Olive Pierce photographs, 1960-2004.

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Pierce, Olive. Olive Pierce photographs, 1960-2004.

Olive Pierce photographs, 1960-2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61672112

Collection includes documentary black and white photographic prints taken by Pierce that focus on New England life and landscapes from 1960-1993, and life in Iraq in 1999 and 2003, as well as protests in the U.S. against that war. The earliest body of Pierce's work (1960-1968) features landscapes and individuals in Maine. A second group of images from Maine assembled by the photographer date from 1963 to 1993. Other prints document social and political controversy in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the early 1970s; social life in the Jefferson Park neighborhood in Cambridge during the 1970s; teenage life in a Cambridge high school in the early 1980s; everyday life of a fisherman's family in Maine from the late 1980s to the early 1990s; the daily lives of Iraqi children in 1999 during the period of UN sanctions; and protests in the U.S. against the war in Iraq. Collection also includes Pierce's "On Teaching Photography" guide (1987); as well as a poster for the exhibition on war protests, "On the Bridge, A Community Speaks: Photographs by Olive Pierce" ; a copy of the Fall 2004 issue of Vassar's alumni magazine, which contains a photo-story by Pierce; and a copy of the magazine MAINE TIMES, which contains six photos by Pierce accompanying an article on Iraq war protests in the U.S. (September 2003). Other items include postcards featuring her images of Iraqi children, and proofs for several collections of Pierce's images accompanied by text written by her. Acquired as part of the Duke University Archive of Documentary Arts.

700 items (24.5 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library