Claire: The camera is a Concord MTC-11, a relatively cheap and compact B&W video camera. Mostly used for surveillance. Warhol used one in August, 1965 when Norelco lent him a videotape recorder (in addition to the Norelco camera).
He apparently carried it around as a fetish object/prop, since in most of these situations the camera wasn’t attached to a recorder or even a monitor. You can see it (with a Switar lens instead of the Canon 25-100 zoom shown in this photo) at a Beatles press conference in 1965 (misidentified as 1964 by Getty). It’s mentioned in a couple of books about Warhol, and IIRC also mentions it in the October, 1965 article in “Tape Recording” magazine. Blake Gopnik and Greg Pierce asked me about it last year, but apparently for a different book. Jeff Kreines Kinetta j...@kinetta.com kinetta.com > On Dec 11, 2019, at 3:03 PM, Claire Henry, Curatorial > <claire_he...@whitney.org> wrote: > > Ack, here’s the link. Apologies! > > Claire > > > https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Burt-Glinn/1965/USA-NYC-Andy-WARHOL-Edie-SEDGWICK-and-Chuck-WEIN-NN112607.html > > <https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Burt-Glinn/1965/USA-NYC-Andy-WARHOL-Edie-SEDGWICK-and-Chuck-WEIN-NN112607.html> > > > From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of > Claire Henry, Curatorial > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:00 PM > To: Experimental Film Discussion List (frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com) > <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> > Cc: Jessica Palinski, Curatorial <jessica_palin...@whitney.org> > Subject: [Frameworks] Camera question > > Hi Frameworkers! > > We need some help identifying a camera in a photo of Warhol for our catalogue > raisonné. Does anyone know what kind of camera Warhol is holding in these > photos by Burt Glinn from 1965? I’m thinking Super 8, but am unsure. If > anyone could provide any help that would be amazing and very welcomed. > > > Thanks! > > Claire > > > Claire K. Henry > Assistant Curator > The Andy Warhol Film Project > Whitney Museum of American Art > 99 Gansevoort Street > New York, NY 10014 > Tel: 212 570 7740 > Fax: 212 929 2019 > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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