Arenapal
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| 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 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.
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).
Collections
In addition to the original Performing Arts Library (PAL) (*), 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,
- IndaiPicture,
- RIA Novosti Culture,
- the Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory Archive (*),
- the Boosey and Hawkes Collection,
- the Cameron Mackintosh Library,
- the Darryl Williams Dance Library (*),
- the John Vickers Archive (*),
- the Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Archive (*),[1]
- the Noel Gay Organisation,
- the Opera and Dance Archives of the Royal Opera House (*),
- the Prussian Heritage Image Archive (BPK),
- the Ronald Grant Film and TV Archive,
- the Royal Academy of Dance,
- the Royal College of Music (*),
- the Stanislavski Collection (Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance) (*),[2]
- the University of Bristol Theatre Collection (*).
(*) = exclusive franchise.
Photographers
ArenaPAL represents the archives of many photographers of the performing arts, including:
- Hervé Allemand
- Frazer Ashford
- Clive Barda[3]
- Alan Bergman
- Conrad Blakemore
- Sisi Burn
- Sheila Burnett
- Henrietta Butler
- Richard Cannon
- Hanya Chlala
- Nobby Clark
- Ian Dickson
- Mark Douet
- Mark Ellidge
- Guy Gravett
- Sasha Gusov
- Jamie Hodgson
- Jak Kilby
- Marilyn Kingwill
- Ivan Kync
- Morris Newcombe
- Nigel Norrington
- Johan Persson
- Linda Rich
- Eric Richmond
- Ron Scherl
- Hilary Shedel
- Herb Snitzer
- John Timbers
- Allan Titmuss
- John Vickers
- Darryl Williams
See also
References
- ↑ / 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.
- ↑ 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
External links
- www.arenapal.com
- Arenapal at the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA)
- "F2 Freelance Photographer: Licence To Sell - Arenapal managing director Biddy Hayward talks to Sue Harper about its specialist service and the close relationship maintained with its photographers" (June / July 2009 Issue)