Abbye Alexander Gorin


General Information


Occupation: Architectural Photographer, Researcher, Writer

Birth Country: United States

Resident Country: United States


Specialties


No specialties on record


Jobs


Employer: KVET

Title: Writer

City: Austin

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Employer: Houston Chronicle

Title: Writer and Layout Artist

City: Houston

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Employer: Latin American Photographic Archive, Tulane University Library

Title: Co-founder

City: New Orleans

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Employer: Plastic Engineered Products Incorporated and Advanced Composites Division

Title: Partner/Head of Accounting and Advertising

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Employer: University of New Orleans

Title: Research Associate

City: New Orleans

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Employer: Virginia Tech

Title: Research Associate

City: Blacksburg

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Employer: Free lance Architectural Researcher - Writer

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Employer: Southeastern Architectural Archive, Tulane University Library

Title: Acting Curator

City: New Orleans

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Employer: WYES-TV 12

Title: Architectural and Image Researcher, "New Orleans in the Sixties"

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Collaborators


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Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: New Orleans Art Directors and Designers Award

Description: Giant Propeller at Avondale, 8x10


Name: Contemporary Photography in Louisiana II, Contemporary Arts Center

Description: Dra. Klein and Intihuatana


Name: Contemporary Photography in Louisiana III, Contemporary Arts Center

Description: Helmut Gersheim on Magazine Street; Mama Brocato and Boys; Sister, New Orleans States Item


Name: Tau Sigma Delta, honorary architecture and allied arts fraternity for academic excellence

Description: Virginia Tech


Exhibitions


Title: Sculpture in Central Mexico

Description: One Person exhibit in Tulane University Latin America Library

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Title: Guatamala

Description: One Person exhibit in Tulane University Latin America Library

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Title: A Photographic Essay of Spain

Description: 35 photographs, One Person exhibit in Tulane University Latin America Library

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Title: Five Mayan Ruins in the Yucatan

Description: 31 Photographs, One Person exhibit in Tulane University Latin America Library

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Title: Grave Site of Lafacido Hern, Tokyo

Description: Lafacido Hern National Traveling exhibit

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Title: Community Church Unitarian Universalist

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Start Date: May 22, 1991

End Date: May 22, 1991


Title: Save Our Cemeteries

Description: lobby of the World Trade Center

City: New York

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Notes: also in 1991


Title: A Guide to Photographic Collections in New Orleans

Description: Photographic Books

City: Blacksburg

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Title: Gold of El Dorado

Description: Supplement to traveling exhibit, New Orleans Museum of Art

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Title: Cuidad Trujillo

Description: 21 photographs, One Person exhibit in Tulane University Latin America Library

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Title: Oaxaca

Description: 36 photographs, One Person exhibit in Tulane University Latin America Library

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Notable Projects


Title: Filipino-Hispanic Religious Architecture, 1572-1815

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: The Art of Documentary Photography: Abraham Guillen Melgar (1901-1985). The Archaeological photographs of a Peruvian documentary photographer.

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: Shapes in Time: Spanish Colonial Architectural Designs and Decorations and Their Book Antecedents, ca. 1550 - ca. 1700

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: Gernshein on the Gernshein Collection

Description: Lecture

City: New Orleans

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Title: AnGela Gregory, Master Sculptor

Description: Lecture

City: New Orleans

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Title: An Architectural Analysis of the Royal Mausoleum at Machu Picchu, Peru

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: Video: A Research Method for Urban Studies

Description: Lecture

City: Blacksburg

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Title: Photography: A Research Method for Studying a Pre-Columbian Site in Latin America

Description: Lecture

City: Blacksburg

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Title: Samuel Wilson Jr.: A Key to Track the Modern Preservation Movement and How New Orleans Fits into the Big Picture

Description: Lecture

City: New Orleans

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Start Date: May 04, 1992

End Date: May 04, 1992


Title: Yesterdays Tomorrows Are Here: The Electronic Book

Description: Lecture, Summer Speakers Program

City: New Orleans

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Start Date: June 30, 1996


Title: Politics on the Landscape: Syria, Jordan, and Israel 1966

Description: Lecture, Lunch and Learn

City: New Orleans

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Start Date: September 05, 1996


Title: New Orleans A Wonderful Town

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: A Verbal-Visual Study of a Nobleman's House, Ganoza Chopitea in Trujillo, Viceregal Peru

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: Chan Chan, Peru (A.D. 950-1440)

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: Masses and Voids on a Developing Grid: The Vieux Carre, New Orleans 1718-1836

Description: Unpublished writings

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Title: Modern Architecture in American Film Decor, 1920s, 30s.

Description: Unpublished writings

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Education


Institution: University of Texas

Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Radio Broadcasting

Notes: Austin, Texas


Institution: University of New Orleans

Degree: Masters of Science, Urban Studies

Notes: New Orleans, Louisiana


Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Department: College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Degree: Ph.D. Environmental Design and Planning

Notes: Blacksburg, Virginia


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


No affiliations on record


Publications By


Title: The Rivergate, The Port of New Orleans Exhibition Cneter, New Orleans LA

Publication: Video 5:00

Date Published: September 01, 1994

Notes: Copy sent to the Secretary of the Interior


Title: Five Protraits for Community Church capital fund drive

Co-author: Kathleen Korb, Suzy Mague, Avis Ogilvy, Judy Pappenhagen, Ira Woodstein


Title: Mayor Marc Morial's first 100 days: A mistakes list related to the Rivergate.

Publication: New Orleans City Business, Guest Perspective

Date Published: August 01, 1994


Title: Remembering a historic moment in our recent past. The Rivergate 1968-1995

Publication: Video 5:30, Interlude 6:03

Publisher: WYES TV-12

Date Published: November 01, 1995


Title: Mama Brocato and Boys, photograph

Co-author: Mary Lou Widmer

Publication: New Orleans in the Thirties

Page: 149

Publisher: Pelican Publishing Co.


Title: The Saint Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans

Publication: St. Louis Cathedral

City: New Orleans


Title: A Visual Text: Architectural History

Publication: Laser disc

Publisher: Virginia Tech

City: Blacksburg


Title: Entry Gate, St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, photograph

Publication: New Orleans Architecture, The Cemeteries

Volume: III

Page: 15

Publisher: Pelican Publishing


Title: Pitot House On Bayou St. John

Publication: Video 30:00

Publisher: Samuel Wilson, Jr., Louisiana Landmarks Society


Title: Angela Gregory, Master Sculpter

Publication: Video, 30:00

Publisher: University of New Orleans

Date Published: November 20, 1985


Title: Post Card Series from photographs in Gorin Collection, Photographic Archive, Tulane University

City: New Orleans

Notes: Four Story Pyramid, Edzna, Campeche; Nunnery, Western Palace, Uxmal, Yucatan; Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, State of Mexico; Temple of the Frescos with Castillo in Background, Tulum, Quintana Roo; Temple of the Sun, Palenque, Chiapas; Temple of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Arlantes Columns. Tula, Hidalgo


Title: Samuel Wilson, Jr., Dean of Architectural Preservation in New Orleans

Co-author: Samuel Wilson, Jr., speaker

Publication: Video 30:00

Publisher: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, University of New Orleans

Date Published: February 26, 1986


Title: Stolen Flag, Letters to the Editor

Publication: Times-Picayune

Date Published: March 25, 1991


Title: The Importance of Visual Literacy

Publication: Louisiana Library Association Bulletin


Title: Chinese Traditional Architecture

Publication: Educational Video, 40:00

Publisher: Virginia Tech

City: Blacksburg

State: Virginia

Country: United States


Title: Society's newest publication (conversations with Samuel Wilson Jr.)

Publication: Preservation


Title: Conversations With Samuel Wilson Jr.

Publisher: Louisiana Landmarks Society

City: New Orleans


Title: Learning from Samuel Wilson, Jr.

Publisher: Louisiana Landmarks Society

City: New Orleans


Title: City had more than its hare of political follies

Publication: Times-Picayune, Letter to the Editor

Date Published: July 03, 1992


Title: Architects many gifts to the city (memorial Samuel Wilson, Jr.)

Publication: Times-Picayune

Date Published: October 27, 1993


Title: A Guide to Photographic Collections in New Orleans

Publisher: Earl K. Long Library and School of Urban and Regional Studies, University of New Orleans

Date Published: November 01, 1987


Title: Archivist Describes Progress, Effect in Technology

Publication: Friends Frontispiece (newsletter of Friends of the Tulane University Library)


Title: A Walking Tour of St. Louis Cemeteries No. 1 and 2

Co-author: Samuel Wilson Jr., host

Publication: Video 30:00

Publisher: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, University of New Orleans

Date Published: October 31, 1986


Title: New Orleans in the Sixties

Publication: Video 60:00

Publisher: WYES TV-12

Date Published: November 29, 1995


Title: New Years Eve of 1963: Robin Gorin with dog 'Mucho' and sister Polly build a snowman


Title: Abbye A. Gorin Collection, Black and White Negatives and Photographs, Tulane University Latin American Photographic Archives

Publication: Latin American Homepage

Url: http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/lalhome.html


Title: Remembering a Friend, Nathaniel Curtis (1917-1997)

Publication: Preservation


Title: A master architect remembered

Publication: Times-Picayune, Letter to the Editor

Date Published: June 25, 1997


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