Herb & Dorothy (2008)

Director:

Megumi Sasaki

Release Date:

13 November 2010 (Japan)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Tagline:

You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.

Plot:

Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.

Plot Keywords:

Art Collector | Contemporary Art | Painting | Art Gallery | Pop Art

Awards:

6 wins

Cast

Paula Antebi	...	Herself - Herb's Sister
Will Barnet	...	Himself - Artist
Robert Barry	...	Himself - Artist
Lynda Benglis	...	Herself - Artist
Michael Bloomberg	...	Himself - Mayor of New York City (archive footage)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude	...	Themselves - Artists (also archive footage)
Chuck Close	...	Himself - Artist
Jack Cowart	...	Himself - Director, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Molly Donovan	...	Herself - Curator, National Gallery of Art
Carole Hoffman	...	Herself - Dorothy's Sister-in-Law
Sidney S. Hoffman	...	Himself - Dorothy's Brother
Sol LeWitt	...	Himself - Artist (archive footage)
Joe Libonati	...	Himself - Postal Worker
Robert Mangold	...	Himself - Artist
Sylvia Mangold	...	Herself - Artist (as Sylvia Plimack Mangold)
John Paoletti	...	Himself - Art Historian
Lucio Pozzi	...	Himself - Artist
Charles Ritchie	...	Himself - Curator, National Gallery of Art
Charlie Rose	...	Himself - Host, The Charlie Rose Show (archive footage)
Julie Salamon	...	Herself - Journalist, New York Times
Alan Shestack	...	Himself - Deputy Director, National Gallery of Art
James Siena	...	Himself - Artist (also archive footage)
Susanna Singer	...	Herself - Artists Representative
Pat Steir	...	Herself - Artist
Robert Storr	...	Himself - Art Critic, Curator
Richard Tuttle	...	Himself - Artist
Archie Vogel	...	Himself - Cat
Dorothy Vogel	...	Herself (also archive footage)
Herbert Vogel	...	Himself (also archive footage)
Mike Wallace	...	Himself - CBS 60 Minutes Correspondent (archive footage)
John Weber	...	Himself - Art Dealer
Lawrence Weiner	...	Himself - Artist

Directed by
Megumi Sasaki

Produced by
Lilly Bright	....	executive producer
Stanley F. Buchthal	....	executive producer (as Stanley Buchthal)
Sally Jo Fifer	....	executive producer
Maja Hoffman	....	executive producer
Karl Katz	....	executive producer
David Koh	....	executive producer
Catherine Price	....	executive producer
Megumi Sasaki	....	producer
Takeshi Yamasaki	....	associate producer

Original Music by
David Majzlin

Film Editing by
Bernadine Colish

Production Management
Mary Martin	....	post-production producer
Richard O'Connell	....	director of production: itvs
Jorge Trelles	....	production manager
Chad Whitman	....	post-production producer

Sound Department
James Baker	....	location sound
Brett Hammond	....	location sound
Peter Levin	....	sound re-recording mixer
Hiro Maeda	....	location sound
James Nichols	....	dolby consultant
Barbara Parks	....	sound editor
Gabrielle Weiss	....	location sound

Visual Effects by
Danna Bremer	....	motion graphics and title design
Einat Gavish	....	motion graphics and title design
Bert Moss	....	motion graphics
Bert Moss	....	title designer

Camera and Electrical Department
Axel Baumann	....	camera
Ciro Caso	....	additional camera
Chris Dapkins	....	additional camera
Rafael de la Uz	....	camera
Alan Deutsch	....	additional camera
Morgan Fallon	....	camera
Grant Gaughen	....	additional camera (as Grant W. Gaughen)
Perry Grebin	....	additional camera
Tempei Iwakiri	....	additional camera
Leo Lawrence	....	additional camera
Daniel Lehrecke	....	additional camera
Daniel Marracino	....	additional camera
Brian Murphy	....	additional camera
Ian Saladyga	....	camera
Megumi Sasaki	....	additional camera
Sam Shinn	....	additional camera
Erik Shirai	....	camera
Vladimir Subotic	....	camera
Katsuyoshi Tanaka	....	still photographer
Hemant Tavathia	....	additional camera operator (as Tavathia Hement)
Gabrielle Weiss	....	additional camera

Editorial Department
Alex Berman	....	colorist
Julie Criniere	....	editor: trailer
Abbey Dubin	....	post-production assistant
Audra Epstein	....	post-production assistant
Ema Jitsukawa	....	post-production assistant
Jeremy Krinsley	....	post-production assistant
Eugene Lehnert	....	on-line editor
Meera Menon	....	post-production assistant
Jonathan Nastasi	....	editor: trailer
Joseph Ruscitto	....	associate editor
Jonathan Trimby	....	post-production assistant

Music Department
Lawrence Manchester	....	music recording mixer: Avatar Studios
Paul Vazquez	....	music recording engineer

Other crew
Dorothy Alexander	....	photograph source
David Antebi	....	additional archival source
Robert Barry	....	additional archival source
Rick Bartow	....	web site designer
Guido Baselgia	....	photograph source
Benjamin Blackwell	....	photograph source
Lyn Blumenthal	....	archival footage source
Peter Broderick	....	distribution strategist
Lisa Callif	....	clearance counsel
Christo	....	additional archival source
Michael Clark	....	additional archival source
Lori Derhagopian	....	production assistant
John Dominis	....	photograph source
Gianfranco Gorgoni	....	additional archival source
Michael Halsband	....	photograph source
Shiro Hayashi	....	production assistant
Kate Horsfield	....	archival footage source
David Horton	....	photograph source
Gordon Hyatt	....	additional archival source
Jeanne-Claude	....	additional archival source
Dana Kirchoff	....	archival researcher
Linda Lilienfeld	....	archival researcher
Divya Madhusudhan	....	archival researcher
Christopher Mako	....	additional archival source
Fred McDarrah	....	photograph source (as Fred W. McDarrah)
Katia McGuire	....	archival researcher
Yuichiro Nonaka	....	production assistant
Walter Russell	....	additional archival source
Amy Schewel	....	archival researcher
Judith Shea	....	photograph source
Julia Siemon	....	transcript: Transcript Associates
Innes Smolansky	....	legal services: Donaldson & Callif
Michelle Stockman	....	transcript: Transcript Associates
Allan Tannenbaum	....	photograph source
Dorothy Vogel	....	additional archival source
Dorothy Vogel	....	art source
Herbert Vogel	....	additional archival source
Herbert Vogel	....	art source
Zelda Wirtschafter	....	archival footage source
Kunsthaus Zug	....	photograph source

Thanks
Toshio Adachi	....	special thanks
Shinichiro Akasaka	....	special thanks
Carey Ascenzo	....	special thanks
Will Barnet	....	special thanks
Robert Barry	....	special thanks
Peter Bavaro	....	special thanks
Lynda Benglis	....	special thanks
Steve Bennett	....	special thanks
John Chamberlain	....	special thanks
Christo	....	special thanks
Charles Clough	....	special thanks
Harry Cooper	....	special thanks
Nadine Covert	....	special thanks
Charina Espino	....	special thanks
Ted Feder	....	special thanks
Ruth Fine	....	special thanks
Gloria Gura	....	special thanks
Maki Hatae	....	special thanks
Beth Janson	....	special thanks
Jeanne-Claude	....	special thanks (as Christo & Jeanne-Claude)
Jim Jermanok	....	special thanks
Jennifer Joy	....	special thanks
Michael Joyce	....	special thanks
Steve Keister	....	special thanks
Steven Konick	....	special thanks
Yasushi Koyama	....	special thanks
Wendy Lehman	....	special thanks
Ethan Levitas	....	special thanks
Robert Mangold	....	special thanks
Gloria McDarrah	....	special thanks
Mary Jane McKinven	....	special thanks
Jennifer Moon	....	special thanks
Troy Myers	....	special thanks
Aiko Nakasone	....	special thanks
Claes Oldenburg	....	special thanks
Gladys Pizarro	....	special thanks
Nestor Pizzaro	....	special thanks
Edda Renouf	....	special thanks
Craig Robins	....	special thanks
Peter Rosen	....	special thanks
James Siena	....	special thanks
Sandy Spencer	....	special thanks
Pat Steir	....	special thanks
Masako Tsumura	....	special thanks
Keiko Tsuno	....	special thanks
Seth Unger	....	special thanks
Stephen A. Vigilante	....	special thanks
Atsuko Watanabe	....	special thanks
Lawrence Weiner	....	special thanks
Barbara Wood	....	special thanks
Masa Yanagi	....	special thanks
Minoru Yasuda	....	special thanks
Alon Yavni	....	special thanks
Deborah Ziska	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Fine Line Media
• Independent Television Service (ITVS) (co-production) (as ITVS Television's Independent Voice) (as Independent Television Service [ITVS])
• MUSE Film and Television (in association with)

Distributors

• Arthouse Films (2008) (worldwide) (all media)
• Curiously Bright Entertainment (2008) (worldwide) (all media) (as Curiously Bright Entertainment?)
• LM Media (2008) (worldwide) (all media)
• Crest International (2010) (Japan) (theatrical) (in association with)

Other Companies

• ARTnews  additional archival source (as ARTnews LLC.)
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD)  archival footage source (as ARD German TV)
• Art Resource  art source
• Artists Rights Society  art source
• Avatar Studios  music mixing studio (as Avatar Studios, NYC)
• BBC Motion Gallery  archival footage source
• Brenau University Galleries  art source
• Brooklyn Arts Council, The  additional funding was provided by
• Brooklyn Public Library  special thanks
• Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection  photograph source
• CBS News Archives  archival footage source
• CNN Image Source  archival footage source
• Charlie Rose Show, The  archival footage source (as Charlie Rose)
• Cheim & Read  special thanks
• Christie's  special thanks (as Christie's, NY)
• Clancy Moving System  special thanks (as Clancy Moving System, Inc.)
• Cloutier, O'Connor & Associates  equipment rental
• Contemporanea  additional archival source
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)  funding
• Cube Communications  equipment rental
• Cube Communications  special thanks
• Dacra  special thanks
• Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University  special thanks (as NYU Department of Art and Art Professions)
• Donaldson & Callif  legal services
• Downtown Community Television Center  equipment rental (as Downtown Community Television)
• Downtown Community Television Center  fiscal sponsorship (as Downtown Community Television)
• Drawing Center, The  special thanks
• Frank Driggs Collection  photograph source
• Gallery Vietnam  special thanks
• Getty Images  archival footage source
• Getty Images  photograph source
• Gramercy Park Foundation  funding provided by
• Gramercy Park Foundation  special thanks
• Hazen Polsky Foundation  major funding was provided by
• Historic Films  archival footage source (as Historic Films Archives, LLC)
• Iambic Productions  additional archival source
• Interview Magazine  additional archival source (as Interview)
• Ira M. Resnick Foundation  major funding was provided by
• Judd Foundation  special thanks
• Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert  special thanks (as Klemens Gasser & Tanya Grunert, Inc.)
• Kunsthalle Bielefeld  art source
• Landov Media  photograph source
• Longhouse Reserve  special thanks
• Los Angeles Times  additional archival source
• Masters and Masterworks  archival footage source
• Maysles Films  archival footage source (as Maysles Films Inc.)
• National Gallery of Art, Washington  art source (as The National Gallery of Art)
• National Gallery of Art, Washington  special thanks (as The National Gallery of Art)
• New Jersey Public Broadcasting  additional archival source
• New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theater & Broadcasting, The  archival footage source (as NYC TV - Mayor's office)
• New York Magazine  additional archival source
• New York Post  additional archival source
• New York State Council on the Arts  major funding was provided by
• New York Times, The  additional archival source (as New York Times)
• New York University Archives  photograph source
• Newsday  additional archival source
• Oldenburg van Bruggen Studio  art source
• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center  archival footage source
• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center  photograph source (as P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center)
• Pan  additional archival source
• Pearson International  additional archival source (as Pearson PLC)
• People Magazine  additional archival source (as People)
• Petco  special thanks
• Post Logic Studios  post production facility (as Post Logic Studios, NYC)
• Rockwell Museum of Western Art  art source
• Roy Lichtenstein Foundation  art source
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  photograph source
• Smithsonian Magazine  additional archival source
• Splash Studios  audio post production (as Splash Studios, NY)
• Stebich Ridder International (SRI)  special thanks
• Stebich Ridder International (SRI)  special thanks (as Stebich Ridder International)
• Streamline Films  archival footage source
• Tamberelli Digital  equipment rental
• Tatge / Lasseur Productions  additional archival source (as Tatge/ Lasseur Productions)
• Tekserve  special thanks
• The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts  art source
• The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts  major funding was provided by
• Thought Equity Motion  archival footage source
• Track Nine Studios  music recording studio (as Track 9 Studios, NYC)
• Transcript Associates  transcript
• Tribeca Film Institute  a selected project of Tribeca All Acess, a program of the Tribeca Film Institute
• Union Square Greenmarket  special thanks
• United States Postal Service (USPS)  special thanks (as United States Post Office)
• United Van Lines  special thanks
• University of Arkansas  art source
• Vaga Visual Artists  art source (as VAGA, New York)
• Video Data Bank  archival footage source
• WNET Channel 13 New York  additional archival source (as Thirteen/WNET New York)
• WPA Film Library  archival footage source
• WWOR  additional archival source (as WWOR-TV)
• Wall Street Journal  additional archival source (as The Wall Street Journal)
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)  archival footage source (as WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK KOLN)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY  additional archival source (as Whitney Museum of American Art)
• Wildenstein Gallery, New York  photograph source (as Pace Wildenstein Gallery)
• Wildenstein Gallery, New York  special thanks (as Pace Wildenstein Gallery)
• William Paterson University  photograph source

Also Known As:

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:G | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Elmira, New York, USA

Company:

Fine Line Media

Trivia:

For the first 74 minutes of the film, Herbert Vogel is not credited on screen as all the other credited cast members are, until the archive footage of "Charlie Rose" (1991), 1992 is shown, and then he is credited as "Herbert Vogel, art collector" from the on screen graphics for The Charlie Rose Show archival footage. Dorothy Vogel is never directly credited on screen.

Movie Connections:

Features "60 Minutes" (1968)

Eclectic and Wonderful!

This documentary reviews the eclectic life of an art collector couple in New York City. They're a wonderful couple who devote their spare time to collecting art. And as one of the trailers mentioned "you don't have to be Rockefeller to buy art". This couple is now retired and had normal jobs – she was a librarian and he worked for the post office – but no children. They loaded up their rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan with the art they loved. I can't say that I was enamoured by the art they accumulated – but everyone has their own tastes! They didn't do this for the money either; they donated their collection to the National Art Gallery in Washington which is free to the public. This is a truly life affirming film about real people with a passion for the art world.