Peter Yates photograph collection 1978-1990

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Peter Yates photograph collection 1978-1990

Ann Arbor, Michigan photographer. Photographic images taken to accompany articles in the Ann Arbor Observer. Images include Ann Arbor businesses, buildings, neighborhoods, parks, landmarks; also photos of local personalities, politicians, business people, and University of Michigan faculty and staff members.

ca. 5200 35mm negative strips in 3 boxes

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6390626

Bentley Historical Library

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Yates, Peter, 1941-

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Peter Yates has worked as a free-lance photographer in the Ann Arbor area since 1977, when he quit his job as the manager of a bar to take photographs for the Ann Arbor Observer . At the time, the Observer had been in production for less than a year and was a struggling enterprise. The newspaper's distinctive visual style is very much a reflection of Yates' artistic sensibility. Born in England in 1941, Yates attended an elite boys' school in Sussex, and then the Univers...