Photographs from Staff and Stringer Photographic Assignments Relating to U.S. Political Events and Social, Cultural, and Economic Life, 1964–1999

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Photographs from Staff and Stringer Photographic Assignments Relating to U.S. Political Events and Social, Cultural, and Economic Life, 1964–1999

1964–1999

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/3324890

This series consists of photographs taken by the International Communications Agency (ICA) and its predecessors staff and stringer photographers for use in press releases, feature packets, pamphlets, leaflets, magazines and other publications directed abroad as part of the ICA visual propaganda program. Coverage includes political, cultural, and economic events, personalities and subjects generally considered valuable for creating a favorable image of the U.S. among foreign audiences. Principal ICA staff photographers who contributed to this series include Lawrence J. Riordan, Oliver E. Pfeiffer, Joseph Pinto, George J. Szabo, Jack F. Lartz, Yuki King, Ronald Fett, Lee Battaglia, Barry Fitzgerald, Dwight Somers, Carol Hightower, Ken White and John Wicart. As a result of the sheer volume of picture requests, as well as the variety of locations across the U.S. that were sites for desired photographic coverages, staff contributions were frequently supplemented with work by numerous stringer photographers hired on an assignment-by-assignment basis. Some of the most frequent stringer photographers found in this series include George Knight, James Cayne, Robert Eckman, Suzanne Seed, Chad Slattery, Paul Conklin, Steve Eagle, Jay Leviton, Tommy Thompson, Christopher Springmann, Mel Larson, Brig Cabe, Ed Pierott, Dennis Galloway, Manuel Gomez, Judy Sloan, Randa Bishop, Ken Heinen, Heidi Goldstein, Peter Vaselopulos, Eric Poggenpohl, and Bob Severi. For some assignments, ICA made use of such well-established commercial photo agencies as Black Star, Wide World, Guild Photographers, and Photonetics, or, alternatively, photo-journalists affiliated with such newspapers and magazines as the "Los Angeles Times" and "U.S. News and World Report." Along with the photographs generated in the course of an assignment, each file in this series includes a formal or informal ICA assignment sheet, indicating requesting office, coverage purpose, visual strategy and publication intention. In some cases, there also appear notes, from the photographer to ICA Visual Materials/Visual Services officials, about the kinds of photographs generated, the atmosphere in which they were taken, and assorted challenges encountered in the process.

93 linear feet, 7 linear inches

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