Oral history interview with Judy Dater
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Dater, Judy
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Welpott, Jack, 1923-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California
label: Occupation
content: Artists' models -- California
label: Topic
content: Feminists
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content: Women artists
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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 administrators. Funding provided by Bente and Gerald E. Buck Collection.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Dater, Judy
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Judy Dater (1941- ) is a photographer and photography model from Berkeley, California. Among Dater's best-known images is one of Imogen Cunningham photographing Twinka Thiebaud, Wayne Theibaud's daughter, at a field workshop in Yosemite. Dater also posed for Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, Ruth Bernhard, and, as a graduate student at San Francisco State University, her teacher and husband-to-be, Jack Welpott.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 29 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 June 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dater00
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Judy Dater conducted 2000 June 2, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art,
label: Scope and Contents
content: The interview took place in Dater's home, Berkeley, California. Dater focuses on her experiences photographing the nude. Dater discusses the early influence on her of Thomas Hart Benton's "Persephone," a work that she says affected her on an emotional level; how voyeurism depicted informs "looking," a basic activity of the photographer and of many other artists; her collaboration with husband, Jack Welpott, working from the same nude model, and the differences in their objectives; her main interest is human energy, male or female; finding it easier to work with women; her feminism in connection with the subject of the nude and issues of power that arise.