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Images from the Henrietta (Henri) McDowell Memorial Photography Collection

Owning Institution: Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library

About this Collection

This collection contains a sample of images from McDowell's body of work consisting of photographs of important local dancers and dance companies, with a strong emphasis on San Francisco Ballet as she spent nearly 20 years photographing the company. The photographic materials feature such notables as Lew Christensen, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn and several members of the San Francisco Ballet such as Carlos Carvajal, Robert Gladstein, Sally Bailey, Jocelyn Vollmar, and Michael Smuin. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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Alan Bergman and Jud Stoodard in Gladstein's The Fall of Siliver Creek, …
Alan Bergman with Zola Dishong and Henry Berg with Betsy Erickson in …
Alexander Filipov in Smuin's Quattro a Verdi, circa 1978-1979
Allyson Deane and another San Francisco Ballet dancer, undated
Allyson Deane in Christensen's Divertissement D'Auber (II), circa 1970s
Anita Paciotti and Bruce Bain in Christensen's Nutcracker, 1968
Anita Paciotti and Bruce Bain in Christensen's Nutcracker, 1968
Anita Paciotti and Bruce Bain in Christensen's Nutcracker, 1968
Anita Paciotti and Daniel Simmons in Arvola's "A.C. - 615", 1971
Anita Paciotti and Daniel Simmons in Arvola's "A.C. - 615", 1971
Anita Paciotti and Tomm Ruud in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, circa …
Anita Paciotti and Tomm Ruud in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, circa …
Anita Paciotti and Tomm Ruud in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, circa …
Anita Paciotti and Victoria Gyorfi in Christensen's Il Distratto, circa 1970s
Anita Paciotti in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, circa 1978
Anita Paciotti in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, circa 1978
Barbara Begamy and Lee Fuller in Vollmar's Song Without Words, circa 1965-1966
Barbara Begamy and Lee Fuller, undated
Barbara Begamy in Gladstein's The Fall of Siliver Creek, 1966
Barbara Begany and another dancer in Herst's Highway 101, 1965
Barbara Begany and another dancer in Herst's Highway 101, 1965
Barbara Begany and another dancer in Herst's Highway 101, 1965
Barbara Begany in Christensen's Nutcracker, 1970
Barbara Begany in Christensen's Nutcracker, 1970
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