Arenapal
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. 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 manages a library of 10 million images with over 700,000 currently viewable online. The library also holds thousands of unscanned prints, negatives and transparencies. These are digitised as part of its on-site archival scanning project. In 2007, it was declared the best international image library in the world.
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 Clive Barda, Richard Cannon, Eric Richmond and Hilary Shedel. ArenaPAL is a member of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA), which has declared it: "[t]he best international performing arts photographic resource for all images users representing a unique collection from around the world", in 2007.[1]
Collections
In addition to the original Performing Arts Library (PAL) (*) founded by Barda,[2]:19 the following archives and collections are represented by ArenaPAL:
- Andia (France),
- Garsington Opera,
- Glyndebourne Festival Opera (*),
- including the Guy Gravett Collection and Mike Hoban Collection,
- the Royal Opera House Opera and Dance Archives (*),
- the University of Bristol Theatre Collection (*).
- the Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Archive (*),[3]
- the Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory Archive (*),
- the John Vickers Archive (*),
- the Royal Academy of Dance,
- the Royal College of Music (*),
- the Boosey and Hawkes Collection,
- the Darryl Williams Dance Library (*),
- the Stanislavski Collection (Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance) (*),[4]
- Collection Christophel French film archive[5]
- IndaiPicture,
- Sputnik (RIA Novosti) Culture Russian picture library,
- the Cameron Mackintosh collection,
- the Noel Gay Organisation,
- the Prussian Heritage Image Archive (BPK),
- the Ronald Grant Film and TV Archive,
- Ullstein Bild German picture library
(*) = Exclusive Franchise
Photographers
ArenaPAL represents the archives of many photographers of the performing arts, including:
- Hervé Allemand
- Simon Annand
- Frazer Ashford
- Clive Barda[6]
- Alan Bergman
- Conrad Blakemore
- Marco Borggreve
- Sisi Burn
- Laurence Burns
- Sheila Burnett
- Henrietta Butler
- Richard Cannon
- Pamela Chandler
- Hanya Chlala
- Nobby Clark
- Ian Dickson
- Mark Douet
- Mark Ellidge
- Guy Gravett
- Sasha Gusov
- Jamie Hodgson
- Pete Jones
- Jak Kilby
- Marilyn Kingwill
- Ivan Kyncl
- Richard Mildenhall
- Morris Newcombe
- Nigel Norrington
- Jan Olofsson
- Johan Persson
- Dan Porges
- Linda Rich
- Eric Richmond
- Ron Scherl
- Hilary Shedel
- Herb Snitzer
- Leslie E. Spatt
- John Timbers
- Allan Titmuss
- John Vickers
- Michael Ward
- Darryl Williams
See also
References
- ↑ ArenaPAL British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA). bapla.org.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
- ↑ Barda, Clive (2000). Performance! Musicians in Photographs. London: Peter Biddulph. ISBN 978-0952-01094-4.
- ↑ / BAPLA News : Exclusive to ArenaPAL : The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "The Stanislavski Centre - Archive Overview". theatrefutures.org.uk. Theatre Futures. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ↑ "New Collection - 200k film stills uploaded - now at ArenaPAL". www.photoarchivenews.com. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ↑ "Talking Pictures: Leading classical music photographer Clive Barda features in BBC Music magazine...... BBC Music Magazine. (December 2009). arenapal.blogspot.com. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
External links
- "Licence To Sell: ArenaPAL". F2 Freelance Photographer. (June/July 2009). f2freelancephotographer.com. (Subscription required). Retrieved 5 July 2010.