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Oral history interview with Austin Hansen

Title
  1. Oral history interview with Austin Hansen / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Published by
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
Author
  1. Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996

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Additional authors
  1. Murray, James Briggs
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
  1. 4 videodiscs (82 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Austin Hansen discusses his life and career as a photographer; family and childhood in St. Thomas; introduction to photography; first camera and professional photographs; arrival in U.S. in 1928; interest in Statue of Liberty; attempt to sell photos to Daily News; various jobs held; musical gigs; start as a professional photographer; work for churches; brother Aubrey; incidents photographed in Harlem; drafted into Navy during WWII; duties in Navy; race relations; illness and disability discharge; Office of War Information; employed by Amsterdam News; studio and work done there; views of photographs; painting b&w photos, print-on color film; more photos; (4) darkroom where negatives developed; working methods; kitchen and dryer for glossy prints; more photographs; darkroom for developing prints; tintype and restored copy.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subject
  1. African American photographers > Interviews
  2. Oral histories
  3. Photography > Studios and darkrooms
  4. United States > Race relations
  5. Photography > Processing
  6. Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996 > Interviews
  7. United States > Navy > African Americans
  8. Hansen, Austin > Childhood and youth
  9. Filmed interviews
Genre/Form
  1. Interviews.
  2. Oral histories.
  3. Nonfiction films.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1348
Terms of use (note)
  1. Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  1. Austin Hansen is a photographer in Harlem.
Author
  1. Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996, interviewee.
Title
  1. Oral history interview with Austin Hansen / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Publisher
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file DVD
Performer
  1. Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
Event
  1. Recorded August 6, 1986. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Terms of use
  1. Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography
  1. Austin Hansen is a photographer in Harlem.
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Added author
  1. Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1348
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