Kenn Duncan

'''Kenn Duncan''' (September 22, 1928 - July 27, 1986) was an American dance photographer.

==Biography== Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for ''After Dark'' and ''Dance Magazine''. His photographs also regularly appeared in ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Life'', ''Time'', and ''Newsweek''. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including ''Hair'', ''Applause'', ''The Elephant Man'', and ''Sophisticated Ladies'' and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita Rivera, Tommy Tune,<ref>http://legacy.www.nypl.org/permissions/imagesref.cfm?id=162&catid=6{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Jerry Herman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carol Channing and Angela Lansbury. Duncan also shot several album covers including Barry Manilow's debut album cover in 1973.

===Death and afterward=== Kenn Duncan died July 27, 1986, in New York Hospital of toxoplasmosis, a complication of AIDS.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kenn Duncan Is Dead; A Dance Photographer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/28/obituaries/kenn-duncan-is-dead-a-dance-photographer.html |work=New York Times |date=1986-07-28 }}</ref>

Duncan's complete archive was acquired by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in 2003.<ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew |last=Gans |title=New York Public Library Acquires Duncan Photos of Hines, Peters, Midler and 599,997 More |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/81534-New-York-Public-Library-Acquires-Duncan-Photos-of-Hines-Peters-Midler-and-599997-More |work=Playbill |date=2003-09-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011193055/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/81534-New-York-Public-Library-Acquires-Duncan-Photos-of-Hines-Peters-Midler-and-599997-More |archivedate=2012-10-11 }}</ref>

==Published works== * ''Nudes'' (Dance Magazine, 1970) * ''More Nudes'' (Danad Pub. Co., 1971) * ''Red Shoes'' (Universe, 1984)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IBDB name}} * [http://archives.nypl.org/the/21729 Kenn Duncan photograph archive, circa 1960-1986], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Kenn}} Category:1928 births Category:1986 deaths Category:20th-century American photographers Category:American portrait photographers