Authors

Emmet Gowin

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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

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.

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M442_b01_i010.jpg

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