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Photographer:

Strauber, Alan  Search this

Names:

Brown, Jerry, 1942-  Search this

Burrell, Kenny  Search this

Diddley, Bo, 1928-2008  Search this

Duke, David  Search this

Franklin, Aretha  Search this

Winfield, Dave  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Place:

Ellis Island (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

ca. 1990-1999.

Summary:

Forty-one black and white photoprints, most of which are portraits of jazz, blues, Cajun, and zydeco musicians, plus a few additional subjects.

Scope and Contents:

These prints are all on fiber-based paper, unmounted. The subjects include jazz, blues, and zydeco musicians, politicians, and baseball players in action. All prints copyright 1994 by Alan Strauber, except as otherwise noted, and signed and dated on verso. All are 8" x 10" except for the 11" x 14" prints in box 2.

The majority of the photographs depict musicians in concert, but additional subjects include professional baseball players, politicians like Jerry Brown, and built structures in the American South and at Ellis Island.

Subjects include Marie Laveau's tomb, Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Michel Doucette, George Porter, Aretha Franklin, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor, Johnny Copland, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, "Snooks" Eaglin, Robert Ward, Bo Diddley, Don Byron, Cajun dancers, David Duke, Jerry Brown, Boozoo Chavis, Terrence Simien, Chubby Carrier, C. J. Chevier, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson, Kenny Burrell, Robben Ford, Kenny Neal, Junior Wells, John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon, a Mardi Gras "Indian," Walter "Wolfman" Washington, and Robert "Junior" Lockwood; Ellis Island; and "Little Wimp's Barbecue House."

Arrangement:

1 series.

Arranged topically.

Biographical / Historical:

Alan Strauber is a photojournalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Downbeat Magazine, and AKC Gazette, among others. His work is in the collections of Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel), the Delta Blues Museum (Clarksdale, Mississippi), and the National Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, N.Y.). Among his special photographic interests are the photography of jazz musicians, professional baseball, and politicians; examples are contained in this collection. His e-mail address is meandgi@sabbatai.com

He is also a poet and art critic. An article by Mr. Strauber, "Art entices eyes, ears at Whitney Museum" from the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal, April 11, 2002, is posted on the World Wide Web at http://cityguide.pojonews.com/fe/DayTrips/stories/dt_whitney_museum.asp.

Mr. Strauber is mentioned in on a genealogical site listing his family background, posted in the "Phair Family Circle" at http://www.geocities.com/hmshultz/phair.html.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Alan Strauber, 1994, December 21.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Alan Staruber retains copyright. At the time of donation, the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History obtained standard museum rights from the photographer to exhibit these photographs, lend them to other qualified museums, and publish them in its own publication program. These rights do not entitle the Archives Center to provide reproduction permission to third parties, which must contact the photographer for further information.

Topic:

Baseball players -- 1990-2000  Search this

Baseball -- 1990-2000  Search this

Jazz musicians -- 1950-2000 -- United States  Search this

Zydeco musicians  Search this

Musicians, Cajun  Search this

Blues musicians  Search this

Jazz -- 1990-2000  Search this

Carnival -- 1990-2000 -- New Orleans (La.)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1980-2000

Citation:

Alan Strauber Photoprints, 1990-1994, 1999, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0517

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Alan Strauber Photoprints

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0517

Author:

Nyhan, Patricia  Search this

Rollins, Brian  Search this

Babb, David  Search this

Physical description:

230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Louisiana

Date:

1997

C1997

Topic:

Sound recordings--Reviews  Search this

Cajun music--Discography  Search this

Musicians, Cajun  Search this

Zydeco music--Discography  Search this

Zydeco musicians  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_554724

Author:

Gould, Philip 1951-  Search this

Physical description:

xxi, 120 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Louisiana

Date:

1992

C1992

Topic:

Musicians, Cajun--Portraits  Search this

Zydeco musicians--Portraits  Search this

Call number:

M1668.8.G69 1992

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_462281