Arizona State University, Gammage Auditorium, Dressing Room
In 1957 Grady Gammage, who was at the time the President of Arizona State University, envisioned construction of a unique and distinctive auditorium on the ASU campus in Tempe. He was a close friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and asked the famous architect if he would help complete that vision. Wright proposed using a design that had been drafted for an opera house planned for Baghdad, Iraq — a design that had never been built. Behind the stage are the dressing rooms. This one is larger so it can be shared by the chorus or other group performers. I did see a dressing room reserved for a star and surprisingly, it was nothing to write home about — and so small that you would need a fish-eye lens to photograph it. I did find it interesting that they mixed fluorescent and incandescent light fixtures in an area where performers would be applying their makeup. The former tend to produce a greenish cast and the latter an amber cast — a nightmare for photographers and I would have thought the same for performers. Perhaps the fact that green and red are complementary colors make it work out somehow.
Size: 5921px × 3947px
Location: Tempe, AZ, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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