Toba Pato Tucker photographs and papers, 1950-2006 (bulk 1977-2000).

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Tucker, Toba. Toba Pato Tucker photographs and papers, 1950-2006 (bulk 1977-2000).

Toba Pato Tucker photographs and papers, 1950-2006 (bulk 1977-2000).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702193482

This collection documents the career of Toba Pato Tucker as a portrait photographer, circa 1950-2006, with the bulk of the collection from 1977 to 2000. The photographic materials in this collection consist of exhibition prints, work prints, and negatives for eight major projects, as well as her commission work and personal photography. The papers largely support her photographic work and consist of her project files, which include background research, correspondence, and oral history interviews. The papers also include exhibition catalogs, publications, and publicity material produced for projects, as well as a small amount of personal papers. The subjects for Tucker's portraiture have come principally from Native American populations. These include members of the Onondaga Nation, Shinnecock Indian Nation, Navajo Nation, and Montaukett Indians. Tucker has also documented Native American artists from pueblos throughout the southwestern United States. Portraits of individuals from other communities and locales include street portraits of pedestrians in New York City; residents of a drug rehabilitation program at facilities throughout New York State; the people of Heber Springs, Arkansas, the rural town photographed decades earlier by Mike Disfarmer; and African American members of the First Baptist Church of Riverhead, New York. Tucker's commission work includes portraits of individuals, couples, and families. Her personal photography projects include portraits of family members, friends, and bodybuilders, as well as seascape and landscape photography.

149.46 linear feet (237 boxes) + 1 broadside folder.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library