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Date
1965
Description
A black and white photograph of two individuals performing "Synthesis I" at the 1965 Bang Arts Festival at the Richmond Professional Institute. Details of the performance can be read in the April 23, 1965 edition of the student newspaper Proscript available here. The individual in the center is laying on a beach chair and is wearing a bathing suit, black wig, and sunglasses. Another individual is laying on a beach chair to their right. From back of photograph: "Scenes from: "Synthesis I" - Bang festival - April 1965" From the sheet protector containing the photograph: "Emmet Gowin may have made all of these photos of "Synthesis I" - He did say he made the one reproduced in the Carlyon Catalog. I have no confirmation on these [illegible signature]"
Corporate Name Subject
Richmond Professional Institute
Topical Subject
Arts festivals; Performing arts festivals; Art in universities and colleges; Art, American -- 20th century -- History; College students' art; Theater; College theater
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
black-and-white photographs
Local Genre
photograph
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Bang Arts Festival, Richmond Professional Institute, 1964-1967
Source
Synthesis I Photograph, Bang Arts Festival 1965, Richard Carlyon Papers, Accession 2016.07.150, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
M442_b01_i010.jpg