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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2005.142.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Halpern, David |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
03/09/2005 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. |
Scope & Content |
Recording of an oral history interview featuring David Halpern at the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum by museum volunteer Chuck Ayers on March 9, 2005. The audio track is 36:22 in length. Halpern, noted photographer, describes his start in the medium, his philosophy, and his various works. He discusses his landscape photography of many national parks and his 2001 book published in collaboration with the Junior League, "Tulsa Art Deco: An Architectural Era, 1925-1942." 00:01 Halpern came to Tulsa in 1971 to work in advertising, his lifelong passion for photography 05:30 How photography became his career, big break in 1984 as the artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain National Park 17:15 What Halpern looks to capture in photography, his writing career, his love of the Wichita Mountains, time at various national parks 27:45 Interest and significance of Tulsa's Art Deco architecture, work with Junior League for Tulsa Art Deco book 36:00 His work with the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art |
Search Terms |
advertisements & advertising Art Deco Boston Avenue United Methodist Church National Parks oral history interviews photographers & photography Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art Warehouse Market Wichita Mountains |
People |
Halpern, David Sontag, WIlliam |