An Oscar-winning costume and set designer shared stories of his life and career Feb. 21 during a presentation to performing arts students who crowded McKinnon Hall to hear reflections of his time working on Broadway and in Hollywood.
The photos from the sets that he discussed were those he took himself.
“Up until the early ‘60s, most theater productions were pretty effectively (documented) in photography,” he said. But a pattern developed where photographers stopped taking photos of the entire set, opting instead to capture closely cropped pictures of the performers.
Walton’s visit to Elon included talks to two classes – one on set design, the other for directing – as well as lunch with faculty and students. He will attend a student-directed one-act performance in the Black Box Theatre on Feb. 22.
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