Background
Ted James Spagna, Jr. was born on October 11, 1943.
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The Cooper Union's Foundation Building, at Cooper Square and Astor Place
(In 1975, Ted Spagna began his voyeuristic venture into "i...)
In 1975, Ted Spagna began his voyeuristic venture into "inner space," exposing the secrets of human sleep behavior by photographing intimate narratives of sleeping figures with a time-lapse camera. Taken at fixed intervals throughout the night from a bird's-eye view, and displayed in chronological order, the series of images reads like a silent film. From the erotic to the domestic, men and women alone, tender intertwined couples, and children are all psychologically and often literally naked as they dance within their sheets. Presented in brilliantly colored exposures, these sensual, cinematic images of dressed or undressed sleeping subjects depict the inherent beauty, rhythm, and organization of natural behavior.
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Ted James Spagna, Jr. was born on October 11, 1943.
Ted Spagna, Jr. earned a Master of Science in Film at Boston University in 1972 and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at Cooper Union. He went on to graduate studies in film animation at Harvard University, Cambridge (1971-1972).
As of 1980, Ted Spagna began teaching Spatial Design/ Architectonics at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston and Medford, Massachusetts, respectively. In 1976-1977 he lectured in visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. In 1976 he taught film production at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, and from 1974 to 1976 he taught film production and theory at the State University of New York in Manhattan.
Ted Spagna has freelanced in film and photography since 1977. He has freelanced in film and photography since 1977, collaborated on sleep research with Dr. Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School since 1975, and was an associate designer for Spectrum Design Associates, Boston, in 1972-1973. His images have appeared in such publications as Vogue, Science News, Smithsonian, Psychology Today, and the Japanese journal of Architecture.
Among his several film credits are Sleep Film (1977), Made in Japan and 2 x 2 (1976), Arabesque, and The Miss Naked USA Contest (feature-length, 1974).
(In 1975, Ted Spagna began his voyeuristic venture into "i...)
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