de Land, Colin, b. 1955 d. 2003

Colin de Land photographs, motion picture film, videos, and miscellany, 1984-2004

8.7 linear feet

Photographs, which make up a bulk of the collection, consist of aproximately 4,000 4 x 6 inch photographs, photographs on CD-Rom, slides and negatives, and oversized photographs of various subject matter and people, taken by a variety of unknown people who entered de Land's galleries; reel-to-reel motion picture film; video; and miscellany documenting de Land's career as a gallery owner and artists' representative.

Photographs are of Colin de Land, Andy Warhol, Pat Hearn, Dennis Balk, Jackie McAllister, John Waters, Nan Goldin, Andrea Fraser, Mel Bochner, Craig Waldin, Peter Fend, Mary Heilman, and Kembra Pfahler, among others, as well as the Armory Show art fair. Reel-to-reel motion picture film and video includes 35 super-8 films of "Nudie smoking films- duration, one cigarette", and 28 DV mini-cassette videos, most unidentified, but include exhibition openings, birthdays, holidays, and dinners, among other events. Miscellaneous documents include one 2-inch square painting of Demilunes of Heidenhain by Charles Clough, one calendar page autographed by artist Claudia Schiffer, and de Land's baseball cap he was often pictured wearing.

The papers were donated in 2008 by Dennis Balk, an artist at the American Fine Arts gallery and a close friend of de Land's.

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