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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.- Boxes 1-3; 33-34: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons
- Boxes 4-27; 31-32: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons (6 inches)
- Boxes 28-30: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes (3 inch)
- Boxes 35-37: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (15 inches)
- Box 38: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches)
- Box 39: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (18 inches)
- Box 40: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC Media discs
- 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.
People
- Bissinger, Karl
- Paley, Grace
- Lewis, Edna
- Nicholson, John, 1916-2016
- Owens, Jeanne
- Hanley, Richard
- Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994. Stimmen von Marrakesch. English
- Bissinger, Karl. Luminous years
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980
- Di Prima, Diane
- Rorem, Ned, 1923-
- Martinelli, Sheri
- Beck, Julian, 1925-1985
- Campbell, Sandy
- Windham, Donald
- Gregg, Linda
- Malina, Judith, 1926-2015
- Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003
Organization
- Domestic Resurrection Circus
- Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
- Open Theater
- Paul Taylor Dance Company
- Cafe Nicholson
- War Resisters League
Subject
- Photography--United States--History--20th century
- Peace movements--United States--History--20th century
- Portraits--20th century
- Travel photography--History--20th century
- Fashion photography--History--20th century
- Theater--United States--History--20th century
- Westbeth Artists' Housing (New York, N.Y.)
Place
- Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century
- France--Description and travel
- Cuba--Description and travel
- Morocco--Description and travel
- Italy--Description and travel
- Spain--Description and travel
Occupation
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2014 June 23
- Access Restrictions
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- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
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.
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.
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 Description110 pp.
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 Description37 pp.
The mostly blank notebook has a few telephone numbers and financial notes regarding bank accounts.
Physical Description3 pp.
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 Description7 pp.
Financial notes by Bissinger, with a few notes and telephone numbers.
Physical Description27 pp.
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 Description58 pp.
Includes contact information, reminder and appointment notes, travel itineraries, and other brief notes on scrap paper and envelopes.
Brief notes on a trip, contact information, and laid in ticket stubs for transportation.
Physical Description9 pp.
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 Description26 pp.
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 Description24 pp.
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 Description27 pp.
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 Description8 pp.
Drafts of a story written by Karl Bissinger.
Artwork for
Toppy.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.
Bissinger's son. Includes several articles about Fechheimer and one review written by him.
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.Letters from Bissinger's life partner.
Articles, notes, and drawings related to Hanley and patterns created by Hanley.
Includes an undated letter to Bissinger, a photograph taken by Rukeyser in 1975, plus an article and obituary.
Includes a McCune letter and IOU to Bissinger, letters to McCune from Hungarian costume designer Marcel Vertes, George Davis and Lotte Lenya.
One letter to McCune from Tennessee Williams and drafts of McCune's letters written to Williams in 1957 regarding his voluntary hospitalization.
Photocopies of letters regarding Chaikin's response to Israel's sale of arms to South Africa in 1976.
One regarding Westbeth, with a petition signed by Muriel Rukeyser, among others.
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.
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.
Includes letters from Millicent Dillon, Sylvia Braverman, Sandy Campbell, Donald Windham, and Paul Bowles (1989).
Includes letters from Norman Rush, Sandy Broyard, and Sam Abrams.
Includes a letter from Helene Aylon.
Includes a manuscript by Kirsten Lee Soares and letter from Scott Peacock (Edna Lewis).
Includes two letters from Diane di Prima, one letter from Grace Paley, and three poems by Linda Gregg.
Letters in response to the death of Richard Hanley.
Letters in response to the death of Richard Hanley, including one from Grace Paley.
Account sheets for theater tickets.
Includes images of Ireland, Spain, artwork, and Westbeth.
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.
Includes passport used to visit Cuba through Mexico.
Physical Description3 items
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.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.
Bissinger was an active participant in the Westbeth community. Includes newsletters, minutes of council meetings, articles and printed material about Westbeth.
Includes maps, menus, drawings, tearsheets, clippings, articles, and programs.
Original collage with a handwritten note by Bissinger.
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.Includes three decks of playing cards, three matchbooks, one small sewing kit, and two buttons.
Shelved in SPEC Media discs
Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes
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Shelved in SPEC Media videocassettes
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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.
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.
Statement written by Bissinger and others in support of burning draft cards.
Includes a signed piece of artwork by Ira Cohen (1997) and three posters titled
Art for WRL.Karl Bissinger was honored for his work with the War Resisters League. Two copies of the publication.
This Vietnam docu-drama is dedicated to Karl Bissinger.
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.
Calendar worked on by Grace Paley.
Art direction and selection by Bissinger and Hanley.
The calendar was written by Grace Paley with paintings by Vera B. Williams.
A recipe by Bissinger is included.
Introduction by Coretta Scott King.
The calendar is a written and photographic history of the War Resisters League.
2 copies.
2 copies.
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.
Includes a letter from Rudolph W. Giuliani (1977) when he has Acting Deputy Attorney General.
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.
Two copies of a pamphlet announcing a demonstration in Moscow (in Russian).
Reprint of article by George Lakey from
WIN magazine.Includes two copies of
Peacemeal, a cook book from the Greenwich Village Peace Center, with introduction by Grace Paley.Nine issues of a publication of the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.
Thirteen issues of a publication of the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.
Written by Arthur Harvey.
Reprint from
Liberation of an article written by Carl Oglesby.Poster which includes a list of the participants and sponsors.
Anti-war/peace material published by the American Friends, Clergy & Laity Concerned, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the A. J. Muste Memorial Institute.
Include articles on Vietnam, the war on terror and other political topics.
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.
Computer generated copies of photographs with an email from Lisa Miller.
Anthology which includes Paley's story
the long-distance runnerGrace Paley issue of the journal.
Special publication of the War Resisters League in New York honoring Grace Paley on her sixty-fifth birthday.
Includes an issue of
UR University Review .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.Hoagy Carmichael, Philip Dorn, Ann Jeffreys, Cris Alexander, Beatrice Pearson, Patricia Neal, Mary Welch, Frances Reid, June Duprez.
Otto Kruger and daughter Ottilie; Moses Soyer studio.
Juanita Hall and Betta St. John, Robert Lewis Shayon, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Marge and Gower Champion, Elena Nikolaidi, Elizabeth Montgomery (costume designer).
Bissinger was staff photographer for
Flair for its entire run.Includes Gore Vidal group photograph at Café Nicholson, photographs of Duke and Duchess Windsor in Paris, and Morocco travel photographs.
Includes Max Weber, Manolo Vargas, Spain travel photographs.
Includes Mouloudji, Juliette Greco, Denise de Rotival Davey, Collete, American businessmen in Paris, and French church art in Vermont.
Includes jazz at Princeton, Stanford University and Northwestern University students.
Includes Washington, D.C., personalities.
Ferenc Molnar, photographs of Paris, Jean Cocteau, Mistinguette, and Michele Morgan.
Jean Renoir.
Jose Greco.
Bobby Jones at the Masters golf tournament.
James Gould Cozzens.
Photographer for Living Theatre during European tour. Cover is from
The Apple.Photograph from Living Theatre production of
The Brig.Bissinger was staff photographer for entire first run.
Includes multiple copies of issues.
Includes Bissinger photos published in previous issues.
Book jackets from several editions of Bowles's biography with Bissinger photograph of Jane Bowles.
Japanese articles on Paul and Jane Bowles that include Bissinger photographs.
Group photograph of Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Buffie Johnson, Donald Windham, and Tanaquil Le Clercq, at the Café Nicholson.
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.
Cover includes Bissinger photograph of Jane Bowles.
Bissinger photograph of Maeve Brennan on cover of catalog.
Includes newspaper articles, magazine articles, tear sheets, and galley proofs.
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.
Newspaper article Bissinger wrote about Saul Gottlieb, published in
The Village Voice.Bissinger interviewed by George Plimpton for article on Truman Capote.
Originally interviewed by Michael Maronna in 1995. Excerpt published in 2005 for the War Resisters League dinner honoring Karl Bissinger and Ralph DiGia.
Includes 2006 Legends of the Village calendar, which featured Bissinger in April.
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.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.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.
Includes article by Julian Beck.
Debut of film of the Living Theatre's 1963 production of
The BrigIncludes an interview with Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theatre, and an interview with Joseph Chaikin
Includes several articles on the Bread and Puppet Theatre, including one by Peter Schumann.
Interview with Joseph Chaikin about announced disbanding of the Open Theatre.
Performance at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union, New York, featuring scenes from Living Theatre productions 1951-1983.
Program from 40th anniversary celebration benefit for Living Theatre, held at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York.
Includes an interview with Brenda Dixon about her time with Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre.
Program for
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Theatre on the Square.Incomplete article about the Living Theatre's reprise of
The Brig.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.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.
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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).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.Photographed in New York while directing
High Button Shoes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one large format color transparency. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Photographed in New York while appearing in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Includes negatives, large format negatives, contact sheets and prints.Includes contact sheets and prints. Negatives available in Series V.B.
Photographed with Ossie Davis, Orson Bean, and an unidentified actress, for Theater People for Peace. Includes negatives and one print.
Photographed in New York while appearing in Noel Coward's
Present Laughter. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.Includes negatives.
One print.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Photographed with husband Richard Avedon and with Leonard Gershe. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Photographed at Polo Grounds, watching Giants with jazz musician Joe Bushkin. Includes three contact sheets and one print.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes photograph with Richard Avedon. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes contact sheets and prints.
Two prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Includes negatives, one black and white slide, and portion of contact sheet.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes photographs of his son, Gaetano. Photographed at his home in Catania, Sicily. Also includes contact sheets.
Includes large format negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at I Tatti, Berenson's villa outside Florence. Includes two small prints, one large print, and a single image from a contact sheet.
Photographed performing Bettis choreography for
As I Lay Dying. Includes contacts from large format negatives, and prints.Photographed in Morocco. Includes negatives, parts of a contact sheet, and one print.
Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives and contact sheets containing photographs of unidentified woman.
Photographed at home in Palermo, Sicily. Includes negative, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives, one large format negative, contact sheets, and prints for both Jane and Paul Bowles. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Photographed in the library of the French Research Foundation, which he established in California. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
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.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and contact sheet. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives.
Includes negatives and two 11 x 14 contact sheets.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.
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.
Photographed at Café Nicholson while in costume for her role in
The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at the Radio Theatre in Chicago. Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Photographed at her home near Havana, Cuba. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
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.Photographed with artist Charles Owens and editor Jean Lavender. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes contact sheets and one print.
Includes large format negatives and two prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
One print.
Photographed in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in Catania, Sicily. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and prints.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York while starring in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Includes large-format negatives and prints.Photographed while performing in the Living Theatre production of
The Apple. Fragments of contact sheets. For additional images, see Series IV.A.Photographed in dressing room while performing in
Light Up The Sky. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.Photographed in Hollywood with Michèle Morgan. Three prints. For additional images, see Series IV.A.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and two prints.
Photographed on streets of New York City. Includes numerous negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Contact sheets also available in Series V.B.
Photographed in Paris on the set of
Les Parents terribles, along with Josette Day and Gabrielle Dorziat. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.Photographed in her Paris apartment. Includes negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed at home in Brentwood, California. Fragments of contact sheet and one print.
Includes negatives.
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.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes contact sheets and prints.
Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives.
Photographed at various locations in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York during run of
The Druid Circle. Includes negatives and contact sheets.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.Includes negatives and newspaper clipping of photograph.
Photographed in New York. Includes negatives and large-format negatives.
Photographed in New York. Two prints.
Photographed at Millbrook estate during Timothy Leary occupation. Includes negatives.
Photographed in New York while performing in
The Big Two. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed in New York while performing in
The Druid Circle. Includes negatives.Includes one contact sheet and two prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed in New York while performing in
Man and Superman. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed in New York while performing in
High Button Shoes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
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.Photographed at Park Avenue Armory in New York. Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Photographed in their atelier, with Nelly Corradi modeling several dresses. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.
Photographed in New York while performing in
Another Part of the Forest. Includes contact sheets.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.Includes numerous negatives.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and one fragmented contact sheet.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and two prints.
Photographed in New York while performing in
Life With Father. Includes negatives and two contact sheets.Photographed at Bissinger's kitchen table. Includes negatives and prints.
Includes negatives of a man who may be American comedian Jackie Gleason.
Photographed in Mexico City, Mexico. Includes negatives and prints.
Includes negatives.
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.Photographed with poet David Henderson on street in New York. Gottlieb's wife, Odda, is in background. Includes three prints.
Photographed performing in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in Paris with friend, poet Anne-Marie Cazalis. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in studio. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints, with some images of Stanley Hayter and Irene Rice Pereira.
Photographed at house in Hammersmith, London. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in costume for roles in original cast of
South Pacific. Includes negatives.Photographed at Bissinger's kitchen table. Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Includes prints.
Photographed on stage with Joyce Redman in
Ann of the Thousand Days. Includes negatives and prints. See Series IV.A. for contact sheets.Photographed in New York during run of
High Button Shoes. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed in New York during run of
Carousel. Includes negatives and contact sheet.Photographed at villa in Taormina, Sicily. Includes cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives, one print, and one contact sheet with several images of Irene Rice Pereira.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes prints.
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.
Photographed in New York while appearing in
Born Yesterday. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes contact sheet and print.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York while appearing in
A Streetcar Named Desire. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Photographed at Santa Monica, California. Includes negatives, contact sheets and prints.
Photographed at Café Nicholson. One print.
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.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York while performing in
Burlesque. Includes contact sheets.Includes negatives and contact sheets. Bissinger also photographed the Jessup family, individually and as a group, on several occasions.
Photograph in front of mirror in 1949, and later with her painting,
Labrys (1972). Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed in London. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York during production of his play
The Old Lady Says "No!". Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed in costume in Central Park. Includes negatives, contact sheets, prints, and color slides.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed in his studio in Union Square. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes several photographs on Spanish Steps in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at Knoll Associates showroom. Includes large-format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and one print. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Photographed with his daughter Ottilie, who was appearing with him on Broadway. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Photographed at his studio in Havana, Cuba. Includes negatives. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Photographed in London outside his mews studio. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in London. Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and one print.
Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
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.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives and prints.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed in New York during run of
Mister Roberts. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Some photographs with Grace Paley. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
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.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.
Photographed in his New York atelier. Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Photographed in performance as "Clara." Includes negatives and prints.
Photographed in Paris on the set of
Les Parents terribles. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.Includes negatives and two large-format negatives.
Photographed in several New York locales. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and negatives.
Photographed at Nyack, New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives.
Photographed with one of his paintings. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in Sicily. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives, color negatives, and one color print,
Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes cut-up contact sheet.
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.
Photographed in Sicily with architect Sebastiano Inserra and with son Alberto. Includes cut-up contact sheets.
Photographed in her dressing room at the Club Tropicana, New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed at Plaza Hotel, New York. Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and two prints.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Photographed in Hollywood, with Sarah Churchill. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed backstage. Includes negatives
Photographed in Taormina, Sicily. Includes cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and print.
Photographed on streets of Paris. Includes negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Photographed while performing in
The Respectful Prostitute. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.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.
Includes negatives and contact sheet.
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.Photographed in New York. Includes contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives.
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.
Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives, prints, and 1965 article with Bissinger photo of Odetta.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes contact sheets.
Photographed in Morocco and New York. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes contact sheets.
Photographed in Palermo, Sicily. Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Photographed with model wearing Toni Owen dress. Includes negatives.
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.
Photographed at various locations in New York City and Fire Island. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed in her home. Includes large-format negatives.
Photographed during run of
Born Yesterday. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives and one print.
Photographed in New York while appearing in
The Voice of the Turtle. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed during run of
Years Ago. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed with students at Mills College, California. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed during run of
Summer and Smoke. Includes negatives and prints.See Series V.B.
Photographed in dressing room while starring in
South Pacific. Includes negatives and one print.Photographed at the Guggenheim Museum and other New York locations. Includes negatives.
Includes large-format negatives.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
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.Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes large format negatives.
Photographed while substituting for Judy Holliday in
Born Yesterday. Includes contact sheets.Includes negatives.
Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at Washington Square Methodist Church. Includes negative and print.
Photographed in Venice. Includes negatives and prints.
Includes negatives and newspaper clipping of photograph, dated November 7, 1971.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed during run of
Call Me Mister. Includes contact sheets.Includes negatives and two prints.
Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets. Also includes photographs of her brother, Richard Domerico.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at studio in New York with fashion models. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in Bissinger's Westbeth rooftop garden. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at her home in New York. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed with several of her paintings. Includes negatives and prints.
Photographed during run of
Man and Superman. Includes negatives and contact sheets.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.
Photographed in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and print.
Photographed in Spain with her El Greco painting. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheet, and prints.
Includes contact sheets.
Photographed in New York during run of
The Love of Four Colonels, written by Ustinov. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes negatives.
Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at Café Nicholson with Tennessee Williams, Buffy Johnson, Donald Windham, and Tanaquil Le Clercq. Includes large-format negatives and prints.
Photographed at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and prints.
Photographed with Johnny Beauchamp. Includes negatives.
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.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives, contact sheet, and prints.
Photographed at Republic Pictures with director John Ford. Includes cut-cup contact sheets and prints.
Photographed in New York while starring in
Present Laughter. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed at piano, and with Francis Thorne. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Photographed in studio at Great Neck, Long Island. Includes large-format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Photographed during run of
Cyrano de Bergerac. Includes negatives and contact sheet.Photographed in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York during run of
Medea. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Photographed while appearing in
Command Decision. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print. Negatives also available in Series V.B.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Photographed at home in Paris. Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints. See Series IV.B. for color transparencies of their Paris home.
Photographed during run of
Lady Windermere's Fan. Includes negatives and contact sheets.Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
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.Photographed at Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City. One print.
Bissinger recorded each
Flair assignment by job number and often added short descriptions of his subjects.Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheet.
Includes large-format negatives and two prints.
Listed on job envelope as "Denise Duval." Includes large-format negatives.
Bissinger's West Coast trip combined several different assignments that are listed separately by subject.
The Arensberg collection was photographed in situ at the Arensbergs' California home. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negative and large-format negatives.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.
Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.
Photographed several individuals, including a child.
Photographed the campus, the Student Union and retired English professor, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, who was teacher, mentor, and friend of John Steinbeck.
Includes negatives and large-format negatives.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Bissinger's trip through the upper Midwest, including Chicago and Minnesota.
Includes negatives.
Photographed at University of Minnesota; includes photographs of Tillman Breiseth and Eleanor Rund. Also includes negatives and large-format negatives.
Includes contact sheet.
Small dog photographed on streets of New York wearing a Maximilian sable coat. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes large-format negatives and one print.
Includes negatives and fragments of contact sheets.
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."
Includes negatives.
One print.
Photographed in New York. Includes negative and fragments of contact sheet.
Includes large format negatives.
Includes large format color transparencies of interiors from the Windsors' Paris home. See also Series IV.A. for other photographs from this job.
Edited by Fleur Cowles.
Photographs of John O'Shaughnessy, director of
Command Decision, and Harold Young, director of The First Mrs. Fraser. Includes contact sheets and negatives.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.
Photographed at the 1952 Masters golf tournament, held annually in Augusta, Georgia, along with Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and other notable figures. Includes negatives.
Photographed architecture and people at various Kentucky thoroughbred horse farms. Includes negatives.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print, for several different
Vogue photo shoots.Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
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.No job number.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes program from the performance, and a paste-up of the page.
Contact sheets that have been cut or torn apart.
Photographed various locations in Paris; other locations photographed include Chartres, Neuilly, Perpignon, Saint-Remy, Marseilles, Saint-Tropez, and Monte Carlo.
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.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.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Small prints of Greek temples.
Photographed a young Roman director, American actress Jane White, and Italian-American painter Nicolas Carone. Includes contact sheets.
Photographed festival in Siena. Includes negatives.
Photographed festival gathering of gondolas in Venice.
Many Bissinger photographs of Sicily and its inhabitants featured in
Flair.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.
Mainly architecture. Includes cut-up contact sheets.
Bissinger photographed at various locations in Catania, including the Borghese palace, and also photographed the Archbishop of Catania. Includes contact sheets and some negatives.
Photographed famed puppets of Catania. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and one print.
Mainly photographs of the monastery, church, and harbor. Includes contact sheets.
Mainly city scenes and architecture. Includes cut-up contact sheets.
Photographed street scenes, views of Mt. Etna, and group of tarantella dancers in costume. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and one print.
Includes fragments of contact sheet of unnamed Sicilian painter.
Includes contact sheets, negatives, and two prints.
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.Includes contact sheets and prints from various locales in Italy, including Florence, Frascati, and Ischia.
Numerous negatives from Job 63 with original envelopes.
Two prints
Includes cut-up contact sheets and negatives.
Mainly photographs of Sultan's and Pasha's dancers in the palace. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and one large-format color transparency.
Mainly photographs of dancers. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and three prints.
Photographed the Reserved Quarters in Meknes, Marrakesh, and Fez. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and two prints.
Photographs of tanning vats, dyers, barbers, and even a Moroccan "drugstore." Includes cut-up contact sheets and negatives.
Photographs of landscapes, architecture, and street scenes. Includes cut-up contact sheets, negatives, and three prints.
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.Empty envelopes with many handwritten notations about subject matter. Negatives had previously been removed for use in book project. See also Series V.B.
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.Photographed in Granada for September 1948 issue of
Harper's Bazaar. Includes negatives, contact sheets, prints, and tear sheet of article.Photographed at home and in bull ring. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Photographed architecture, street scenes, and cityscapes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
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.Unless otherwise noted, photographs of Living Theatre productions were taken during the group's European tour.
Includes negatives and two prints. Also includes a color photograph of Niles Anderson and Shanti Duraux, who performed in the 2001 revival.
Featuring Judith Malina and Joseph Chaikin. Includes one print.
Features Judith Malina, Julian Beck, and "Ahmed." Includes two prints.
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.
Featuring Judith Malina and Joseph Chaikin. Includes four prints.
Includes one negative, three contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives and one print. Also includes review from January 20, 1966, issue of
The Village Voice with Bissinger photograph.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.Includes contact sheets and prints.
Includes negatives.
Photographed William Marshall in the role of God. Includes negatives and one print.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints from several unidentified productions.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also include a flyer for the performance, featuring photograph by Bissinger.
Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives.
Film directed by Jonas Mekas. Bissinger served as cinematographer for the movie and documented the entire shoot in photographs.
Bissinger numbered the negatives and kept them in order by week.
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.
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.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes photographs of Bissinger participating in protests and marches.
Includes contact sheets and prints.
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.
Includes contact sheets and prints.
Includes negatives.
Bissinger photographed at several schools in Manhattan for The Urban League and other organizations.
School for vision-impaired children. Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and several prints.
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.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives.
Includes contact sheets and prints.
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.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, color photographs, and black and white prints of Bissinger, taken by various people through his life.
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.
Includes negatives, and December 1966 issue of
The Dew Claw, published by The Briard Club of America.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.
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.
Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and several slides of dogs belonging to Bissinger's son, David, taken during visit to San Francisco.
Bissinger's family was in the candy business in Cincinnati. Includes negatives.
Includes negatives and two color photographs.
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.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives, prints, and color photographs by and from Bissinger's many friends.
Includes negatives and prints.
For many years, Bissinger summered at rented houses on Long Island or in New England, often with friends.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes color negatives.
Includes assorted negatives and contact sheets.
Marked as "Series #100." Includes numbered negatives and contact sheets.
Marked as "Series #101." Includes negatives.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints of various sailing trips on several different vessels.
Includes negatives and fragments of contact sheet.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives.
Includes color negatives and color contact sheets.
Includes negatives, color negatives, color contact sheets, and prints.
Includes color negatives.
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.
Visited Stephanie Chamberlin ("Stuffy") in Ibiza, Spain. Includes color negatives and color contact sheets.
Includes negatives and prints from trips to a variety of locations, including Crete.
Slides are stored in original boxes, measuring 3 x 3 x .75 inches, unless otherwise noted.
Two boxes of slides.
Three boxes of slides.
Four boxes of slides.
Two box of slides.
Three boxes of slides.
One box of slides.
Two boxes of slides.
Two boxes of slides.
One box of slides.
One box of slides.
Two boxes of slides.
Two boxes of slides.
One box of slides.
One box of slides.
One box of slides.
Six boxes of slides.
Five boxes of slides.
Ten boxes of slides.
Five boxes of slides, with one labeled "Oxford," one labeled "Wales," and one labeled "England/Wales."
Sixteen boxes of slides. One box, labeled "Sylvia Braverman," contains slides of her home in France, and one box is labeled "France-Venice."
Eleven boxes of slides. Includes one box measuring 4 x 2 x 2 inches.
Contains metal slide box holding 96 metal-bound glass-covered miscellaneous slides.
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.
Includes negatives and photographs of unknown couple photographed in several locations.
Includes negatives and contact sheet.
Includes negatives with view of city across the Ohio River.
One negative and a fragments of contact sheets of the Belcastle estate pool house, designed by J. Edward Elliston in 1911.
Photographs taken during Timothy Leary's occupation of Millbrook. Includes contact sheets and one print.
Includes negatives.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Negatives for Anonymous Arts project to make photographic record of architectural ornamentation from demolished buildings.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
Includes negatives and one contact sheet.
Includes color slides.
Includes negatives and contact sheets.
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.Includes correspondence, with Andrew Hoyem, offprints, photocopies, and prospectus from Arion Press.
Original negatives from Bissinger's 1949 trip to Morocco.
Includes original contact sheets (cut apart into individual images) and modern prints.
Includes negative, large-format color negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.
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.Includes correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements.
Contained in three-ring binder.
Includes photographs, photocopies and tearsheets with images used in
The Luminous Years.This working copy of the book originally had contact sheets laid in (see Series V.B. F9), photocopies have been inserted.
Originally laid in the book (see Series V.B. F8.)
Includes correspondence, memos, invoices, and other communications regarding the book project and sales of photographic prints.
Numerous reviews of the book.
Includes correspondence, photocopies, and negatives for proposed book of Bissinger photographs of Haiti.
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.
Removed to SPEC media videocassettes
The contact sheets and negatives found in this subseries were created by Catherine Johnson from photographs taken by Bissinger.