Arenapal

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ArenaPAL Performing Arts Images
Type Private
Industry photo archive, photo library, publishing, photography and the performing arts
Genre photography
Founded 1997
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Area served Worldwide
Services Image licensing, picture research, archival services, arts photography commissions
Website www.arenapal.com
ArenaPAL is a UK company, based in Central London, which specialises in the licensing of performing arts images, both in the UK and throughout the world.
The Arenapal website serves as a portal to the company's primary search facility and distribution outlet
In 2013 www.arenapal.com launched its new Imageflows powered search engine.
Its collection falls under the main categories of opera, theatre, classical and contemporary music, classical and contemporary dance, as well as educational imagery covering all categories. It has a library of 3 million images with over 350,000 currently view-able online. The library also holds thousands of unscanned prints, negatives and transparencies. These are digitised as part of its on-site archival scanning project. It is currently the largest specialist image library of its kind in the world.[citation needed]

History

ArenaPAL was founded in 1997 as the first fully digitised performing arts archive. Unlike most specialist photographic agencies, it has worked with a wide range of contributors from its inception. The company continues to expand its extensive archive as well as taking in submissions of contemporary performance, including theatre, ballet, dance and opera productions, plus classical music, rock, pop and jazz events. Arenapal is also a photographic commissions agency with a roster of arts photographers including Richard Cannon, Eric Richmond and Hilary Shedel.

ArenaPAL is a member of BAPLA, the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies.

Collections

The archives and collections represented by ArenaPAL include the Royal Academy of Dance, the Royal Academy of Music, Garsington Opera, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera including the Guy Gravett Collection and Mike Hoban Collection, the Boosey and Hawkes Collection, the Stanislavski Collection (Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance) (exclusive), The Darryl Williams Dance Library (exclusive), The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Archive (exclusive),[1] Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory Archive (exclusive), The University of Bristol Theatre Collection (exclusive), The John Vickers Archive (exclusive), The Cameron Mackintosh Library, The Noel Gay Organisation, The Ronald Grant Film and TV Archive, RIA Novosti Culture, Prussian Heritage Image Archive (BPK), IndaiPicture, Andia (France) and the original Performing Arts Library (PAL)(exclusive).

As of 2013 ArenaPAL exclusively represent the Opera and Dance Archives of the Royal Opera House.

Photographers

ArenaPAL represents the archives of many photographers of the performing arts, including:

* Alan Bergman (Dancer) * Allan Titmuss
* Clive Barda [2] * Conrad Blakemore
* Darryl Williams * Eric Richmond
* Frazer Ashford * Guy Gravett
* Hanya Chlala * Henrietta Butler
* Herb Snitzer * Hilary Shedel
* Ian Dickson * Ivan Kyncl
* Jak Kilby * Jamie Hodgson
* Johan Persson * John Timbers
* John Vickers * Linda Rich
* Marilyn Kingwill * Mark Douet
* Mark Ellidge * Morris Newcombe
* Nigel Norrington * Nobby Clark
* Richard Cannon * Ron Scherl
* Ron Scherl * Sasha Gusov
* Sheila Burnett * Sisi Burn

References

  1. ↑ / BAPLA News : Exclusive to ArenaPAL : The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection
  2. ↑ BBC Music Magazine : Talking Pictures - Clive Barda guides us through 40 years of viewing conductors, composers, singers and players through the lens of a camera

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