Oral history interview with Diana Crane
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Crane, Diana, 1946-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Adams, Mark, 1925-2006
label: Names
content: Berggruen, John Henry, 1943-
label: Names
content: Cook, Gordon
label: Names
content: Farr, Charles Griffin, 1908-1984
label: Names
content: Thiebaud, Wayne
label: Names
content: Van Hoesen, Beth, 1926-2010
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Artists' models -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Nude in art
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Crane, Diana, 1946-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Diana Crane (1946-) is a photographer and artist's model from San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 57 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 April 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.crane83
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Diana Crane conducted 1983 April 12, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Crane speaks of her background and education; the beginning of her career as an artist's model; her interests in filmmaking and xerography; living and working in Aspen, Colorado, Sun Valley, Idaho, Rochester, New York, and San Francisco, California; her education; posing for Mark Adams, Beth Van Hoesen, Wayne Thiebaud, William Theoophilus Brown, Gordon Cook, and Charles Griffin Farr; modeling for art classes versus artists; the effect of her work upon her personal life; her self-portraiture; her photographic work. She recalls working with photographers Leslie Krims, Ruth Bernhard and Cherie Hiser.