Imogen Cunningham papers

Graves, Morris, 1910-

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Imogen Cunningham

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Born in Portland, Oregon on April 12, 1883, Cunningham's family moved to Seattle in 1889. Inspired by Gertrude Kasebier's work, she purchased her first camera in 1901. After studying chemistry and botany at the University of Washington, she worked for the Edward S. Curtis Studio, Seattle, from 1907 to 1909. Receiving a scholarship, Cunningham studied for a year at the Technische Hochschule, Dresden. Upon her return to Seattle in 1910, she opened a studio and had the firs...

Mann, Margery

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Bristol, Horace

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White, Minor

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Bullock, Wynn

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Hellman, Lillian, 1906-

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Bullock, Wynn.

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Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist, was born Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey. She worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. From the description of Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582293 In the spring of 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired by the War Relocation Authority to document the movement of Japanese-Americans during relo...

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958

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Edward Weston, (American, 1886-1958), was born in Highland Park, Illinois and from an early age was involved with photography. He studied at the Illinois College of Photography in 1908, afterwards moving to Los Angeles to work for a commercial portrait studio and eventually starting his own. Weston exhibited his works in many salons and exhibitions, making his works known in the photographic community. In 1929 Weston moved to Carmel, California, where he would spend the rest of his...

Steinert, Otto, 1915-1978

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Witkin Gallery

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Partridge, Roi, 1888-1984

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Roi Patridge (born George Roy Partridge) was a modernist etcher and member of the San Francisco artistic circle that included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Maynard Dixon and Imogen Cunningham. Born in 1888, he grew up in Seattle, where at the age of ten he was enrolled in his first art class. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and studied etching in Munich, Germany and Paris, France (where he lived for thr...

Bristol, Horace.

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In 1938 Bristol was a young LIFE photographer who had planned to do a photographic book on migratory labor in California. Steinbeck had agreed to collaborate by writing the captions and limited text. From the description of Typescripts relating to Bristol's collaboration with John Steinbeck during the 1930s, 1993-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398225 ...

Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984

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Dramatist. From the description of The autumn garden : playscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131544 Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), playwright and screenwriter. From the description of These three : (Hellman story), 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193196 Lillian Hellman, America’s most significant woman playwright of the twentieth century, was born on June 20, 1905, in New Orleans to Max and Julia Newhouse Hellman. Her e...

Witkin, Lee D.

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Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973

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Edward Jean Steichen, born Eduard Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973), was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator. His were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917. Steichen laid claim to his photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911, being the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Steichen used his talents in the military in ...

Kanaga, Consuelo, 1894-1978

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Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978) is considered a pioneer in social photography. She began her career as a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle, learned photography and joined the California Camera Club, which became the renowned group f/64. After moving to New York, she worked at the New York American and as a free lance photographer. She was married to artist Wallace Putnam and lived in Yorktown Heights, Westchester, New York. From the description of Papers, 1936-1978. (Brooklyn Mus...

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993

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Beaumont Newhall, the founder of the art history of photography, was the first Curator of Photography at MOMA and then at George Eastman House. He authored numerous books, articles and reviews about photography. From the description of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall papers, 1843-1993. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79626249 Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y. From the description of Oral histor...

Henry art gallery

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The Henry Art Gallery was founded in 1927, as the first public art museum in the state of Washington and the art museum of the University of Washington. The Henry Art Gallery is a nationally-recognized center for the exploration of visual culture and is the Pacific Northwest's premier modern and contemporary art museum. The museum's exhibitions bring important works of art to Seattle from throughout the world and bring into public view works of art from the Northwest. These exhibiti...

Noskowiak, Sonya, -1975

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Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946

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László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, film maker, theorist and teacher who was a major figure in the Bauhaus movement, first in Germany and later instrumental in bringing the Bauhaus philosophy to the United States. His work spanned many genres. He was influenced by the Constructivists, Dadists and the Suprematists. In 1922 he was appointed to Bauhaus school of design in Berlin, staying until 1928. After working in commercial practice in Europe, he mov...

George Eastman House

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Schoener, Allon

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Allon Schoener (1926- )is an independent curator and historian in New York, N.Y. and Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Harlem on My Mind exhibition records, 1965-2009. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316798 From the description of Harlem on My Mind exhibition records, 1966-2009. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744436596 Allon Schoener (1926- ) is an independent curator and historian in New York, N.Y. and Los Angeles, Calif. From the descriptio...

Graves, Morris, 1910-2001

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Painter; Washington. From the description of Morris Graves papers, 1932-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502493 Painter; Seattle, Wash. From the description of Morris Graves letters to Derwent and Emma Conlee, [ca. 1950]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566282 ...

Strand, Paul, 1890-1976

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Paul Strand (1890-1976) was a photographer in New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Strand interview, 1971 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78709170 The American-born photographer, Paul Strand, moved to France during the Joseph McCarthy period of incriminations in America. His book, Ghana, an African Portrait, was published in 1976. Thomas H. Garver is Haverford College class of 1956. From the description of ALsS, 1974 January-February : Orgeval, France ...

Mann, Margery

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Photographer, photography historian and critic; Davis, Calif. From the description of Margery Mann files on photography, 1955-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81101270 ...

Bissantz, Edgar, 1901-

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Zorach, William, 1887-1966

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Sculptor, painter; interviewees are married. From the description of Reminiscences of Willam and Marguerite Zorach : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727160 William Zorach (1887-1966) was a sculptor and painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of William Zorach letter to Mr. Shipley, Feb. 8, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821127 Artist. From the description of William Z...

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966

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Epithet: American photographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x00002a Photographer; New York, N.Y. From the description of [Alfred Stieglitz] / [graphic] Alvin Langdon Coburn. [ca. 1907] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205528 ...

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. Th...

Bullock, Wynn.

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Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965

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Painter; Irvington, N.Y. From the description of Charles Sheeler letter to E.P. Richardson, 1958 Sept. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79265385 From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Sheeler, 1959 June 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79269772 Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was a painter, lithographer, and photographer from Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. From the description of Charles Sheeler papers, circa 1840s-1966,...

White, Minor

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Minor White, b. 1908; d. 1976, Photographer. From the description of Oral history interview with Minor White, 1973 Mar. 30-1973 May 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397616 Photographer. Born 1908, died 1976. From the description of Minor White interviews, 1973 Mar. 30-May 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190957 Minor White (1908-1976) was a photographer from Rochester, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Minor W...

Group f.64

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Butler, John, 1890-1976

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Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

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Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous award...

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976

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Finnish architect. From the description of Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 193697446 In 1961, noted American architectural patron, curator and critic Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr. commissioned noted Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his wife, architect Elissa Aalto, to design a suite of meeting areas on the 12th floor of the Institute of International Education's headquarters in New York City. Construct...

Andreson, Laura

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Ceramist; Los Angeles, California. Born in 1902. From the description of Laura Andreson papers, 1902-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82780129 Ceramist; Los Angeles, Calif. Born 1902. From the description of Laura Andreson interview, 1981 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122927 Laura Andreson, 1902-, ceramist of Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Laura Andreson, 1981 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967

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Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein. From the guide to the Alice B. Toklas letters to William Alfred, 1951-1961., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Biographical Note Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of one of Toklas' childhood friends. After his service in the armed forces, he met Toklas in Europe. ...

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006

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Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was a photographer by New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Arnold Newman, 1971 July 17-Aug. 23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595030 Photographer; New York, N.Y.; b. New York, N.Y., Mar. 3, 1918; d. June 6, 2006, New York, N.Y. From the description of Arnold Newman interview, 1964 Sept. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220198810 From the description of Arnold Newman interviews...

Van Dyke, Willard

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Filmmaker. From the description of Reminiscences of Willard Van Dyke : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565557 Filmmaker and producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Willard Van Dyke : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740642 Photographer, filmmaker, curator, and teacher; b. 1906; d. 1986. From the description of Willard ...

Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976

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Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was an American photographer known for her early work in botanical imagery and nudes. During the 1930's, Cunningham explored the industrial and architectural forms of oil refineries, lumber mills, and shipyards. During the 1940's, her focus shifted to documentary street photography. Cunningham remained active, continuing to photograph and organize her work until just before her death at the age of 93. From the guide to the Imogen Cunningham Letter to Geo...

Lyons, Nathan

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Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Adams, Virginia K.

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Struss, Karl, 1886-1981

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Struss (1886-1981) was a cinematographer for over fifty years. He graduated from Columbia University in 1912, worked as a photographer for several years, and developed the Struss soft-focus lens. In 1919, Struss went to Hollywood, where he worked for Cecil B. DeMille for three years and in 1925 he went to Rome to film "Ben Hur." He won the first Oscar for cinematography for "Sunrise" in 1927 and received Oscar nominations for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1932) and "Limelight" (1950). Other Struss ...