Oral history interview with Elia Alba
name: label: Interviewee
content: Alba, Elia
label: Interviewer
content: Reisman, Sara
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Multimedia artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Alba, Elia
label: Interviewer
content: Reisman, Sara
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elia Alba (1962- ) is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Queens, New York. Known for her work that engages with questions of institutional acclaim, identity, building community across generations, Alba creates larger projects that draw on a variety of media to examine the historical power of the image.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Sara Reisman (1972- ) is a curator and art historian based in New York City.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Items (sound files (2 hrs.,14 min.), digital, wav)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Tascam DR-100MKIII 18Z0355
unitdate: label: Date
content: 29 September 2023
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.alba23
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Elia Alba conducted 29 September 2023, by Sara Reisman for the Archives of American Art, at Archives of American Art research center in New York, New York.­