-Barrelled Detective Story, for which Bissinger was one of the still photographers.
Richard Hanley to Bissinger, 1970s.
Box 1 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

Letters from Bissinger's life partner.

Richard Hanley notes and information, 1981-1990.
Box 1 Folder F17
Scope and Contents

Articles, notes, and drawings related to Hanley and patterns created by Hanley.

Muriel Rukeyser, 1973-1980.
Box 1 Folder F18
Scope and Contents

Includes an undated letter to Bissinger, a photograph taken by Rukeyser in 1975, plus an article and obituary.

Charles Owens to Bissinger and Jeanne Owens, 1942.
Box 1 Folder F19
Ellen McCune correspondence, 1952-1957.
Box 1 Folder F20
Scope and Contents

Includes a McCune letter and IOU to Bissinger, letters to McCune from Hungarian costume designer Marcel Vertes, George Davis and Lotte Lenya.

Ellen McCune correspondence with Tennessee Williams, 1957.
Box 1 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

One letter to McCune from Tennessee Williams and drafts of McCune's letters written to Williams in 1957 regarding his voluntary hospitalization.

Joseph Chaikin correspondence with Hanoch Barton, 1976.
Box 1 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of letters regarding Chaikin's response to Israel's sale of arms to South Africa in 1976.

Letters written by Bissinger, 1974, undated.
Box 1 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

One regarding Westbeth, with a petition signed by Muriel Rukeyser, among others.

1948-1969.
Box 1 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Walter Camp, Jr., Ruth Elded, Selden Rodman, Mathaias Goeritz, Ruth Landshoff, Diane di Prima (1966), Harriet Herbst, Paul Goodman and Paul Bowles (circa 1960s). Includes some letters addressed to Hanley regarding their dogs.

1970-1979.
Box 1 Folder F25
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Ned Rorem, Marlan Beilke, Judith Malina, Grace Paley, Diane di Prima (1974), Shari Martinelli, Julian Beck, and Bissinger's nephew, Frederick (Freddy) Bissinger.

1980-1987.
Box 1 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Millicent Dillon, Sylvia Braverman, Sandy Campbell, Donald Windham, and Paul Bowles (1989).

1990-1998.
Box 1 Folder F27
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Norman Rush, Sandy Broyard, and Sam Abrams.

2000-2005.
Box 2 Folder F28
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Helene Aylon.

2006.
Box 2 Folder F29
Scope and Contents

Includes a manuscript by Kirsten Lee Soares and letter from Scott Peacock (Edna Lewis).

2007.
Box 2 Folder F30
2008.
Box 2 Folder F31
2000s.
Box 2 Folder F32
undated.
Box 2 Folder F33
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters from Diane di Prima, one letter from Grace Paley, and three poems by Linda Gregg.

Cards and letters of condolence, 1990-1991.
Box 2 Folder F34
Scope and Contents

Letters in response to the death of Richard Hanley.

Cards and letters of condolence, 1990-1991.
Box 2 Folder F35
Scope and Contents

Letters in response to the death of Richard Hanley, including one from Grace Paley.

Bills, receipts, and invoices, 1971-2002.
Box 2 Folder F36
Scope and Contents

Account sheets for theater tickets.

Blank stationery and envelopes, undated.
Box 2 Folder F37
Blank cards, undated.
Box 2 Folder F38
Blank postcards, undated.
Box 2 Folder F39
Scope and Contents

Includes images of Ireland, Spain, artwork, and Westbeth.

Scope and Contents

The subseries consists of passports, a few artifacts, such as playing cards and buttons, notes regarding the Bissinger family recorded by Dan Murphy, information and printed material regarding Café Nicholson, and Westbeth, the New York City artist housing in which Bissinger lived. The subseries also includes pieces of artwork, such as a original collage by Lucia Vernarelli, which are inscribed to Bissinger.

Passports, 1948-2005.
Box 2 Folder F40
Scope and Contents

Includes passport used to visit Cuba through Mexico.

Physical Description

3 items

Material related to Dan Murphy and family, 1909-1910.
Box 2 Folder F41
Scope and Contents

Material related to Bissinger's maternal grandfather. Includes photographs of Agnes Murphy and Dan Murphy, clipping, membership card for The Jonathan Club in Los Angeles, and an inscribed copy of

After Big Game in the Arctic and Tropic by Max C. Fleischmann.
Material related to Café Nicholson, 1949-1999.
Box 2 Folder F42
Scope and Contents

Bissinger and John B. Nicholson formed a partnership in 1949 and opened Café Nicholson, a restaurant which became a popular New York meeting place for the rich and famous, as well as aspiring artists and writers. It was in the courtyard at the café that Bissinger took some of his photographs of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and others. Includes the business certificate, a menu autographed by actor Louis Calbern, as well as clippings and articles regarding the restaurant and its clientele. Also includes information about Edna Lewis, the café's chef.

Material related to Westbeth Artists Housing, 1970-2007.
Box 2 Folder F43
Scope and Contents

Bissinger was an active participant in the Westbeth community. Includes newsletters, minutes of council meetings, articles and printed material about Westbeth.

Printed material and ephemera, 1977-2006.
Box 2 Folder F44
Scope and Contents

Includes maps, menus, drawings, tearsheets, clippings, articles, and programs.

Tearsheets of Jacob Xaver Schmuzer handcolored printed, circa 1800.
Box 2 Folder F45
Collage by Lucia Vernarelli, undated.
Box 2 Folder F46
Scope and Contents

Original collage with a handwritten note by Bissinger.

Artwork, undated.
Box 2 Folder F47
Scope and Contents

Artwork or photocopies of artwork, including copies of a painting by Bissinger, as well as various drawings and painting by unidentified individuals (possibly by Richard Hanley or Bissinger). Items include

Bush Design, Palazzo Orsini, Roma, and several untitled paintings.
Artifacts, undated.
Box 2 Folder F48
Scope and Contents

Includes three decks of playing cards, three matchbooks, one small sewing kit, and two buttons.

Three Short NYC Films by Rob Garver, 2005.
Folder mss0682_dvd_0001
Physical Location

Shelved in SPEC Media discs

The Internationale, 2001.
Folder mss0682_vhs_0001
Physical Location

Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes

Mother Courage III: A MADRE Delegation to Lebanon, 1996.
Folder mss0682_vhs_0002
Physical Location

Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes

Home recordings of Azouz Begog, undated.
Folder mss0682_vhs_0003
Physical Location

Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes

Home recordings of the Art/New York show on photography exhibitions (Hans Namuth, Cindy Sherman and Robert Rauschenberg)., 1982.
Folder mss0682_vhs_0004
Physical Location

Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes

Scope and Contents

The series documents Karl Bissinger’s work on behalf of world peace, nuclear disarmament, and related social concerns, for which, in 2005, Bissinger (along with Ralph Digia) received the War Resisters League’s annual Peace Award.

Scope and Contents

In this subseries are files of correspondence, a conspiracy statement written in 1967 regarding the burning of draft cards, as well as press releases and statements from the WRL. The series also has a series of War Resisters League Peace Calendars, on which Bissinger worked or in a few instances, provided photographs.

Correspondence, 1962-2004.
Box 2 Folder F1
Conspiracy statement, 1967.
Box 2 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Statement written by Bissinger and others in support of burning draft cards.

Statements and letters to the editor written by Bissinger, 1967, undated.
Box 2 Folder F3
Press releases and WRL statements, 1968-1988.
Box 2 Folder F4
Notes, articles, and information, 1971-2003.
Box 2 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Includes a signed piece of artwork by Ira Cohen (1997) and three posters titled

Art for WRL.
2005 Annual Dinner and Presentation of the 40th Peace Award: Karl Bissinger and Ralph DiGia, 2005.
Box 2 Folder F5A
Scope and Contents

Karl Bissinger was honored for his work with the War Resisters League. Two copies of the publication.

Theatrum Mundi program for Dry Rain, 1988.
Box 2 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

This Vietnam docu-drama is dedicated to Karl Bissinger.

Clippings and photocopies, 1970, undated.
Box 2 Folder F7
WRL blank stationery and cards, undated.
Box 2 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Bissinger served on the Calendar Committee for the publication of all of the calendars, with the exception of the 1972 calendar. Photographs by Bissinger appear in a number of the calendars. Some of the calendars were used by Bissinger to record appointments, contact information, and notes. Several have only a few or no appointments.

In Woman's Soul: The 1972 Peace Calendar and Appointment Book, 1972.
Box 2 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Calendar worked on by Grace Paley.

What Did You Learn in School Today…A Statement on the Liberation of Education, The 1977 Peace Calendar, 1977.
Box 3 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Art direction and selection by Bissinger and Hanley.

365 Reasons Not to Have Another War: 1989 Peace Calendar, 1989.
Box 3 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

The calendar was written by Grace Paley with paintings by Vera B. Williams.

The Peaceful Palate: a year of zestful vegetarian recipes, 1994 Peace Calendar, 1994.
Box 3 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

A recipe by Bissinger is included.

With Peace On Our Wings: 50 years of resistance to The Bomb, 1995 Peace Calendar, 1995.
Box 3 Folder F13
Nothing But the Truth: Activists Speak in Court, 1996 Peace Calendar, 1996.
Box 3 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Coretta Scott King.

Womanspirit Moving: Toward Peace and Justice, 1997 Peace Calendar, 1997.
Box 3 Folder F15
War Resisters League 1923-1998: 75 Years of Nonviolent Resistance, 1998 Peace Calendar, 1998.
Box 3 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

The calendar is a written and photographic history of the War Resisters League.

Young People Look at the World: War Resisters League 1999 Peace Calendar, 1999.
Box 3 Folder F17
Earthshaking Women: 20th-Century Rebels and Peacemakers: War Resisters League 2001 Peace Calendar, 2001.
Box 3 Folder F18
Scope and Contents

2 copies.

Let Us Go Forward Together: Influential writings and art on war, peace, and social justice from 50 years of the WRL Peace Calendar: War Resisters League 2005 Peace Calendar, 2005.
Box 3 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

2 copies.

Nonviolent Activist, 1996-200.
Box 3 Folder F20
WRL News, 1975.
Box 3 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

Includes responses by the FBI, including files, to Bissinger's requests for information about his files, most of which related to anti-war and peace activities.

Correspondence and documents from FBI files, 1968-1978.
Box 3 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Rudolph W. Giuliani (1977) when he has Acting Deputy Attorney General.

Photocopies of documents from FBI files, 1968-1972.
Box 3 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

Bissinger was a participant in the Greenwich Village Peace Center, as well as a regular anti-war demonstrator in New York and Washington, D. C. The series includes the publications of other peace organizations, such as the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.

Russian anti-nuclear protest pamphlet, 1962.
Box 3 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Two copies of a pamphlet announcing a demonstration in Moscow (in Russian).

Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution, 1972.
Box 3 Folder F25
Scope and Contents

Reprint of article by George Lakey from

WIN magazine.
Greenwich Village Peace Center publications, 1973.
Box 3 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes two copies of

Peacemeal, a cook book from the Greenwich Village Peace Center, with introduction by Grace Paley.
WIN, 1966-1973.
Box 3 Folder F27
Scope and Contents

Nine issues of a publication of the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.

WIN, 1974.
Box 3 Folder F28
Scope and Contents

Thirteen issues of a publication of the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.

Theory and Practice of Civil Disobedience, 1961.
Box 3 Folder F29
Scope and Contents

Written by Arthur Harvey.

Notes on a Decade Ready for the Dustbin, 1969.
Box 3 Folder F30
Scope and Contents

Reprint from

Liberation of an article written by Carl Oglesby.
Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam Film Program, 1967 January 29-February 5.
Box 3 Folder F31
Scope and Contents

Poster which includes a list of the participants and sponsors.

Miscellaneous newsletters and printed material by peace organizations, 1974-2000.
Box 3 Folder F32
Scope and Contents

Anti-war/peace material published by the American Friends, Clergy & Laity Concerned, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the A. J. Muste Memorial Institute.

Newspapers and magazines, 1972-2004.
Box 3 Folder F33
Scope and Contents

Include articles on Vietnam, the war on terror and other political topics.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger and Paley were friends and fellow activists in the anti-war and peace organizations, particularly the War Resisters League in New York. The subseries includes printed material, books, and ephemera.

Photographs of Bissinger and Paley, undated.
Box 3 Folder F34
Scope and Contents

Computer generated copies of photographs with an email from Lisa Miller.

Bitches and Sad Ladies, 1975.
Box 3 Folder F35
Scope and Contents

Anthology which includes Paley's story

the long-distance runner
delta, 1982 May.
Box 3 Folder F36
Scope and Contents

Grace Paley issue of the journal.

Climbing Fences, 1987 December 14.
Box 3 Folder F37
Scope and Contents

Special publication of the War Resisters League in New York honoring Grace Paley on her sixty-fifth birthday.

Articles and obituaries, 1989-2008.
Box 3 Folder F38
Scope and Contents

Includes an issue of

UR University Review .

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of publications containing Bissinger photographs. Included are two rare issues of

Junior Bazaar, several issues of Flair, and the complete first run of Ikon.
Junior Bazaar, 1947 February.
Box 4 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Hoagy Carmichael, Philip Dorn, Ann Jeffreys, Cris Alexander, Beatrice Pearson, Patricia Neal, Mary Welch, Frances Reid, June Duprez.

Junior Bazaar, 1947 June.
Box 4 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Otto Kruger and daughter Ottilie; Moses Soyer studio.

Vogue, 1949 July.
Box 4 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Juanita Hall and Betta St. John, Robert Lewis Shayon, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Marge and Gower Champion, Elena Nikolaidi, Elizabeth Montgomery (costume designer).

Scope and Contents

Bissinger was staff photographer for

Flair for its entire run.
1950 February.
Box 4 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

Includes Gore Vidal group photograph at Café Nicholson, photographs of Duke and Duchess Windsor in Paris, and Morocco travel photographs.

1950 March.
Box 4 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Includes Max Weber, Manolo Vargas, Spain travel photographs.

1950 April.
Box 4 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Includes Mouloudji, Juliette Greco, Denise de Rotival Davey, Collete, American businessmen in Paris, and French church art in Vermont.

1950 August.
Box 4 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Includes jazz at Princeton, Stanford University and Northwestern University students.

1950 December.
Box 4 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Includes Washington, D.C., personalities.

Theatre Arts, 1951 June.
Box 4 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Ferenc Molnar, photographs of Paris, Jean Cocteau, Mistinguette, and Michele Morgan.

Theatre Arts, 1951 August.
Box 4 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Jean Renoir.

Harper's Bazaar, 1951 October.
Box 4 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Jose Greco.

Town Country, 1952 April.
Box 4 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Bobby Jones at the Masters golf tournament.

Vogue, 1957 November 15.
Box 4 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

James Gould Cozzens.

Kulchur 6, 1962 Summer.
Box 4 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

Photographer for Living Theatre during European tour. Cover is from

The Apple.
Art Voices, 1966 Fall.
Box 4 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

Photograph from Living Theatre production of

The Brig.
Scope and Contents

Bissinger was staff photographer for entire first run.

Vol. I, No. 1-3, 1967.
Box 4 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

Includes multiple copies of issues.

Vol. I, No. 5, 1968 March.
Box 5 Folder F17
Vol. I, No. 6-7, 1968-1969.
Box 5 Folder F18
Ikon: The Sixties (No. 11), 1990.
Box 5 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

Includes Bissinger photos published in previous issues.

A Little Original Sin book jackets, 1981-circa 1990s.
Box 5 Folder F20
Scope and Contents

Book jackets from several editions of Bowles's biography with Bissinger photograph of Jane Bowles.

Marie Claire, 1992.
Box 5 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

Japanese articles on Paul and Jane Bowles that include Bissinger photographs.

New York, 2003 December 22-29.
Box 5 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

Group photograph of Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Buffie Johnson, Donald Windham, and Tanaquil Le Clercq, at the Café Nicholson.

B, 2004 June.
Box 5 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

Includes article on Karl Bissinger, with photograph of Bissinger by Zachary Fechheimer (his grandson). Also includes Bissinger photographs of Juliette Greco, Jean Cocteau, Anna Magnani, James Baldwin, Montgomery Clift, Ezio Pinza, Hoagy Carmichael, Saul Steinberg, Paul Bowles, Robinson Jeffers, and Jean Marais.

Crossroads: Journal of the Poetry Society of America, 2004 Spring.
Box 5 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Cover includes Bissinger photograph of Jane Bowles.

Steidl Frühjahr, 2006.
Box 5 Folder F25
Scope and Contents

Bissinger photograph of Maeve Brennan on cover of catalog.

Miscellaneous publications with Bissinger photographs, 1948-2001.
Box 5 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper articles, magazine articles, tear sheets, and galley proofs.

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes interviews with Karl Bissinger and various articles about him as a photographer and as an activist. Also included is Bissinger's written tribute to his friend, Saul Gottlieb. See also Series V.B. for reviews and articles related to the publication of his photographs.

"Saul Gottlieb," by Karl Bissinger, 1971 January 21.
Box 5 Folder F27
Scope and Contents

Newspaper article Bissinger wrote about Saul Gottlieb, published in

The Village Voice.
George Plimpton interview for Smart, 1988 Fall.
Box 5 Folder F28
Scope and Contents

Bissinger interviewed by George Plimpton for article on Truman Capote.

Michael Maronna interview, 1995.
Box 5 Folder F29
Scope and Contents

Originally interviewed by Michael Maronna in 1995. Excerpt published in 2005 for the War Resisters League dinner honoring Karl Bissinger and Ralph DiGia.

Miscellaneous publications about Bissinger as photographer, 1950-2006.
Box 5 Folder F30
Scope and Contents

Includes 2006 Legends of the Village calendar, which featured Bissinger in April.

Miscellaneous publications about Bissinger as activist, 1970-2005.
Box 5 Folder F31
Scope and Contents

Several articles about or featuring Bissinger, including November 29, 1970, article from

New York Times Magazine, "From 1-A to 4-F And All Points In Between," by Saul Braun. Also includes notes from Catherine Johnson's speech at 2005 WRL dinner honoring Bissinger.
"Karl Bissinger: A Retrospective", 2008.
Box 5 Folder F32
Scope and Contents

Article about Bissinger's life, including information obtained through interviews. Schwartz noted that a shorter version of this article appeared shortly after Bissinger's death, in the Winter issue of

WIN as a memorial to him.
Scope and Contents

This subseries reflects Bissinger's lifelong interest in theater, particularly experimental theater. He kept many playbills and programs, along with a number of magazines containing articles about the Open Theatre, the Living Theatre, and the Bread and Puppet Theatre. He also kept articles about his friends, Joseph Chaikin, Julian Beck, and Judith Malina.

Theatre Arts, 1945 December.
Box 5 Folder F33
Theatre Arts, 1950 September.
Box 5 Folder F34
Theatre Arts, 1951 February.
Box 6 Folder F35
Kulchur 3, 1961.
Box 6 Folder F36
Scope and Contents

Includes article by Julian Beck.

2nd New York Film Festival, 1964 September 14-26.
Box 6 Folder F37
Scope and Contents

Debut of film of the Living Theatre's 1963 production of

The Brig
The Drama Review, 1968 Winter.
Box 6 Folder F38
Scope and Contents

Includes an interview with Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theatre, and an interview with Joseph Chaikin

The Drama Review 14, no. 3, 1970.
Box 6 Folder F39
Scope and Contents

Includes several articles on the Bread and Puppet Theatre, including one by Peter Schumann.

New York Times, "A New Way of Making Theater--and It's Over", 1973 October 7.
Box 6 Folder F40
Scope and Contents

Interview with Joseph Chaikin about announced disbanding of the Open Theatre.

The Living Theatre Retrospectacle, 1986 October 17.
Box 6 Folder F41
Scope and Contents

Performance at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union, New York, featuring scenes from Living Theatre productions 1951-1983.

40th Anniversary Celebration - The Living Theatre, 1991 December 5.
Box 6 Folder F42
Scope and Contents

Program from 40th anniversary celebration benefit for Living Theatre, held at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York.

American Writing, 1992.
Box 6 Folder F43
Scope and Contents

Includes an interview with Brenda Dixon about her time with Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre.

Performing Arts, 1996 December.
Box 6 Folder F44
Scope and Contents

Program for

Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Theatre on the Square.
The Villager, 2006 October 11-17.
Box 6 Folder F45
Scope and Contents

Incomplete article about the Living Theatre's reprise of

The Brig.
1978.
Box 6 Folder F46
1992-1999.
Box 6 Folder F47
2000.
Box 6 Folder F48
2001.
Box 6 Folder F49
2002-2003.
Box 6 Folder F50
2004, 2007.
Box 6 Folder F51
Lincoln Center Theater Review, 2003.
Box 6 Folder F52
Miscellaneous theater programs, 1961-2004.
Box 6 Folder F53
Scope and Contents

Includes a program for

Peasant Life, an Angry Arts benefit production in which Bissinger played a role. Other programs included are from Judson Poets' Theater, 29th Street Rep, and a postcard for the Living Theatre's A Dream of Water in 2003.
Miscellaneous articles kept by Bissinger, 1975-2007.
Box 7 Folder F54
Scope and Contents

Includes articles sent to Bissinger by friends or that were about friends, including Edna Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Helen Morgan, Ken Nordine, Paul Bowles, and Al Carmines.

Vanity Fair, 1935 November.
Box 7 Folder F55
Stage, 1937 December.
Box 7 Folder F56
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1940-1941.
Box 7 Folder F57
View, 1944 Fall.
Box 7 Folder F58
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1944-1945.
Box 7 Folder F59
View, 1945 December.
Box 7 Folder F60
Fotocronache di Munari, 1945.
Box 7 Folder F61
Dance Index, 1946.
Box 7 Folder F62
La Revue du Cinema, 1948 May.
Box 7 Folder F63
La Revue du Cinema, 1948 June.
Box 7 Folder F64
Horizon, 1948 November.
Box 7 Folder F65
Harper's Bazaar, 1950 July.
Box 7 Folder F66
Yale French Studies, 1951.
Box 7 Folder F67
Harper's Bazaar, 1952 June.
Box 7 Folder F68
Harper's Bazaar, 1952 July.
Box 7 Folder F69
Harper's Bazaar, 1953 January.
Box 7 Folder F70
Harper's Bazaar, 1953 November.
Box 7 Folder F71
Harper's Bazaar, 1954 January.
Box 7 Folder F72
Realites, 1956 January.
Box 7 Folder F73
House and Garden, 1957 April.
Box 7 Folder F74
Gebrauchsgraphik, 1958.
Box 8 Folder F75
Graphis, 1958 March/April.
Box 8 Folder F76
Films in Review, 1959 March.
Box 8 Folder F77
Du, 1960 January.
Box 8 Folder F78
Kulchur, 1960 Spring.
Box 8 Folder F79
Realites, 1961 December.
Box 8 Folder F80
Atlantic, 1962 February.
Box 8 Folder F81
Film Culture, 1963 Summer.
Box 8 Folder F82
Film Culture, 1963-1964 Winter.
Box 8 Folder F83
Film Culture, 1964 Spring.
Box 8 Folder F84
Tri-Quarterly, 1964 Fall.
Box 8 Folder F85
Du, 1964 April.
Box 8 Folder F86
Realites, 1964 May.
Box 8 Folder F87
Vogue, 1964 November 15.
Box 8 Folder F88
Du Atlantis, 1966 March.
Box 8 Folder F89
Evergreen Review, 1966 April.
Box 8 Folder F90
Art in America, 1966 November, December.
Box 8 Folder F91
Vogue, 1966 December.
Box 9 Folder F92
Graphis, 1967 May.
Box 9 Folder F93
Realites, 1967 August.
Box 9 Folder F94
Vogue, 1969 October 15.
Box 9 Folder F95
House and Garden, 1970 December.
Box 9 Folder F96
House and Garden, 1972 September.
Box 9 Folder F97
House and Garden, 1973 April.
Box 9 Folder F98
Atlantic Monthly, 1973 May.
Box 9 Folder F99
Realites, 1973 July.
Box 9 Folder F100
House and Garden, 1975 March.
Box 9 Folder F101
City of San Francisco, 1975 August 3.
Box 9 Folder F102
The Arts in Ireland, 1975.
Box 9 Folder F103
The New Yorker, 1976 March 1.
Box 9 Folder F104
House and Garden, 1976 May.
Box 9 Folder F105
Vogue, 1976 May.
Box 9 Folder F106
Vogue, 1978 August.
Box 9 Folder F107
Eastern Review, 1980 October.
Box 9 Folder F108
Realites, 1981 April.
Box 9 Folder F109
National Geographic, 1995 December.
Box 10 Folder F110
Ballet Review, 1996 Spring.
Box 10 Folder F111
The New Yorker, 1998 September 14.
Box 10 Folder F112
The Nation, 2000 November 27, 2001 January 22.
Box 10 Folder F113
The Nation, 2003 June 9.
Box 10 Folder F114
The New Yorker, 2004 April 19, 26.
Box 10 Folder F115
Monthly Review, 2004 February, March.
Box 10 Folder F116
And Then, 2004.
Box 10 Folder F117
Scope and Contents

vol. 12

The Nation, 2004 May 17.
Box 10 Folder F118
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, 2004 Spring.
Box 10 Folder F119
The New Yorker, 2005 September 12.
Box 10 Folder F120
Art in America, 2006 March.
Box 10 Folder F121
The New Yorker, 2006 April 10.
Box 10 Folder F122
The New Yorker, 2006 April 24.
Box 10 Folder F123
Gallery and Studio, 2006 June, July, August.
Box 10 Folder F124
The New Yorker, 2006 September 11.
Box 10 Folder F125
The New York Times Magazine, 2007 November 11.
Box 10 Folder F126
Gallery and Studio, 2007 November, December, 2008 January.
Box 10 Folder F127
The New Yorker, 2008 May 5.
Box 10 Folder F128

Scope and Contents

Bissinger continued to practice photography his entire life, although his professional career was split into two distinct phases. His early career was spent working on assignments for major fashion magazines like

Junior Bazaar, Harper's Bazaar, and Vogue, and as staff photographer for Flair for its entire run (1950-1951). In the 1960s, his work shifted toward socially-conscious photography, photographing demonstrations and marches, and serving as staff photographer for Ikon magazine (1967-1968).
Scope and Contents

This subseries includes photographic portraits done on assignment for a variety of publications, including fashion magazines like

Flair, Harper's Bazaar, and Vogue, as well as theater publications, particularly Theatre Arts.
Abbott, George, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while directing

High Button Shoes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Abbott, Mary Lee, 1950s.
Box 11 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one large format color transparency. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Adair, Yvonne, 1949.
Box 11 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while appearing in

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Includes negatives, large format negatives, contact sheets and prints.
Aiken, Conrad and Mary Hoover Aiken, circa 1950s.
Box 11 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints. Negatives available in Series V.B.

Alda, Alan (and others), circa 1961.
Box 11 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Photographed with Ossie Davis, Orson Bean, and an unidentified actress, for Theater People for Peace. Includes negatives and one print.

Alexander, Cris, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while appearing in Noel Coward's

Present Laughter. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Antonio, Rennie di, 1950.
Box 11 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Auden, W.H., 1973.
Box 11 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

One print.

Avedon, Doe, 1946-1947.
Box 11 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Photographed with husband Richard Avedon and with Leonard Gershe. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Avedon, Richard, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Baldwin, James, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Bankhead, Tallulah, 1951.
Box 11 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Polo Grounds, watching Giants with jazz musician Joe Bushkin. Includes three contact sheets and one print.

Barker, George and Oscar Williams, 1950s.
Box 11 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Bassman, Lillian, 1948.
Box 11 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph with Richard Avedon. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Battles, John, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Baxter, Connie, circa 1947.
Box 11 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Beaurepaire, Andre, 1950.
Box 11 Folder F17
Scope and Contents

Two prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Beck, Julian, circa 1955-1965.
Box 11 Folder F18
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, one black and white slide, and portion of contact sheet.

Bel Geddes, Barbara, circa 1950-1960.
Box 11 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Belmonte, Prince Ferdinando, 1949.
Box 11 Folder F20
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of his son, Gaetano. Photographed at his home in Catania, Sicily. Also includes contact sheets.

Bennett, Robert Russell, 1949.
Box 11 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

Includes large format negatives and contact sheets.

Berenson, Bernard, circa 1948.
Box 11 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

Photographed at I Tatti, Berenson's villa outside Florence. Includes two small prints, one large print, and a single image from a contact sheet.

Bettis, Valerie, 1948.
Box 11 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

Photographed performing Bettis choreography for

As I Lay Dying. Includes contacts from large format negatives, and prints.
Biddle, Margaret Thompson, 1949.
Box 11 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Morocco. Includes negatives, parts of a contact sheet, and one print.

Blitzstein, Marc, 1949.
Box 11 Folder F25
Scope and Contents

Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Bogin, Meg, 1970s.
Box 11 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Bohanovitch, Dr., 1946-1960.
Box 11 Folder F27
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets containing photographs of unidentified woman.

Borghese family, 1950.
Box 11 Folder F28
Scope and Contents

Photographed at home in Palermo, Sicily. Includes negative, contact sheets, and one print.

Bowles, Paul and Jane, circa 1947-1949.
Box 11 Folder F29
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, one large format negative, contact sheets, and prints for both Jane and Paul Bowles. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Boyer, Charles, 1953.
Box 11 Folder F30
Scope and Contents

Photographed in the library of the French Research Foundation, which he established in California. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Brando, Marlon, 1948.
Box 11 Folder F31
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while starring in

A Streetcar Named Desire. One large format negative made from contact sheet; one 8 x 10 negative, and two photocopies of cover image for The Luminous Years. One print available in Series V.B.
Braverman, Sylvia, 1949.
Box 11 Folder F32
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Breiseth, Tillman, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F33
Scope and Contents

Photographed at the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and contact sheet. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives.

Brennan, Maeve, circa 1948.
Box 11 Folder F34
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and two 11 x 14 contact sheets.

Brooks, David, circa 1948.
Box 11 Folder F35
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Brooks, Stella, 1947-1948.
Box 11 Folder F36
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.

Brown, Kenneth, circa 1963.
Box 11 Folder F37
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes Bissinger's note to send two different 8 x 10 photographs to London agent A.D. Peters, care of Sally Bentlif, who in 1965 married journalist and Nelson Mandela biographer Anthony Sampson.

Brown, Pamela, 1947.
Box 11 Folder F38
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson while in costume for her role in

The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Buka, Donald, 1948.
Box 12 Folder F39
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Burr, Ann, 1950.
Box 12 Folder F40
Scope and Contents

Photographed at the Radio Theatre in Chicago. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Cabrera, Lydia, 1948.
Box 12 Folder F41
Scope and Contents

Photographed at her home near Havana, Cuba. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Capote, Truman, 1947-1948.
Box 12 Folder F42
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York, and on set of Jean Cocteau film

Les Parents terribles in Paris with Marie-Louise Bousquet, editor of French Harper's Bazaar. Includes negatives, one large-format negative taken from contact sheet, one contact sheet, and prints. Also includes one newspaper clipping of photograph.
Carmichael, Hoagy, 1947.
Box 12 Folder F43
Scope and Contents

Photographed with artist Charles Owens and editor Jean Lavender. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Carroll, Helena, 1950s.
Box 12 Folder F44
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and one print.

Carson, Mindy, circa 1950.
Box 12 Folder F45
Scope and Contents

Includes large format negatives and two prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Cavanaugh, Inez, 1944-1945.
Box 12 Folder F46
Scope and Contents

One print.

Cela, Camilo José, 1950.
Box 12 Folder F47
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

di Cerami, Prince Domenico Rosso, 1949-1950.
Box 12 Folder F48
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Catania, Sicily. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Chaikin, Joseph, late 1950s-1960s.
Box 12 Folder F49
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and prints.

Champion, Marge and Gower, 1949.
Box 12 Folder F50
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.

Channing, Carol, 1949.
Box 12 Folder F51
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while starring in

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Includes large-format negatives and prints.
Chris, Marilyn, 1961.
Box 12 Folder F52
Scope and Contents

Photographed while performing in the Living Theatre production of

The Apple. Fragments of contact sheets. For additional images, see Series IV.A.
Christie, Audrey, Virginia Fields and Phyllis Povah, 1949.
Box 12 Folder F53
Scope and Contents

Photographed in dressing room while performing in

Light Up The Sky. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Churchill, Sarah Millicent Hermione, 1950.
Box 12 Folder F54
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Hollywood with Michèle Morgan. Three prints. For additional images, see Series IV.A.

Claussen, Alma.
Box 12 Folder F55
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and two prints.

Clift, Montgomery, 1948.
Box 12 Folder F56
Scope and Contents

Photographed on streets of New York City. Includes numerous negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Contact sheets also available in Series V.B.

Cocteau, Jean, 1948.
Box 12 Folder 57
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris on the set of

Les Parents terribles, along with Josette Day and Gabrielle Dorziat. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Collette, 1948.
Box 12 Folder F58
Scope and Contents

Photographed in her Paris apartment. Includes negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints.

Cooper, Gary, 1950.
Box 12 Folder F59
Scope and Contents

Photographed at home in Brentwood, California. Fragments of contact sheet and one print.

Corbett, Leonora, 1947.
Box 12 Folder F60
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Corso, Gregory, 1967.
Box 12 Folder F61
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one print. Photographed at May 1967 poetry reading that featured Andrei Voznesensk and included Robert Lowell, The Fugs, and Robert David Cohen. For more images from the 3 Penny Poetry reading, see Series IV.A.

Coy, Walter, 1947.
Box 12 Folder F62
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Cozzens, James Gould, early 1950s.
Box 12 Folder F63
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Crabtree, Paul, 1948.
Box 12 Folder F64
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Craus, Arlene, 1950s.
Box 12 Folder F65
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Curtiss, Thomas Quinn, circa 1950.
Box 12 Folder F66
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Dall, John, 1948.
Box 12 Folder F67
Scope and Contents

Photographed at various locations in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Daugherty, Charles, 1947-1948.
Box 12 Folder F68
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

De Liagre, Alfred, Jr., John van Druten and Stewart Chaney, 1947.
Box 12 Folder F69
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

The Druid Circle. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
De Mille, Agnes, 1947.
Box 12 Folder F70
Scope and Contents

Photographed backstage at

Allegro, which De Mille choreographed and directed. Also includes photographs from the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and damaged contact sheets. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives.
Dennison, George, late 1960s.
Box 12 Folder F71
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and newspaper clipping of photograph.

Deste, Luli, 1950.
Box 12 Folder F72
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives and large-format negatives.

Dinesen, Isak (Baroness Karen Blixen), 1959.
Box 12 Folder F73
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Two prints.

Di Prima, Diane, Alan Marlowe, and John Braden, 1966.
Box 13 Folder F74
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Millbrook estate during Timothy Leary occupation. Includes negatives.

Dorn, Philip, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F75
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

The Big Two. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Douglas, Susan, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F76
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

The Druid Circle. Includes negatives.
Drake, Alfred, 1947-1948.
Box 13 Folder F77
Scope and Contents

Includes one contact sheet and two prints.

Duprez, June, 1947-1948.
Box 13 Folder F78
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Evans, Maurice, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F79
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

Man and Superman. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Fabray, Nanette, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F80
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

High Button Shoes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Ferguson, Claire, circa 1948.
Box 13 Folder F81
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Ferrer, José, circa 1948.
Box 13 Folder F82
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Field, Betty, 1947-1948.
Box 13 Folder F83
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets with "Scotti Field, Voice of Turtle" written on verso. May refer to actress Betty Field, who was a replacement in

Voice of the Turtle.
Flanner, Janet, circa 1950.
Box 13 Folder F85
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Park Avenue Armory in New York. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Fontana Sisters (Zoe, Micol, Giovanna), 1949-1950.
Box 13 Folder F86
Scope and Contents

Photographed in their atelier, with Nelly Corradi modeling several dresses. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

Ford, Connie, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F87
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

Another Part of the Forest. Includes contact sheets.
Francine, Anne, 1954.
Box 13 Folder F88
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York, including in costume for

Beautiful is the shore. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets. Also includes an example of a negative Bissinger manipulated.
Galleotti, Baroness, 1950s.
Box 13 Folder F89
Scope and Contents

Includes numerous negatives.

Getz, Rhea, 1950-1965.
Box 13 Folder F90
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and one fragmented contact sheet.

Gill, Brendan, 1950s.
Box 13 Folder F91
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and two prints.

Gillespie, Pamela, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F92
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

Life With Father. Includes negatives and two contact sheets.
Gillette, Guy P., circa 1967.
Box 13 Folder F93
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Bissinger's kitchen table. Includes negatives and prints.

Gleason, Jackie, undated.
Box 13 Folder F94
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives of a man who may be American comedian Jackie Gleason.

Goeritz, Mathias, early 1950s.
Box 13 Folder F95
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Mexico City, Mexico. Includes negatives and prints.

Goodwin, John, circa 1950-1970.
Box 13 Folder F96
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Gordon, Ruth and Garson Kanin, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F97
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

How I Wonder. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Also included are negatives and contact sheets of Gordon and Kanin with actor Raymond Massey and writer Donald Ogden Stewart.
Gottlieb, Saul, early 1960s.
Box 13 Folder F98
Scope and Contents

Photographed with poet David Henderson on street in New York. Gottlieb's wife, Odda, is in background. Includes three prints.

Greco, José, circa 1951.
Box 13 Folder F99
Scope and Contents

Photographed performing in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Gréco, Juliette, 1949.
Box 13 Folder F100
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris with friend, poet Anne-Marie Cazalis. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Green, Steve, circa 1950-1965.
Box 13 Folder F101
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Gross, Chaim, 1950.
Box 13 Folder F102
Scope and Contents

Photographed in studio. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints, with some images of Stanley Hayter and Irene Rice Pereira.

Guinness, Alec, 1949.
Box 13 Folder F103
Scope and Contents

Photographed at house in Hammersmith, London. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Hagan, Ann, 1950.
Box 13 Folder F104
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets.

Haieff, Alexei, 1949.
Box 13 Folder F105
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Hall, Juanita and Betta St. John, 1949.
Box 13 Folder F106
Scope and Contents

Photographed in costume for roles in original cast of

South Pacific. Includes negatives.
Harriman, John, circa 1967.
Box 13 Folder F107
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Bissinger's kitchen table. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Harriman, W. Averell, 1950.
Box 13 Folder F108
Scope and Contents

Includes prints.

Harrison, Rex, 1948.
Box 13 Folder F109
Scope and Contents

Photographed on stage with Joyce Redman in

Ann of the Thousand Days. Includes negatives and prints. See Series IV.A. for contact sheets.
Hartman, Ronnie and Lois Lee, 1947.
Box 13 Folder F110
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

High Button Shoes. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Haskins, Virginia, 1948.
Box 13 Folder F111
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

Carousel. Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Hauser, Dr. Gaylord, 1950.
Box 13 Folder F112
Scope and Contents

Photographed at villa in Taormina, Sicily. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

Hayter, Stanley William, 1950.
Box 13 Folder F113
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, one print, and one contact sheet with several images of Irene Rice Pereira.

Hecht, Jenny, mid-1960s.
Box 14 Folder F114
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Henderson, David, 1960s.
Box 14 Folder F115
Scope and Contents

Includes prints.

Hepburn, Katharine, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F116
Scope and Contents

Photographed in her New York townhouse garden, along with ex-prizefighter Charles Newhill (Hepburn's bodyguard and butler) and American journalist Shana Alexander. Includes negatives and one print.

Holliday, Judy, 1947-1948.
Box 14 Folder F117
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while appearing in

Born Yesterday. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Houghton, Norris, circa 1948.
Box 14 Folder F118
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheet and print.

Howard, Jennifer, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F119
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Hunter, Kim, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F120
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while appearing in

A Streetcar Named Desire. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Hunter, Mary, circa 1948.
Box 14 Folder F121
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Huxley, Aldous and Christopher Isherwood, 1950.
Box 14 Folder F122
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Santa Monica, California. Includes negatives, contact sheets and prints.

Jean, circa 1949.
Box 14 Folder F123
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson. One print.

Jeffers, Robinson, 1950.
Box 14 Folder F124
Scope and Contents

Photographed at his home, Hawk Tower, in Carmel, California. Includes views of Big Sur. Also includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets. Additional negatives available in Series V.B.

Jeffries, Ann, 1949.
Box 14 Folder F125
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Jennings, Darin, 1947.
Box 14 Folder F126
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while performing in

Burlesque. Includes contact sheets.
Jessup, Richard, circa 1950-1960s.
Box 14 Folder F127
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets. Bissinger also photographed the Jessup family, individually and as a group, on several occasions.

Johnson, Buffie, 1949, circa 1972.
Box 14 Folder F128
Scope and Contents

Photograph in front of mirror in 1949, and later with her painting,

Labrys (1972). Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Johnson, Celia, 1949.
Box 14 Folder F129
Scope and Contents

Photographed in London. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Johnston, Denis, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F130
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during production of his play

The Old Lady Says "No!". Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Jones, James Earl, 1961-1962.
Box 14 Folder F131
Scope and Contents

Photographed in costume in Central Park. Includes negatives, contact sheets, prints, and color slides.

Jones, Robert Earl, circa 1973.
Box 14 Folder F132
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Kantor, Morris, early 1950s.
Box 14 Folder F133
Scope and Contents

Photographed in his studio in Union Square. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Kay, Hershey, circa 1965.
Box 14 Folder F134
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Kell, Reginald, 1950.
Box 14 Folder F135
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints.

Keller, Greta, 1971.
Box 14 Folder F136
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Kirkland, Pat, 1948-1950.
Box 14 Folder F137
Scope and Contents

Includes several photographs on Spanish Steps in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Knoll, Florence, 1950.
Box 14 Folder F138
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Knoll Associates showroom. Includes large-format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and one print. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Kruger, Otto, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F139
Scope and Contents

Photographed with his daughter Ottilie, who was appearing with him on Broadway. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Lam, Wilfredo, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F140
Scope and Contents

Photographed at his studio in Havana, Cuba. Includes negatives. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Lean, David, 1949.
Box 14 Folder F141
Scope and Contents

Photographed in London outside his mews studio. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Le Brocquy, Louis, 1948.
Box 14 Folder F142
Scope and Contents

Photographed in London. Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and one print.

Le Clercq, Tanaquil, 1949.
Box 14 Folder F143
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Leigh, Dorian, 1950s.
Box 14 Folder F144
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

L'Engle, Madeleine, 1948-1949.
Box 14 Folder F145
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Lenya, Lotte, 1951.
Box 14 Folder F146
Scope and Contents

Photographed with new husband George Davis, an American writer and editor. Includes two large format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Leslie, Bethel, circa 1950.
Box 14 Folder F147
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Levenson, Sam, 1950.
Box 14 Folder F148
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Lillie, Beatrice, 1952.
Box 14 Folder F149
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Lippman, Walter, 1950.
Box 14 Folder F150
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and prints.

Lippold, Richard, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F151
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Logan, Joshua, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F152
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

Mister Roberts. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Lowell, Robert, 1960s.
Box 15 Folder F153
Scope and Contents

Some photographs with Grace Paley. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Lust, Elenore, 1939, 1949.
Box 15 Folder F154
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Lyautey, Captain Pierre, 1949.
Box 15 Folder F155
Scope and Contents

Photographed with his wife in Morocco at the Nadir's diffa, with Patrick O'Higgins,

Flair travel editor, and Margaret Thompson Biddle, European editor at Flair. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Magnani, Anna, early 1950s.
Box 15 Folder F156
Scope and Contents

Photographed at her apartment in Rome with Piero Tellini, and at Café Nicholson with Johnny Nicholson. Notation on the verso of one contact sheet in Bissinger's hand "For Frank Merlo," Tennessee Williams's companion. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Mainbocher, 1951.
Box 15 Folder F157
Scope and Contents

Photographed in his New York atelier. Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Malina, Judith, 1960s.
Box 15 Folder F158
Scope and Contents

Photographed in performance as "Clara." Includes negatives and prints.

Marais, Jean, 1948.
Box 15 Folder F159
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris on the set of

Les Parents terribles. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Martin, Dean and Jerry Lewis, 1947.
Box 15 Folder F160
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and two large-format negatives.

Martinelli, Sheri, early 1950s.
Box 15 Folder F161
Scope and Contents

Photographed in several New York locales. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and negatives.

McCullers, Carson, circa 1950.
Box 15 Folder F162
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Nyack, New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

McLean, Jackie, 1960-1963.
Box 15 Folder F163
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

McLerie, Allyn Ann, circa 1950.
Box 15 Folder F164
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

McNaughton, James, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F165
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

McNeill, Don, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F166
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Melcarth, Edward, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F167
Scope and Contents

Photographed with one of his paintings. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Menen, Aubrey, 1949.
Box 15 Folder F168
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Sicily. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Midgette, Allen, 1960-1967.
Box 15 Folder F169
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, color negatives, and one color print,

Milford Haven, Duke and Duchess, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F170
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Miller, Alistair, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F171
Scope and Contents

Includes cut-up contact sheet.

Miller, Henry, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F172
Scope and Contents

Photographed at his home in Big Sur, California. Includes negatives, large format-negatives, and cut-up contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Misterbianco, Duke Di (Nene Trigona), 1950.
Box 15 Folder F173
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Sicily with architect Sebastiano Inserra and with son Alberto. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

Mistinguett, 1951.
Box 15 Folder F174
Scope and Contents

Photographed in her dressing room at the Club Tropicana, New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Molnár, Ferenc, 1949.
Box 15 Folder F175
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Plaza Hotel, New York. Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Montealegre, Felicia, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F176
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and two prints.

Monteux, Pierre, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F177
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Montgomery, Elizabeth, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F178
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Moore, Gar, circa 1949.
Box 15 Folder F179
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Morgan, Michèle, 1950.
Box 15 Folder F180
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Hollywood, with Sarah Churchill. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Morgan, Norman, 1948.
Box 15 Folder F181
Scope and Contents

Photographed backstage. Includes negatives

Morici, Pietro and Fernanda, 1949.
Box 15 Folder F182
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Taormina, Sicily. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

Morrow, Bill, circa 1959.
Box 16 Folder F183
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and print.

Mouloudji, Marcel, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F184
Scope and Contents

Photographed on streets of Paris. Includes negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

Mulzac, Captain Hugh, circa 1960-1970.
Box 16 Folder F185
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Mundy, Meg, 1948.
Box 16 Folder F186
Scope and Contents

Photographed while performing in

The Respectful Prostitute. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Murray, Natalia Danesi, 1949-1950.
Box 16 Folder F187
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Italy, with friends including Averell Harriman, Princess Borghese, the Fontana sisters at their atelier, Patrick O'Higgins, and Karl Bissinger himself. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.

Natkin, Robert, 1967.
Box 16 Folder F188
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Neal, Patricia, 1948.
Box 16 Folder F189
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while appearing in

Another Part of the Forest. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Neville, Virginia, circa 1949.
Box 16 Folder F190
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Includes contact sheets.

Newell, Laura, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F191
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Newland, John, circa 1958.
Box 16 Folder F192
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Nicholson, Johnny, 1946-1955.
Box 16 Folder F193
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson, Fire Island, and other locations. Includes Nicholson with his sister, with Jeanne Owens, with Dick Hanley, and with Bissinger. Also includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Nikolaidi, Elena, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F194
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Odetta, 1965.
Box 16 Folder F195
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, prints, and 1965 article with Bissinger photo of Odetta.

O'Donnell, Cathy, 1948.
Box 16 Folder F196
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

O'Dwyer, Sloan Simpson, 1950.
Box 16 Folder F197
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets.

O'Higgins, Patrick, 1949-1950.
Box 16 Folder F198
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Morocco and New York. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1950.
Box 16 Folder F199
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets.

Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F200
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Palermo, Sicily. Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Owen, Toni, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F201
Scope and Contents

Photographed with model wearing Toni Owen dress. Includes negatives.

Owens, Charles, 1946-1950.
Box 16 Folder F202
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York and Fire Island; also in Italy with Natalia Danesi Murray. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Owens, Jeanne, 1946-1950.
Box 16 Folder F203
Scope and Contents

Photographed at various locations in New York City and Fire Island. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Paley, Grace, 1960s.
Box 16 Folder F204
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Parish, Sister (Dorothy), 1950.
Box 16 Folder F205
Scope and Contents

Photographed in her home. Includes large-format negatives.

Parker, Jean, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F206
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Born Yesterday. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Patton, Jim, 1959.
Box 16 Folder F207
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Pearce, Alice, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F208
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one print.

Pearson, Beatrice, 1947.
Box 16 Folder F209
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while appearing in

The Voice of the Turtle. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Pereira, Irene Rice, 1950.
Box 16 Folder F210
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Peterson, Lenka, 1947.
Box 16 Folder F211
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Years Ago. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Petri, Egon, circa 1950.
Box 16 Folder F212
Scope and Contents

Photographed with students at Mills College, California. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Phillips, Margaret, 1948.
Box 16 Folder F213
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Summer and Smoke. Includes negatives and prints.
Picon, Molly, 1950.
Box 16 Folder F214
Scope and Contents

See Series V.B.

Pinza, Ezio, 1949.
Box 16 Folder F215
Scope and Contents

Photographed in dressing room while starring in

South Pacific. Includes negatives and one print.
Piper, Phillip, 1960s.
Box 16 Folder F216
Scope and Contents

Photographed at the Guggenheim Museum and other New York locations. Includes negatives.

Potter, Claire, 1950.
Box 16 Folder F217
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives.

Prince, William, 1951.
Box 16 Folder F218
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Rappeneau, Jean-Paul and Michelle Girardon, 1962.
Box 16 Folder F219
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Redman, Joyce, 1948.
Box 16 Folder F220
Scope and Contents

Photographed while performing with Rex Harrison in

Ann of the Thousand Days. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives and prints.
Reed, Susan, 1948.
Box 17 Folder F221
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Reid, Frances, 1949.
Box 17 Folder F222
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Renoir, Jean, 1950.
Box 17 Folder F223
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes large format negatives.

Robertson, Adele, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F224
Scope and Contents

Photographed while substituting for Judy Holliday in

Born Yesterday. Includes contact sheets.
Robinson, Lennox, circa 1949.
Box 17 Folder F225
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Roosevelt, Theodora, 1948.
Box 17 Folder F226
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Ross, Joan, circa 1950.
Box 17 Folder F227
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Rukeyser, Muriel, 1960s.
Box 17 Folder F228
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Washington Square Methodist Church. Includes negative and print.

Ruta, Peter, 1948.
Box 17 Folder F229
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Venice. Includes negatives and prints.

Saylor, Bruce and Bo Lawergren, 1971.
Box 17 Folder F230
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and newspaper clipping of photograph, dated November 7, 1971.

Schnee, Thelma, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F231
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Shaw, Evelyn, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F232
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Call Me Mister. Includes contact sheets.
Seeley, Jason, 1960s.
Box 17 Folder F233
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and two prints.

Shubert, Lee, circa 1947.
Box 17 Folder F234
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Simpson, Babs, 1950s.
Box 17 Folder F235
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets. Also includes photographs of her brother, Richard Domerico.

Sitwell, Christopher, Ms., circa 1960.
Box 17 Folder F236
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Sonstrom, Arnold, undated.
Box 17 Folder F237
Soyer, Raphael, circa 1949.
Box 17 Folder F238
Scope and Contents

Photographed at studio in New York with fashion models. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Steinberg, Saul, 1950.
Box 17 Folder F239
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Bissinger's Westbeth rooftop garden. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Sterling, Jan, 1949.
Box 17 Folder F240
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Stern, Isaac, circa 1954.
Box 17 Folder F241
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Sterne, Hedda, late 1940s.
Box 17 Folder F242
Scope and Contents

Photographed at her home in New York. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Stevens, May, circa 1970.
Box 17 Folder F243
Scope and Contents

Photographed with several of her paintings. Includes negatives and prints.

Stovall, Miriam, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F244
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Man and Superman. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Sundgaard, Arnold, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F245
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York, and at the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and clipping of published photograph. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives and contact sheets.

Tamayo, Rufino, circa 1952.
Box 17 Folder F246
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and print.

Taturla, Marilouise, 1949.
Box 17 Folder F247
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Spain with her El Greco painting. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Thompson, Marshall, circa 1953.
Box 17 Folder F248
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Tourel, Jennie, 1950.
Box 17 Folder F249
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Truffaut, François, circa 1962.
Box 17 Folder F250
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheet, and prints.

Tyler, Richard, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F251
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets.

Ustinov, Peter, 1953.
Box 17 Folder F252
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

The Love of Four Colonels, written by Ustinov. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Van Larkin, Adrian, circa 1950.
Box 17 Folder F253
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Varda, Agnès and Jacques Demy, 1962.
Box 17 Folder F254
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Vargas, Manolo, 1950.
Box 17 Folder F255
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Vidal, Gore, 1949.
Box 17 Folder F256
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Café Nicholson with Tennessee Williams, Buffy Johnson, Donald Windham, and Tanaquil Le Clercq. Includes large-format negatives and prints.

Von Sternberg, Josef, early 1950s.
Box 17 Folder F257
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and prints.

Vorse, Ellen, 1950s.
Box 17 Folder F258
Scope and Contents

Photographed with Johnny Beauchamp. Includes negatives.

Voznesensky, Andrei, 1967 May.
Box 17 Folder F259
Scope and Contents

Photographed at poetry reading sponsored by Angry Arts, including Gregory Corso, Robert Lowell, The Fugs, and Robert David Cohen. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives from same event.

Wanamaker, Sam, circa 1950.
Box 17 Folder F260
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Wayne, David, 1947.
Box 17 Folder F261
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheet, and prints.

Wayne, John, 1950.
Box 17 Folder F262
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Republic Pictures with director John Ford. Includes cut-cup contact sheets and prints.

Webb, Clifton, 1947.
Box 18 Folder F263
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York while starring in

Present Laughter. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Weber, Ben, circa 1966.
Box 18 Folder F264
Scope and Contents

Photographed at piano, and with Francis Thorne. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Weber, Max, 1948.
Box 18 Folder F265
Scope and Contents

Photographed in studio at Great Neck, Long Island. Includes large-format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and one print.

Weinstein, Arthur, undated.
Box 18 Folder F266
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Welch, Mary, 1948.
Box 18 Folder F267
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Wheel, Patricia, 1947.
Box 18 Folder F268
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Cyrano de Bergerac. Includes negatives and contact sheet.
White, Harriet, 1950.
Box 18 Folder F269
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Whitehead, Robert and Oliver Rea, 1947.
Box 18 Folder F270
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York during run of

Medea. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Whitmore, James, 1947.
Box 18 Folder F271
Scope and Contents

Photographed while appearing in

Command Decision. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Wilder, Clinton, 1948.
Box 18 Folder F272
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Williams, Tennessee, 1948.
Box 18 Folder F273
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Willingham, Calder, 1952.
Box 18 Folder F274
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Windsor, Duke and Duchess, 1948.
Box 18 Folder F275
Scope and Contents

Photographed at home in Paris. Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints. See Series IV.B. for color transparencies of their Paris home.

Wright, Pamela, 1947.
Box 18 Folder F276
Scope and Contents

Photographed during run of

Lady Windermere's Fan. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Young, La Monte and Marian Zazeela, 1964.
Box 18 Folder F277
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Photographs of unknown women, circa 1950-1970.
Box 18 Folder F278
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Photographs of unknown men, circa 1950-1980.
Box 18 Folder F279
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Photographs of unknown groups (adults), circa 1950-1980.
Box 18 Folder F280
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Photographs of unknown children or family groups, circa 1960-1980.
Box 18 Folder F281
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Scope and Contents

This subseries comprises photography assignments, including fashion shoots, travel spreads, and advertising work, for several different publications. Bissinger's first professional assignments were for

Junior Bazaar, a publication that lasted only three years (1945-1948), and he was staff photographer for Flair for its entire run, 1950-1951.
Ebony, 1949 February.
Box 19 Folder F282
Scope and Contents

Photographed at Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City. One print.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger recorded each

Flair assignment by job number and often added short descriptions of his subjects.
Job 96--New Orleans, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F283
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheet.

Job 108, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F284
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives and two prints.

Job 124--Denise de Rotival Davey, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F285
Scope and Contents

Listed on job envelope as "Denise Duval." Includes large-format negatives.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger's West Coast trip combined several different assignments that are listed separately by subject.

Arensberg house and art collection, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F286A
Scope and Contents

The Arensberg collection was photographed in situ at the Arensbergs' California home. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Reprints from original negatives, 2013.
Box 19 Folder F286B
Chandler house, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F287
Scope and Contents

Includes negative and large-format negatives.

John Jennings, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F288
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Mills Stables, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F289
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

"Mr. Marchant", 1949.
Box 19 Folder F290
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

San Francisco and the Pacific coast, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F291
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Santa Barbara poets, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F292
Scope and Contents

Photographed several individuals, including a child.

Stanford University, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F293
Scope and Contents

Photographed the campus, the Student Union and retired English professor, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, who was teacher, mentor, and friend of John Steinbeck.

Dolly Walker, 1949.
Box 19 Folder F294
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and large-format negatives.

Job 352--Jazz at Princeton, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F295
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger's trip through the upper Midwest, including Chicago and Minnesota.

Tin Pan Alley TV, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F296
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Minnesota, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F297
Scope and Contents

Photographed at University of Minnesota; includes photographs of Tillman Breiseth and Eleanor Rund. Also includes negatives and large-format negatives.

Job 436--Mazzini's bronzes, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F298
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheet.

Maximilian sable coat, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F299
Scope and Contents

Small dog photographed on streets of New York wearing a Maximilian sable coat. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Harry Winston diamonds, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F300
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives and one print.

Job 504--Nesting grounds/experiment, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F301
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and fragments of contact sheets.

Job 600--Washington personalities, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F302
Scope and Contents

Photographed ten men at various locations in Washington, D.C. Includes negatives for Henry A. Byroade, Dale E. Doty, Marx Leva, Ralph S. Trigg, and Eugene M. Zuckert. Also includes negatives for individual identified as "Cunl."

Job 607--Plaza Hotel, New York, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F303
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Job 677--Christmas gifts under $5, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F304
Scope and Contents

One print.

Job 686--Experiment, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F305
Scope and Contents

Photographed in New York. Includes negative and fragments of contact sheet.

Job number unknown--Mirror beauty, 1950.
Box 19 Folder F306
Scope and Contents

Includes large format negatives.

Job number unknown--Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1948.
Box 19 Folder F307A
Scope and Contents

Includes large format color transparencies of interiors from the Windsors' Paris home. See also Series IV.A. for other photographs from this job.

Best of Flair, 1996.
Box 19 Folder F307B
Scope and Contents

Edited by Fleur Cowles.

Junior Bazaar--Two directors, 1947.
Box 19 Folder F308
Scope and Contents

Photographs of John O'Shaughnessy, director of

Command Decision, and Harold Young, director of The First Mrs. Fraser. Includes contact sheets and negatives.
Junior Bazaar--Miscellaneous photo shoots, 1947-1948.
Box 19 Folder F309
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets for "Three evening dresses;" also includes three large-format color transparencies, one contact sheet and one print from other shoots.

Town Country--Bobby Jones, 1952.
Box 19 Folder F310
Scope and Contents

Photographed at the 1952 Masters golf tournament, held annually in Augusta, Georgia, along with Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and other notable figures. Includes negatives.

Town Country--Kentucky, circa 1952.
Box 19 Folder F311
Scope and Contents

Photographed architecture and people at various Kentucky thoroughbred horse farms. Includes negatives.

Vogue--Miscellaneous photographs, circa 1949-1950.
Box 19 Folder F312
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print, for several different

Vogue photo shoots.
Miscellaneous photo session, circa 1966.
Box 19 Folder F313
Scope and Contents

Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger went on extended travel assignments, primarily for

Flair, which featured dozens of Bissinger's travel photographs in articles devoted to individual countries and their respective cultures. Each Flair trip was assigned a job number. Bissinger also sold photographs from these trips to other publications, such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, as well as using them in book projects. See Series V.A.
Scope and Contents

No job number.

Cabalcata, 1948.
Box 19 Folder F314
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes program from the performance, and a paste-up of the page.

Prints, 1948.
Box 19 Folder F315
Complete contact sheets, 1948.
Box 20 Folder F316
Fragments of contact sheets, 1948.
Box 20 Folder F317
Scope and Contents

Contact sheets that have been cut or torn apart.

Negatives, 1948.
Box 20 Folder F318
Scope and Contents

Photographed various locations in Paris; other locations photographed include Chartres, Neuilly, Perpignon, Saint-Remy, Marseilles, Saint-Tropez, and Monte Carlo.

Flair assignment--Contact sheets and prints, 1948-1949.
Box 20 Folder F319
Scope and Contents

Photographed in France while on assignment for

Harper's Bazaar, and also under Flair Job 63, as Bissinger photographed in Paris and other French locales before going to Italy.
Flair--Negatives, 1948-1949.
Box 20 Folder F320
Second trip to France, 1961-1962.
Box 20 Folder F321
Scope and Contents

Photographed Living Theatre performance and French directors Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy; also photographed demonstration in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. See also Series IV.A.

Scope and Contents

Flair Job 63. Bissinger photographed in Rome and other Italian locales, but focused most of his attention on Sicily. He photographed all genres--street scenes, people, festivals, gatherings, gardens, parks, and architecture.
Amalfi coast, Naples, and Pompeii, 1949.
Box 20 Folder F322
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Paestum, 1949.
Box 20 Folder F323
Scope and Contents

Small prints of Greek temples.

Prints, 1949.
Box 20 Folder F324
Contact sheets (original), 1949.
Box 20 Folder F325
Contact sheets (reprints), circa 1949.
Box 20 Folder F326
People, 1949.
Box 20 Folder F327
Scope and Contents

Photographed a young Roman director, American actress Jane White, and Italian-American painter Nicolas Carone. Includes contact sheets.

Negatives, 1949.
Box 20 Folder F328
Siena, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F329
Scope and Contents

Photographed festival in Siena. Includes negatives.

Regatta--contact sheets, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F330
Scope and Contents

Photographed festival gathering of gondolas in Venice.

Regatta--negatives, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F331
Contact sheets and prints (original), 1949.
Box 21 Folder F332
Contact sheets (reprints), 2000s.
Box 21 Folder F333
Negatives, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F334
Scope and Contents

Many Bissinger photographs of Sicily and its inhabitants featured in

Flair.
Agrigento and Syracuse, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F335
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of restoration of Greek temples and the temple ruins at Agrigento, and a series of photographs of folk singers from Syracuse. Includes cut-up contact sheets and several negatives.

Bagheria, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F336
Scope and Contents

Mainly architecture. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

Catania, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F337
Scope and Contents

Bissinger photographed at various locations in Catania, including the Borghese palace, and also photographed the Archbishop of Catania. Includes contact sheets and some negatives.

Catania's Opera dei Pupi, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F338
Scope and Contents

Photographed famed puppets of Catania. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and one print.

Monreale, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F339
Scope and Contents

Mainly photographs of the monastery, church, and harbor. Includes contact sheets.

Palermo, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F340
Scope and Contents

Mainly city scenes and architecture. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

Taormina, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F341
Scope and Contents

Photographed street scenes, views of Mt. Etna, and group of tarantella dancers in costume. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and one print.

Sicilian painter, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F342
Scope and Contents

Includes fragments of contact sheet of unnamed Sicilian painter.

Miscellaneous views and genre scenes, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F343
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets, negatives, and two prints.

Typescript captions for Sicilian personalities, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F344
Scope and Contents

Typescript captions prepared for

Flair spread on Sicily. See Series IV.A. for individual portraits of Prince Belmonte, the Borghese family, Prince Cerami, Duke Misterbianco, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and Aubrey Menen.
Other Italian locations, 1949.
Box 21 Folder F345
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints from various locales in Italy, including Florence, Frascati, and Ischia.

Negatives, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F346
Scope and Contents

Numerous negatives from Job 63 with original envelopes.

Mexico, undated.
Box 22 Folder F347
Scope and Contents

Two prints

Scope and Contents

Flair Job 1. Appeared in February 1950, the first issue.
Fez, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F348
Scope and Contents

Includes cut-up contact sheets and negatives.

Marrakesh - Bahia Palace, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F349
Scope and Contents

Mainly photographs of Sultan's and Pasha's dancers in the palace. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and one large-format color transparency.

Telouret, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F350
Scope and Contents

Mainly photographs of dancers. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and three prints.

Reserved Quarter, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F351
Scope and Contents

Photographed the Reserved Quarters in Meknes, Marrakesh, and Fez. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and two prints.

Market and craft scenes, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F352
Scope and Contents

Photographs of tanning vats, dyers, barbers, and even a Moroccan "drugstore." Includes cut-up contact sheets and negatives.

Genre scenes, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F353
Scope and Contents

Photographs of landscapes, architecture, and street scenes. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and three prints.

Karl Bissinger and Patrick O'Higgins, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F354
Scope and Contents

Portraits of Bissinger and O'Higgins, photographed at the Bahia Palace and included in the first issue of

Flair. Includes three large-format negatives and three contact prints.
Negative/Print envelopes, 1949.
Box 22 Folder F355
Scope and Contents

Empty envelopes with many handwritten notations about subject matter. Negatives had previously been removed for use in book project. See also Series V.B.

Scope and Contents

Flair Job 78. Bissinger combined his Flair trip by taking photographs for Harper's Bazaar assignment.
"Great Ladies of Madrid Society", 1948.
Box 22 Folder F356
Scope and Contents

Photographed Madrid society women in Balenciaga dresses for September 1948 issue of

Harper's Bazaar. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes two tear sheets.
"A Tourist in Spain", 1948.
Box 22 Folder F357
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Granada for September 1948 issue of

Harper's Bazaar. Includes negatives, contact sheets, prints, and tear sheet of article.
Bullfighters, 1948.
Box 23 Folder F358
Scope and Contents

Photographed at home and in bull ring. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Miscellaneous views and scenes, 1948.
Box 23 Folder F359
Scope and Contents

Photographed architecture, street scenes, and cityscapes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger photographed many different theatrical productions, theatre groups, and dance productions in New York and in Europe, even traveling with The Living Theatre during their European tour in the early 1960s. He ventured to Hollywood to serve as a cinematographer in the Jonas Mekas film,

The Double Barrelled Detective Story, in 1964.
Bread and Puppet Theatre, circa 1960s.
Contact sheets and prints, circa 1960s.
Box 23 Folder F360
Negatives, circa 1960s.
Box 23 Folder F361
Scope and Contents

Unless otherwise noted, photographs of Living Theatre productions were taken during the group's European tour.

The Connection, 1962, 2001.
Box 23 Folder F362
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and two prints. Also includes a color photograph of Niles Anderson and Shanti Duraux, who performed in the 2001 revival.

Many Loves, 1962.
Box 23 Folder F363
Scope and Contents

Featuring Judith Malina and Joseph Chaikin. Includes one print.

The Jungle of Cities, 1962.
Box 23 Folder F364
Scope and Contents

Features Judith Malina, Julian Beck, and "Ahmed." Includes two prints.

The Apple, 1962.
Box 23 Folder F365
Scope and Contents

Cast included Marilyn Chris, James Earl Jones, Henry Proach, John A. Coe, and others. Includes prints of performance, and negatives of individual cast member portraits.

Man Is Man, 1962.
Box 23 Folder F366
Scope and Contents

Featuring Judith Malina and Joseph Chaikin. Includes four prints.

The Brig, 1963.
Box 23 Folder F367
Scope and Contents

Includes one negative, three contact sheets, and one print.

Soon Jack November, 1966.
Box 23 Folder F368
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one print. Also includes review from January 20, 1966, issue of

The Village Voice with Bissinger photograph.
The Serpent, 1969-1970.
Box 23 Folder F369
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes newspaper clipping from May 11, 1969,

New York Times regarding the opening of the play, including uncredited Bissinger photograph.
Ubu Cocu, 1969.
Box 23 Folder F370
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Spiderwoman Theater (Muriel Miguel), circa 1976.
Box 23 Folder F371
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Green Pastures, 1951.
Box 23 Folder F372
Scope and Contents

Photographed William Marshall in the role of God. Includes negatives and one print.

Theater - Miscellaneous productions, circa 1950-1970.
Box 23 Folder F373
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints from several unidentified productions.

Judson Dancers, 1962-1964.
Box 24 Folder F374
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also include a flyer for the performance, featuring photograph by Bissinger.

Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1962.
Box 24 Folder F375
Scope and Contents

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Miscellaneous - Dance, circa 1960s.
Box 24 Folder F376
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Scope and Contents

Film directed by Jonas Mekas. Bissinger served as cinematographer for the movie and documented the entire shoot in photographs.

Part 1, 1964.
Box 24 Folder F377
Part 2, 1964.
Box 24 Folder F378
Part 3, 1964.
Box 24 Folder F379
Part 4, 1964.
Box 24 Folder F380
Part 5, 1964.
Box 24 Folder F381
Scope and Contents

Bissinger numbered the negatives and kept them in order by week.

Week 1, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F382
Week 2, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F383
Week 3, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F384
Week 4, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F385
Week 5, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F386
Week 6, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F387
Week 7, 1964.
Box 25 Folder F388
Scope and Contents

After joining the WRL, Bissinger photographed many of the marches, demonstrations, and conferences that he attended. A large number of these photographs and negatives were removed to Series V.E.

Cuba, 1968-1969.
Box 25 Folder F389
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Traveled to Cuba via Mexico as part of group that included Susan Sherman, Jerome Rothenberg, and others. During visit, Bissinger photographed Fidel Castro as he addressed the people. See also Series I. for the journal Bissinger kept during this trip.

Protests and marches, 1970s.
Box 25 Folder F390
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes photographs of Bissinger participating in protests and marches.

People's Distribution Center, 1970s.
Box 25 Folder F391
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Draft counseling, circa 1964-1972.
Box 25 Folder F392
Scope and Contents

Photographs of Bissinger, along with Paul Zimmer (Open Theatre), Sandra Wolfe, writer Sybil Claiborne, Charles Freehoff, Steve Berkowitz, and Ann Mudge. Includes contact sheets and prints.

Miscellaneous activities, circa 1960-1981.
Box 26 Folder F393
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints.

WRL Conference attendees (nude), undated.
Box 26 Folder F394
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger photographed at several schools in Manhattan for The Urban League and other organizations.

The Lighthouse, circa 1960s.
Box 26 Folder F395
Scope and Contents

School for vision-impaired children. Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and several prints.

Scope and Contents

Bissinger participated in program of therapeutic photography instruction for the children. Included are contact sheets and prints, as well as a typescript carbon copy of January 1968 report on the program.

Contact sheets and prints, 1967-1968.
Box 26 Folder F396
Summer camp, 1967-1968.
Box 26 Folder F397
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Field trips, 1967-1968.
Box 26 Folder F398
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Indoor activities, 1967-1968.
Box 26 Folder F399
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Playground and play time, 1967-1968.
Box 26 Folder F400
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Neighborhood Children's Center, circa 1968.
Box 26 Folder F401
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Scope and Contents

This subseries comprises images from Bissinger's personal life, including photographs and slides of him, his home, his partner Dick Hanley, his family and friends, and his vacations and trips both within the United States and abroad.

Karl Bissinger, 1947-2008.
Box 26 Folder F402
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, color photographs, and black and white prints of Bissinger, taken by various people through his life.

Richard Hanley, 1947-1991.
Box 26 Folder F403
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, color photographs, black and white prints, and several color slides of Bissinger's longtime partner, Dick Hanley. Includes one framed photograph taken in France.

Mike (Michael the Briard), circa 1966.
Box 26 Folder F404
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, and December 1966 issue of

The Dew Claw, published by The Briard Club of America.
Westbeth apartment and garden, 1950s-2008.
Box 26 Folder F405
Scope and Contents

Bissinger's home until his death in 2008. Includes negatives, color contact sheets, color photographs, black and white prints, and several color slides. Also includes tearsheets from two articles featuring Bissinger photographs of the apartment kitchen.

Family photographs, circa 1980-1999.
Box 26 Folder F406
Scope and Contents

Includes color negatives, color photographs, and color contact sheets of his son, David Fechheimer, as well as David's wife, Dianne Roxas, and Bissinger's two grandsons, Zachary and Sam.

David's dogs, undated.
Box 26 Folder F407
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and several slides of dogs belonging to Bissinger's son, David, taken during visit to San Francisco.

Bissinger Candy Store, St. Louis, MO, undated.
Box 26 Folder F408
Scope and Contents

Bissinger's family was in the candy business in Cincinnati. Includes negatives.

Stephanie "Stuffy" Chamberlin, 1959-1980.
Box 26 Folder F409
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and two color photographs.

Children of friends, 1956.
Box 26 Folder F410
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print. Series of pictures of Chris Chamberlin (Stephanie's brother) at Fire Island, and formal pictures of the Welle children.

Lucy Guillet, B.K. and Jacques, 1961.
Box 26 Folder F411
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

Friends--miscellaneous, circa 1941-2000.
Box 26 Folder F412
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, prints, and color photographs by and from Bissinger's many friends.

Washington Square Church, circa 1960-1970.
Box 26 Folder F413
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and prints.

Scope and Contents

For many years, Bissinger summered at rented houses on Long Island or in New England, often with friends.

Brookhaven (Hawkins Farm), circa 1950s.
Box 27 Folder F414
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Fire Island, circa 1946-1949.
Box 27 Folder F415
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Truro, Massachusetts.
Box 27 Folder F416
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Maine, 1985.
Box 27 Folder F417
Scope and Contents

Includes color negatives.

Miscellaneous summer trips, 1950-1980.
Box 27 Folder F418
Scope and Contents

Includes assorted negatives and contact sheets.

New York to the Florida Keys, undated.
Box 27 Folder F419
Scope and Contents

Marked as "Series #100." Includes numbered negatives and contact sheets.

Chesapeake Bay, undated.
Box 27 Folder F420
Scope and Contents

Marked as "Series #101." Includes negatives.

Miscellaneous sailing trips, circa 1960-1996.
Box 27 Folder F421
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints of various sailing trips on several different vessels.

Baltimore, Maryland, 1950-1951.
Box 27 Folder F422
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and fragments of contact sheet.

Southeast U.S. and the Caribbean, undated.
Box 27 Folder F423
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Jamaica, undated.
Box 27 Folder F424
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

France, 1990.
Box 27 Folder F425
Scope and Contents

Includes color negatives and color contact sheets.

Italy, 1960s, 1990, 1995, 2003.
Box 27 Folder F426
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, color negatives, color contact sheets, and prints.

Mexico, circa 1970s.
Box 27 Folder F427
Scope and Contents

Includes color negatives.

Morocco, 1989.
Box 27 Folder F428
Scope and Contents

Visited Paul Bowles and stayed in Jane Bowles's old apartment. Includes color negatives, color contact sheet, and a color photograph of Richard Hanley and Paul Bowles standing at a Phoenician grave near Tangiers.

Spain (Ibiza), late 1980s.
Box 27 Folder F429
Scope and Contents

Visited Stephanie Chamberlin ("Stuffy") in Ibiza, Spain. Includes color negatives and color contact sheets.

Miscellaneous trips, circa 1970-1985.
Box 27 Folder F430
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and prints from trips to a variety of locations, including Crete.

Scope and Contents

Slides are stored in original boxes, measuring 3 x 3 x .75 inches, unless otherwise noted.

Interiors, 1979.
Box 28 Folder F431
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of slides.

Garden, 1979.
Box 28 Folder F432
Scope and Contents

Three boxes of slides.

Mike (Michael the Briard), 1967.
Box 28 Folder F433
Scope and Contents

Four boxes of slides.

Brookhaven/Long Island, 1962-1978.
Box 28 Folder F434
Scope and Contents

Two box of slides.

Martha's Vineyard, 1972.
Box 28 Folder F435
Scope and Contents

Three boxes of slides.

New Hampshire, 1974.
Box 28 Folder F436
Scope and Contents

One box of slides.

Sailing trip, 1974.
Box 28 Folder F437
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of slides.

New England, 1975-1978.
Box 28 Folder F438
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of slides.

Maine, 1968.
Box 28 Folder F439
Scope and Contents

One box of slides.

New Orleans, 1973.
Box 28 Folder F440
Scope and Contents

One box of slides.

Vermont, 1963-1964.
Box 28 Folder F441
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of slides.

Bread and Puppet Theatre (Vermont), 1972-1981.
Box 28 Folder F442
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of slides.

Oregon, 1971.
Box 28 Folder F443
Scope and Contents

One box of slides.

Poplar Valley, 1969.
Box 28 Folder F444
Scope and Contents

One box of slides.

Puerto Rico, 1981.
Box 28 Folder F445
Scope and Contents

One box of slides.

Miscellaneous, 1962-1978.
Box 28 Folder F446
Scope and Contents

Six boxes of slides.

Brazil, 1971.
Box 29 Folder F447
Scope and Contents

Five boxes of slides.

California, 1965-1973.
Box 29 Folder F448
Scope and Contents

Ten boxes of slides.

England, 1972-1980.
Box 29 Folder F449
Scope and Contents

Five boxes of slides, with one labeled "Oxford," one labeled "Wales," and one labeled "England/Wales."

France, 1972-1980.
Box 29 Folder F450
Scope and Contents

Sixteen boxes of slides. One box, labeled "Sylvia Braverman," contains slides of her home in France, and one box is labeled "France-Venice."

Ireland, 1969-1972.
Box 29 Folder F451
Scope and Contents

Eleven boxes of slides. Includes one box measuring 4 x 2 x 2 inches.

Slides, undated.
Box 30 Folder F452
Scope and Contents

Contains metal slide box holding 96 metal-bound glass-covered miscellaneous slides.

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes photographs of a variety of places and genres, including architecture, street scenes and cityscapes, and landscapes, whose purpose is not specified. These are nearly all undated and many are not labeled.

Series 506, 1961.
Box 31 Folder F453
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and photographs of unknown couple photographed in several locations.

Boston and Saratoga, undated.
Box 31 Folder F454
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Cincinnati, undated.
Box 31 Folder F455
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives with view of city across the Ohio River.

Southampton, New York, undated.
Box 31 Folder F456
Scope and Contents

One negative and a fragments of contact sheets of the Belcastle estate pool house, designed by J. Edward Elliston in 1911.

Millbrook Estate, New York, 1966.
Box 31 Folder F457
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken during Timothy Leary's occupation of Millbrook. Includes contact sheets and one print.

Oregon commune, undated.
Box 31 Folder F458
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives.

New York City - Barnum Bailey Circus, circa 1950s.
Box 31 Folder F459
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

New York City - city scenes and views, circa 1950s.
Box 31 Folder F460
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

New York City - architectural details, undated.
Box 31 Folder F461
Scope and Contents

Negatives for Anonymous Arts project to make photographic record of architectural ornamentation from demolished buildings.

Architecture, circa 1950s.
Box 31 Folder F462
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Cemeteries and graveyards, undated.
Box 31 Folder F463
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Experimental photography, circa 1950-1970.
Box 31 Folder F464
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Fountains, undated.
Box 31 Folder F465
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Motherwell exhibit, circa 1960s.
Box 31 Folder F466
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Voodoo (Susan Sherman), 1970.
Box 31 Folder F467
Scope and Contents

Includes color slides.

Unidentified locations, undated.
Box 31 Folder F468
Scope and Contents

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes papers and images for Arion Press 2001 publication of translation of Elias Canetti's

The Voices of Marrakesh, featuring photographs by Karl Bissinger.
Paperwork, 2000-2003.
Box 31 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, with Andrew Hoyem, offprints, photocopies, and prospectus from Arion Press.

Negatives, 1949.
Box 31 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Original negatives from Bissinger's 1949 trip to Morocco.

Contact sheets and prints, 1949, circa 2001.
Box 31 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Includes original contact sheets (cut apart into individual images) and modern prints.

Rejected images, circa 1949.
Box 31 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

Includes negative, large-format color negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes contracts, correspondence, papers, proposals, mock-ups and research materials for

The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century by Karl Bissinger, edited by Catherine Johnson (H. Abrams, 2003). See individual entries in Series IV.A. for additional material, including negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Harry Abrams, 2001-2005.
Box 31 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements.

Mock-up for proposed book, 2001.
Box 31 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Contained in three-ring binder.

Binder with images from the book, circa 2003.
Box 32 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs, photocopies and tearsheets with images used in

The Luminous Years.
Copy of book, 2003.
Box 32 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

This working copy of the book originally had contact sheets laid in (see Series V.B. F9), photocopies have been inserted.

Contact sheets, undated.
Box 32 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Originally laid in the book (see Series V.B. F8.)

Photographs of Karl Bissinger and James Baldwin, undated.
Box 32 Folder F10
Catherine Johnson, 2000-2008.
Box 32 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, memos, invoices, and other communications regarding the book project and sales of photographic prints.

Reviews and notices, 2003-2007.
Box 32 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Numerous reviews of the book.

Exhibits, galleries, and photograph sales, 2001-2008.
Box 32 Folder F13
Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973., undated.
Box 33 Folder F14
Alexander, Cris, 1920-, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F15
Avedon, Doe, 1928-, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F16
Avedon, Richard, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F17
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F18
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968, 1951.
Box 33 Folder F19
Bassman, Lillian, 1917-, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F20
Beaurepaire, André, undated.
Box 33 Folder F21
Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981, 1949.
Box 33 Folder F22
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959, circa 1948.
Box 33 Folder F23
Blitzstein, Mark, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F24
Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973, circa 1947.
Box 33 Folder F25
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999, circa 1949.
Box 33 Folder F26
Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978, 1953.
Box 33 Folder F27
Brando, Marlon, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F28
Brennan, Maeve, circa 1948.
Box 33 Folder F29
Brown, Pamela, 1917-1975, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F30
Buka, Donald, undated.
Box 33 Folder F31
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F32
Carmichael, Hoagy, 1899-1981, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F33
Carson, Mindy, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F34
Cela, Camilo Jose, circa 1955.
Box 33 Folder F35
Chaiken, Joseph, undated.
Box 33 Folder F36
Champion, Marge and Gower, circa 1951.
Box 33 Folder F37
Channing, Carol, 1949.
Box 33 Folder F38
Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982, circa 1950s.
Box 33 Folder F39
Clift, Montgomery, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F40
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F41
Colette, 1873-1954, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F42
Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961, 1950.
Box 33 Folder F43
Coy, Walter, undated.
Box 33 Folder F44
Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978, circa 1950s.
Box 33 Folder F45
Crabtree, Paul, undated.
Box 33 Folder F46
Dall, John, 1918-1971, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F47
Davis, Lenya and George, 1951.
Box 33 Folder F48
De Liagre, Alfred, 1904-1987, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F49
De Mille, Agnes, 1947.
Box 33 Folder F50
Deste, Luli, 1950.
Box 33 Folder F51
Dorn, Philip, 1905-1975, undated.
Box 33 Folder F52
Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1950.
Box 33 Folder F53
Ferrer, José, 1912-1992, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F54
Flanner, Janet, 1892-1978, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F55
Fontana Sisters, 1951.
Box 33 Folder F56
Ford, John, 1895-1973, 1950.
Box 33 Folder F57
Francine, Ann, undated.
Box 33 Folder F58
Gershe, Leonard, undated.
Box 33 Folder F59
Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997, circa 1950s.
Box 33 Folder F60
Goeritz, Mathias, 1915-1990, circa 1950s.
Box 33 Folder F61
Gordon, Ruth, 1896-1985, undated.
Box 33 Folder F62
Greco, Jose, circa 1951.
Box 33 Folder F63
Greco, Juliette, 1927-, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F64
Green Pastures, circa 1951.
Box 33 Folder F65
Gross, Chaim, 1951.
Box 33 Folder F66
Guinness, Alec, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F67
Hall, Juanita and Betta St. John, 1949.
Box 33 Folder F68
Harrison, Rex, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F69
Hayter, S. W. (Stanley William), 1901-1988, circa 1950s.
Box 33 Folder F70
Hepburn, Katherine, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F71
Holliday, Judy, circa 1947.
Box 33 Folder F72
Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002, 1948.
Box 33 Folder F73
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F74
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, circa 1950.
Box 33 Folder F75
Jeffries, Ann, undated.
Box 33 Folder F76
Jeffers, Robinson, 1950.
Box 33 Folder F77
Johnson, Buffie, 1949.
Box 34 Folder F78
Johnson, Celia, 1908-1982, circa 1950.
Box 34 Folder F79
Johnston, Denis, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F80
Kantor, Morris, 1896-1974, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F81
Kay, Hershy, undated.
Box 34 Folder F82
Kell, Reginald, 1906-1981, undated.
Box 34 Folder F83
Keller, Greta, undated.
Box 34 Folder F84
Knoll, Florence, 1917-, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F85
Kruger, Otto, 1885-1974, undated.
Box 34 Folder F86
Lam, Wilfredo, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F87
Lean, David, 1908-1991, circa 1950.
Box 34 Folder F88
Lebroquy, Louis, undated.
Box 34 Folder F89
LeClercq, Tanaquil, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F90
Leigh, Dorian, 1917-2008, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F91
Lenya, Lotte, 1951.
Box 34 Folder F92
Lewis, Edna, undated.
Box 34 Folder F93
Lewis, Jerry, 1926-, 1947.
Box 34 Folder F94
Lillie, Beatrice, 1894-1989, 1952.
Box 34 Folder F95
Lippman, Walter, 1889-1974, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F96
Lippold, Richard, 1915-, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F97
Magnani, Anna, 1908-1973, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F98
Mainbocher, 1951.
Box 34 Folder F99
Marais, Jean, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F100
Martin, Dean, 1917-1995, 1947.
Box 34 Folder F101
Martinelli, Sheri, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F102
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967, circa 1950.
Box 34 Folder F103
McLean, Jackie, undated.
Box 34 Folder F104
McNeill, Donald, undated.
Box 34 Folder F105
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-, undated.
Box 34 Folder F106
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F107
Mistinguett, 1951.
Box 34 Folder F108
Molnár, Ferenc, 1878-1952, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F109
Monteleagro, Felicia, undated.
Box 34 Folder F110
Moore, Gar, undated.
Box 34 Folder F111
Morgan, Michèle, 1920-, circa 1950.
Box 34 Folder F112
Mouloudgi, Marcel, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F113
Mulzac, Captain Hugh, undated.
Box 34 Folder F114
Neal, Patricia, 1947.
Box 34 Folder F115
Nicholson, Johnny, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F116
Oppenheimer, Robert, 1904-1967, undated.
Box 34 Folder F117
Orlando, Vittorio, 1949.
Box 34 Folder F118
Owens, Charles, 1947.
Box 34 Folder F119
Parrish, Sister, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F120
Pearson, Beatrice, 1920-, 1947.
Box 34 Folder F121
Peireram, Irene Rice, undated.
Box 34 Folder F122
Picon, Molly, 1898-, circa 1950.
Box 34 Folder F123
Pinza, Ezio, 1949.
Box 34 Folder F124
Potter, Claire, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F125
Prince, William, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F126
Redman, Joyce, 1918-, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F127
Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F128
Roosevelt, Theodora, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F129
Shubert, Lee, 1873?-1953, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F130
Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987, circa 1949.
Box 34 Folder F131
Steinberg, Saul, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F132
Stern, Isaac, 1920-2001, circa 1954.
Box 34 Folder F133
Sterne, Hedda, circa late 1940s.
Box 34 Folder F134
Straight, Beatrice, undated.
Box 34 Folder F135
Sundstrom, Arnold, undated.
Box 34 Folder F136
Tamayo, Rufino, 1899-1991, circa 1952.
Box 34 Folder F137
Touret, Jenny, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F138
Truffaut, François, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F139
Ustinov, Peter, 1953.
Box 34 Folder F140
Varda, Agnès, 1928-, undated.
Box 34 Folder F141
Vargas, Manolo, 1907-1970, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F142
Vidal, Gore (with group), 1949.
Box 34 Folder F143
Vogue Sittings, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F144
Von Sternberg, Josef, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F145
Wannamaker, Sam, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F146
Wayne, John, 1907-1979, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F147
Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966, 1947.
Box 34 Folder F148
Weber, Max, 1950.
Box 34 Folder F149
Welch, Mary, circa 1950s.
Box 34 Folder F150
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983, 1948.
Box 34 Folder F151
Miscellaneous book-related material, 2001.
Box 34 Folder F152
Haiti project, 2003.
Box 32 Folder F153
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, photocopies, and negatives for proposed book of Bissinger photographs of Haiti.

Scope and Contents

This subseries comprises material related to the second Xerox printing in 1998 of Jeanne Owens: Pictorial Biography, compiled and originally published in 1986 by Susanna Cuyler (Highland Park, N.J. : B. Rugged Press). Jeanne (Laupheimer) Owens was a championship swimmer, classmate of Karl Bissinger's at the Art Students League, and bohemian friend who frequented Fire Island with Bissinger and others. The publication includes reproduced photographs from Owens's personal papers and reminiscences from friends, including Karl Bissinger.

Material from Susanna Cuyler, 1986.
Box 32 Folder F154
Videocassette recording of images from the book, 1998.
Folder mss0682_vhs_0005
Physical Location

Removed to SPEC media videocassettes

Scope and Contents

The contact sheets and negatives found in this subseries were created by Catherine Johnson from photographs taken by Bissinger.

Europe, undated.
Box 35 Folder F155
Marches, demonstrations, theater performances, Westbeth and New York, undated.
Box 35 Folder F156
People, New York "4-68", undated.
Box 35 Folder F157
People, New York "69-108", undated.
Box 35 Folder F158

Print, Suggest