Hi Jeff and Everyone,

Many thanks for weighing in!  It’s truly appreciated.  Yes, that appears to be 
the same camera as the one AW holds at the Beatles press conference, but with 
the lens swapped.  I remember that exchange last year about the press 
conference photo with Gopnik and Pierce.  That was for Gopnik’s book.

Cheers to all!

Claire


From: Jeff Kreines [mailto:j...@kinetta.com]
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Camera question

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
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On Dec 11, 2019, at 3:03 PM, Claire Henry, Curatorial 
<claire_he...@whitney.org<mailto: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


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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

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