John Bartelstone Photograph collection
Collection, SC/8
- Creator:
- Bartelstone, John
- 1994 – 2007
- Quantity
- 1 box (97 items), 420 digital files, 3.06 GB
- Language of Materials
- English.
- Call Number
- SC/8
- Administrative/Biographical History
- John Bartelstone was born in 1956 in New York City. He was educated at both Syracuse University and Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning, from which he received a Master’s in Architecture in 1985. He worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He began photographing the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the early 1990s. He has been an architectural photographer since 1995. He runs John Bartelstone Photography, LLC, based in New York City. More information about his work may be found on his website, www.johnbartelstone.com.
- Scope and Content
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This collection contains photographs of the Brooklyn Navy Yard taken by John Bartelstone, a native New Yorker who was captivated by its “inaccessibility and history…a place that exists at the periphery of consciousness.” The items in the collection could be thus considered the unpublished manuscript that would later become his hardcover book The Brooklyn Navy Yard, published in 2010 by powerhouse Books. Bartelstone describes his work as “neither a history of the Yard nor a depiction of its role as a modern industrial park but rather a set of structured impressions of a dream scape through which I have been traveling for fourteen years.” The photographs depict the Yard’s 300 acres in “five elements:” dry docks, industrial buildings, structures, housing, and hospital grounds.
There are 30 9.5 x 9” black and white prints, 41 8 x 10” black and white prints, and 36 5 x 7” black and white prints. The representation of digital material within the collection far surpasses the print material in volume, many items did not make it into the published manuscript. Thus, the collection represents the full breadth of Bartelstone’s work at the Yard. A copy of The Brooklyn Navy Yard may be found in the BNYDC Archives’ Reference collection, series 5.
- System of Arrangement
- This physical items have not been arranged. The digital surrogates are arranged by building/structure.
- Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access This collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Reproduction Material in this collection is made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law, and by strict permission of the creator. The use must assume full responsibility for any use of the material, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced material. Please see the BNYDC Archives’ Policy on Access and Use for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Any material used for academic research or otherwise must be cleared by Archives staff and should be credited using the citation below.
- Preferred Citation Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); John Bartelstone Photograph collection; SC/8; Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation Archives, Brooklyn, NY.