The photographs of James Wallace Black views of the ruins of the great fire in Boston, November, 1872, from the collection of the library of the Boston Athenaeum : catalogue and exhibition by Stephen Robert Edidin
A strange heaven contemporary Chinese photography = huan ying tian tang : Zhonghua dang dai she ying ji [curators, Chang Tsong-zung, Petr Nedoma ; editor, Susan Acret]
Title:
A strange heaven : contemporary Chinese photography = 幻影天堂 : 中華當代攝影集 / [curators, Chang Tsong-zung, Petr Nedoma]
Contemporary Chinese photography
Huan ying tian tang : Zhonghua dang dai she ying ji
Photography, art and artifact : photographs from the collection of Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, cameras from the Photographic Historical Society of New York : May 13-June 18, 1978, the Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Flushing, N.Y
Author:
Photographic Historical Society of New York Search this
A Century of photography : an exhibition featuring antique cameras, vintage photographs, contemporary images, and holograms, November 16 to December 23, 1980
The new Bauhaus, School of Design in Chicago : photographs 1937-1944 : László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes, Arthur Siegel, Nathan Lerner, James Hamilton Brown / organized by Adam J. Boxer
Metamorphose/two : the photographer's interpretation of Saint Paul/76, emerging center of business, education, and the arts : a bicentennial exhibition at the permanent collection gallery, 10 November-27 December, 1976
Life and dreams contemporary Chinese photography and media art edited by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung ; featuring works by Ai Weiwei [and forty-three others] ; essays by Christopher Phillips [and eight others] ; conversations by Christopher Phillips [and three others]
Contributor:
Phillips, Christopher (Christopher Joel) 1950- Search this
An interview of Don Camp conducted 1991 June 6, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
Camp discusses his family, childhood and education; serving in the military; teaching himself photography; interest in the work of Eugene Smith and Roy de Carava; working for the Philadelphia "Bulletin"; the importance of the Bahai religion; graduate work at Temple University's Tyler School of Art; the development of his photographic style; racism and multiculturalism; and the artists' group Recherché.
Biographical / Historical:
Donald Eugene Camp (1940- ) is a photographer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
General:
Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 13 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
Restrictions:
Patrons must use microfilm copy.
Occupation:
Photographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Search this
Topic:
Photography, Artistic -- United States Search this
Rachel Harrison life hack Elisabeth Sussman and David Joselit ; with contributions by Johanna Burton, Darby English, Maggie Nelson, and Alexander Nemerov
The Wallace Berman papers date from 1907 to 1979 (bulk 1955-1979). The collection measures 5 linear feet and presents a cursory overview of Berman's career as an assemblage artist and poet. The collection contains business correspondence, letters from other artists and writers of the Beat movement, writings by others, scattered artwork by Berman, photographs by Robert F. Heinecken, and sound recordings of poetry readings.
Scope and Content Note:
The Wallace Berman papers, 1907-1979 (bulk 1955-1979), measure 5 linear feet and present a cursory overview of Berman's career as an assemblage artist and poet. The collection is valuable not only for its documentation of the work of Wallace Berman, but for its documentation of the California beat movement of the late 1950s through the early 1970s.
Found are numerous letters, writings, poems, and other published material which portray the thoughts, attitudes, and trends popular in a prominent underground culture which eventually led to radical changes in America and American art. The collection contains business correspondence, letters from other artists and writers of the beat movement, writings by others, scattered artwork by Berman, and photographs by Robert F. Heinecken. In addition, the collection contains files for Berman's mail art publications Semina and S.M.S. Also of note is the large volume of printed material (2.7 feet), much of it in the form of books and other published material. Sound recordings include poets Michael McClure, Kenneth Patchen, David Melzer, and another unidentified writer performing their work.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into nine series which generally reflect material type.
With the exception of the letters in Series 1, each series is arranged chronologically. The original arrangement of the letters has been maintained, with a chronological arrangement of miscellaneous business letters and an alphabetical arrangement of the letters from Berman's more prominent colleagues.
Missing Title
Series 1: Letters, 1957-1979, undated (box 1, 0.5 linear feet)
Series 2: Notes from Interview, 1967 (box 1, 1 folder)
Series 3: Writings by Others, 1972, undated (box 1, 6 folders)
Series 4: Artwork, 1956-1976 (box 1, 4 folders)
Series 5: Semina, 1955-1967 (boxes 1-2, 26 folders)
Series 6: S. M. S., 1968 (box 2, 1 folders)
Series 7: Printed Material, 1907-1976 (boxes 2-5, 2.7 linear feet)
Series 8: Photographs, 1956-1976 (box 5, 6 folders)
Series 9: Sound Recordings, 1962-1965 (box 5, 6 folders)
Biographical Note:
Wallace Berman was born in 1926 in Staten Island, New York. In the 1930s, his family moved to the Jewish district in Los Angeles. After being expelled from high school for gambling in the early 1940s, Berman immersed himself in the growing West Coast jazz scene. During this period, he briefly attended the Jepson Art School and Chouinard Art School, but departed when he found the training too academic for his needs.
In 1949, while working in a factory finishing antique furniture, he began to make sculptures from unused scraps and reject materials. By the early 1950s, Berman had become a full-time artist and an active figure in the beat community in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Many art historians consider him to be the "father" of the California assemblage movement. Moving between the two cities, Berman devoted himself to his mail art publication Semina, which contained a sampling of beat poetry and images selected by Berman.
In 1963, permanently settled in Topanga Canyon in the Los Angeles area, Berman began work on verifax collages (printed images, often from magazines and newspapers, mounted in collage fashion onto a flat surface, sometimes with solid bright areas of acrylic paint). He continued creating these works, as well as rock assemblages, until his death in 1976.
Provenance:
The Wallace Berman papers were donated by Tosh Berman, Wallace Berman's son, in 1992.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Patrons must use microfilm copy. Use of audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
