Barry Norris interviewed by Alex Harris, 2015
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- Title:
- Barry Norris interviewed by Alex Harris, 2015
- Date:
- 2015
- Creator:
- Harris, Alex
- Contributor:
- Norris, Barry
- Description:
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Oral history recording Alex Harris in conversation with Barry Norris, Gertrude Blom's printer, November 18, 2015. Norris and Harris discuss creating the book, Gertrude Blom: Bearing Witness, Blom's temperament and approach to photography, and Norris's thoughts on digital scanning.
0:00 - Background of book, Gertrude Blom: Bearing Witness.
5:22 - How Barry Norris and Joan Norris became associated with Blom and Na Bolom.
7:00 - Interest in photography and printmaking, early experiences in the profession.
7:40 - Alex Harris's and Margaret Sartor's trips to Na Bolom, for selecting works for book and exhibit at ICP.
8:11 - Blom's photographic equipment.
9:18 - Blom's knowledge of photographic technique, and her methodology.
11:24 - Norris's printmaking technique and approach with Blom's photographs.
15:31 - The "artifice" of representing Blom's work in the book, through the collaboration.
18:48 - Blom's life and personality, her place in the Norris's lives.
22:11 - Blom's personality and ambitions, how she affected Norris's and Harris's lives.
24:25 - Realization by Norris that much of his work has been about bringing Blom's work to the public.
25:48 - Making prints for book, their tonality, the paper and chemistry behind them.
27:44 - Discussion of digital scanning of negatives; Ansel Adams's zone system as it applies to digital scanning; importance of intuition and aesthetic regardless of technology.
39:36 - How Blom's photography changed over the years, how she evolved, her self-perception as a photographer.
43:42 - Discussion of Blom as an impassioned fighter, what she thought of as failures and successes.
- Subject:
- Blom, Gertrude Duby
- Format:
- Language:
- English
- Digital Collection:
- Gertrude Duby Blom exhibit photographs
- Source Collection:
- Gertrude Duby Blom exhibit photographs and project records
- Rights:
- No Re-UseIn Copyright
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- This material is made available for research, scholarship, and private study. Copyright in this material has not been transferred to Duke University. For reuses of this material beyond those permitted by fair use or otherwise allowed under the Copyright Act, please see our page on copyright and citations https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/citations-and-permissions.
- Identifier:
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- 005969708
- 5e9369b2c7607dd17e70255c1611cdd0
- blomgertrude
- duke:658595
- RL10084-WAV-0001
- ark:/87924/r4542pn6f
- 07b397d7-a078-401a-9d46-e0ade795a385
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- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4542pn6f
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