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Kathy Vargas papers

Creator:
Vargas, Kathy  Search this
Names:
Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)  Search this
Goldberg, Jim, 1953-  Search this
Lippard, Lucy R.  Search this
Perrone, Jeff  Search this
Extent:
10.8 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Video recordings
Interviews
Date:
circa 1965-2016
Summary:
The papers of San Antonio-based educator and photographer Kathy Vargas measure 10.8 linear feet and date from circa 1965-2016. Vargas's career is documented through biographical material, correspondence, writings and notes, project and exhibition files, professional files, and printed material.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of San Antonio-based educator and photographer Kathy Vargas measure 10.8 linear feet and date from circa 1965-2016. Vargas's career is documented through biographical material, correspondence, writings and notes, project and exhibition files, professional files, and printed material.

The collection contains biographical materials, including a video recording of an interview, photographs of family and friends, and records for Vargas's studies at the University of Texas. Correspondence is with Lucy Lippard, Jim Goldberg, Jeff Perrone, colleagues, and others. Topics of professional correspondence includes exhibitions, publications, and residencies. Writings and notes that include five notebooks, manuscripts by Vargas and others, notes, and lecture and panel talks. Project and exhibition files document her work on major exhibitions of Chicano art, and include twelve sound recordings of interviews for the exhibition Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry. Other projects include the Guerrilla Girls Fotonovela and research on San Antonio shrines. Professional files document Vargas's activities on various boards and committees, employment, and for her work on selection panels. Printed material includes clippings, exhibition material, magazines, posters, and other publications.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as six series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1965-2014 (Boxes 1, 12; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1979-2014 (Boxes 1-5, 12; 4.0 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, circa 1985-2014 (Boxes 5-6; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 4: Project and Exhibition Files, 1984-2004 (Boxes 6-8, 12; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 5: Professional Files, 1975-2016 (Boxes 8-9; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1974-circa 2010 (Boxes 9-12, OV 13; 2.4 linear feet)
Biographical / Historical:
Kathy Vargas (1950- ) is an educator and photographer in San Antonio, Texas.

Vargas's early influences were the stories of her elder family members, Catholicism, and her uncle Antonio Valdez, a photographer. In the early 1970s, Vargas became acquainted with rock and roll photographers who introduced her to their world of professional photography. Her interest led to taking photography classes at the Southwest Craft Center where she studied under photographer Tom Wright. She quickly became captivated with the art form and started freelancing as a rock and roll photographer. Around this time, Vargas also became familiar with Chicano art and the artist group Con Safo, co-founded by Mel Casas. Vargas and Casas maintained their friendship until his death.

In addition to attending the Southwest Craft Center, Vargas also attended San Antonio College. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1981 and a Master of Fine Art in 1984 from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Vargas has exhibited her work, as well as curated numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, collaborating with colleagues such as Jim Goldberg, close friend Lucy Lippard, and others. Vargas is a professor and art department chair at the University of the Incarnate Word where she developed a Bachelor of Fine Art program for photography. Previously she was the Visual Arts Director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center.
Related Materials:
Also found at the Archives of American Art is an oral history with Kathy Vargas conducted by Jacinto Quirarte, in San Antonio, Texas on November 7-25, 1997 for the Archives of American Art.
Provenance:
The Kathy Vargas papers were donated in 2016 by Vargas.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Occupation:
Photographers -- Texas -- San Antonio  Search this
Educators -- Texas -- San Antonio  Search this
Topic:
Women artists  Search this
Latino and Latin American artists  Search this
Women educators  Search this
Women photographers  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Video recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.vargkath
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Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9df2e88f7-b49c-4ab4-8553-20879b653cff
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-vargkath

Jim Goldberg, Donovan Wylie

Title:
Candy
Good and spacious land
Writer of added commentary:
Klatell, Christopher  Search this
Wexler, Laura  Search this
Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953- Photographs Selections  Search this
Wylie, Donovan 1971- Photographs Selections  Search this
Franks, Pamela Sense of place for New Haven  Search this
Host institution:
Yale University Art Gallery  Search this
Physical description:
1 portfolio (2 unnumbered volumes) illustrations, photographs (chiefly color) 30 x 36 cm + 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages ; 28 x 35 cm)
Type:
Exhibitions
Pictorial works
Expositions
Ouvrages illustrés
Exhibition catalogs
Photobooks
Exhibition, pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition
Livres de photographies
Place:
Connecticut
New Haven
New Haven (Conn.)
United States
Date:
2017
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Vernacular photography  Search this
Street photography  Search this
Portrait photography  Search this
City and town life  Search this
Photographie artistique  Search this
Photographie vernaculaire  Search this
Photographie de rue  Search this
Portraits (Photographie)  Search this
Vie urbaine  Search this
Buildings  Search this
Cities and towns  Search this
Buildings, structures, etc  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1114176

Shooting back : photography by and about the homeless : an exhibition of photographs / by homeless children living in shelters in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area ; with additional photographic projects by Jim Goldberg ... [et al.]

Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Brookman, Philip  Search this
Forché, Carolyn  Search this
Miller, E. Ethelbert  Search this
Art in General, Inc  Search this
Washington Project for the Arts (D.C.)  Search this
Subject:
Goldberg, Jim 1953- Exhibitions  Search this
Physical description:
56 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1991
C1991
Topic:
Homeless children--Exhibitions  Search this
Inner cities--Exhibitions  Search this
Documentary photography  Search this
Call number:
HV4506.W3 S55 1991
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_470708

Rich and poor : photographs / by Jim Goldberg

Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
approximately 200 pages : portraits ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Portraits
Place:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Date:
1985
©1985
Call number:
TR647.G625 R2
TR647.G62 5R2
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_336000

A different kind of order : the ICP Triennial / Joanna Lehan, Kristen Lubben, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers

Title:
ICP Triennial
Author:
ICP Triennial of Photography and Video (2013 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Lehan, Joanna  Search this
Lubben, Kristen  Search this
Phillips, Christopher  Search this
Squiers, Carol 1948-  Search this
International Center of Photography  Search this
Subject:
Arden, Roy  Search this
Bhabha, Huma 1962-  Search this
Blake, Nayland 1960-  Search this
Burns, A. K. 1975-  Search this
Domanović, Aleksandra 1981-  Search this
Evron, Nir 1974-  Search this
Falls, Sam  Search this
Foglia, Lucas 1983-  Search this
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Henner, Mishka  Search this
Hirschhorn, Thomas  Search this
Hundley, Elliott 1975-  Search this
Laric, Oliver 1981-  Search this
Longacre-White, Andrea 1980-  Search this
Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael  Search this
Mendel, Gideon  Search this
Molina-Pantin, Luis 1969-  Search this
Mroué, Rabih 1967-  Search this
Wangechi Mutu  Search this
Nishino, Sohei 1982-  Search this
Oppenheim, Lisa  Search this
Paglen, Trevor  Search this
Raad, Walid 1967-  Search this
Ross, Nica 1983-  Search this
Schmelling, Michael  Search this
Steyerl, Hito  Search this
Subotzky, Mikhael 1981-  Search this
Waterhouse, Patrick 1981-  Search this
Takeda, Shimpei 1982-  Search this
International Center of Photography  Search this
Physical description:
191, [1] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) : 27 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2013
[2013]
21st century
Topic:
Photography  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Video art  Search this
Installations (Art)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1011200

Rich and poor / Jim Goldberg

Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
224 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrated, portraits ; 33 cm + 1 folded sheet : all color illustrations ; 21 x 510 cm
Type:
Portraits
Biography
Catalogs
Place:
United States
San Francisco (Calif.)
Date:
2013
Topic:
Social classes  Search this
Rich people  Search this
Poor  Search this
Income distribution  Search this
Portrait photography  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1044434

Raised by wolves : photographs and documents of runaways by Jim Goldberg

Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Brookman, Philip  Search this
Weber, John S., 1955-  Search this
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  Search this
Subject:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
Folded sheet ([4] p.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Interviews
Date:
1997
Topic:
Runaway teenagers--Photography  Search this
Call number:
TR647 .G653 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_945843

Open see / Jim Goldberg

Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson  Search this
Subject:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
4 v. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 26 cm., in 22 x 26 cm. slipcase
Type:
Exhibitions
Pictorial works
Place:
Europe
Date:
2009
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Refugees  Search this
Immigrants  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Call number:
TR647 .G653 2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_927300

Hospice : a photographic inquiry / photographs by Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack Radcliffe, Kathy Vargas ; edited by Dena Andre, Philip Brookman, and Jane Livingston ; with essays by Marilyn Webb and Jane Livingston ; interviews by Philip Brookman ; stills from a film by Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, and Albert Maysles

Author:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Andre, Dena  Search this
Brookman, Philip  Search this
Livingston, Jane  Search this
Corcoran Gallery of Art  Search this
National Hospice Foundation (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
170 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Miscellanea
Place:
United States
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
Hospices--Pictorial works  Search this
Hospice care--Pictorial works  Search this
Hospice care  Search this
Portrait photography  Search this
Terminally ill--Portraits  Search this
Call number:
TR681.T47 H67 1996
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_548320

Rochester 585/716 / conceived and edited by Jim Goldberg, Chris Klatell, and Donovan Wylie ; photographs by Chien-Chi Chang [and ten others] ; texts by Cornelius Eady [and five others]

Title:
585 716
Editor:
Goldberg, Jim 1953-  Search this
Klatell, Chris  Search this
Wylie, Donovan 1971-  Search this
Author:
Chang, Chien-Chi 1961- Photographs Selections  Search this
Author:
Eady, Cornelius 1954-  Search this
Subject:
Eastman Kodak Company of New York  Search this
Physical description:
454 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 digital C-print (21 x 26 cm)
Type:
Books
Pictorial works
Place:
New York (State)
Rochester
Rochester (N.Y.)
Date:
2015
Topic:
Documentary photography  Search this
Portrait photography  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1061835

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