Oral history interview with Hans Namuth
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 5 min.
label: General
content: Partially transcribed. August 12 and September 8 sessions are transcribed; September 14 session is not transcribed.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Namuth, Hans
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Filmmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Namuth, Hans
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hans Namuth (1915 -1990) was a photographer and a filmmaker from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 Aug. 12-Sept. 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.namuth71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Hans Namuth conducted 1971 Aug. 12-Sept. 8, by Paul Cummings, at the artist's studio in New York, N.Y., for the Archives of American Art. Namuth speaks of his youth in Germany; the effects of Nazism on him and his family; living in Paris and Spain after leaving Germany; his first involvement with photography; living in a refugee camp; moving to New York in 1941 and working as a photographer; his activities in military intelligence during World War II; meeting Jackson Pollock in 1949 and making a film about him; and working in architectural photography.