Kasten, Barbara

Abstract

The Interviews and Oral Histories collection reflects audiovisual recordings created or acquired by the Center for Creative Photography. Recordings include interviews, lectures, gallery walk-throughs, symposia, and workshops with photographers, curators, and scholars who have visited the Center for Creative Photography since 1975.

Scope and Contents Videotape interviews for the film High Heels and Ground Glass: Pioneering Women Photographers, released in 1993, Directed by Barbara Kasten and co-produced by Deborah Irmas and Barbara Kasten. The film portrays the life and work of five women photographers, born around the turn of the century. Using examples of their photography with clips from news of the day, their on-camera interviews are woven together to tell a story about life for professional women living in the middle of the...