Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Film

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The Interviews and Oral Histories collection reflects audiovisual recordings created or acquired by the Center for Creative Photography. Recordings include interviews, lectures, gallery walk-throughs, symposia, and workshops with photographers, curators, and scholars who have visited the Center for Creative Photography since 1975.

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Papers, writings, research files, teaching materials, audiovisual and photographic materials, books, periodicals, and computerized database of photographer and educator Bill Jay (1940 - 2009).

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Photographic materials of Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), Japanese-born painter and photographer who worked in New York from 1910 until his death. Includes 35mm black and white negatives, 1935-1941, and work prints of portraits and scenes at Woodstock, New York.

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Project and teaching files, exhibition files, publications and printed material, and photographic materials from the 1970s through 2016 of Joan Liftin (1935-), photographer and teacher.

Scope and Contents Materials in this collection surround research conducted by art historian and author Sarah M. Lowe regarding Italian-born photographer Tina Modotti. The collection includes the following series: Series 1, Correspondence, bulk 1985-1994, includes correspondence both to and from Sarah M. Lowe as she searched for information pertaining to Tina Modotti's life and works for her dissertation, s well as subsequent publications and exhibitions. Series 2, Teaching...

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Papers, photographic materials, and audio-visual materials, (1896-2008), of Rosalie Thorne McKenna (1918-2003) photographer, filmmaker, and writer. Includes correspondence, biographical materials, writings, research files, publications, exhibition files, negatives, study and contact prints, and other materials documenting the life and career of Rosalie Thorne McKenna.

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Papers and photographic materials, 1911-1998, of Hansel Mieth (1909-1998) and Otto Hagel (1909-1973), photographers. Includes correspondence, writings, exhibition materials, tear sheets, clippings, publications, photographic materials, and audiovisual materials.

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Papers, publications, and photographic materials, 1942-2001, of the photographer, Wayne Miller (1918 – 2013). Included are correspondence, book dummies, publications, negatives, and contact sheets. Most of Miller’s photographic work was based in Chicago, Illinois and Northern California. Also, included are Miller’s files related to his role in the organization of “The Family of Man” exhibition in 1955.

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Papers and photographic materials relating to the life of Barbara Morgan (1900-1992), photographer. Includes correspondence, tearsheets, clippings, promotional leaflets, and reprints of writing.

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Typed and handwritten manuscripts (circa 1936-1941) consisting of working papers, research, and text for Morgan’s book Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941). These manuscript pages are unnumbered, but they were arranged in labeled sections by Morgan. NOTE: The University of Arizona Library has a copy of the published book (GV1785.G7M6).

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Photographic materials, 1930s- 1980, of Wright Morris (1910-1998), photographer and writer. Consists of black and white film negatives in a variety of formats, color 35 mm slides, videotapes, and a small selection of portraits of Morris and his wife, Josephine.

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This collection contains materials relating to the New Documents Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 1967. Contained in the exhibit was work by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand. Seven 8 x 10 inch prints showing installation views of the exhibit are included as are five photocopied pages of contact sheets documenting the photographs in the exhibit. The collection is inactive.

Abstract Correspondence, writings, and subject files, 1930-1983, of Beaumont Newhall (l908-1993), and Nancy Newhall (l908-1974), art historians, curators, teachers, and authors. Includes correspondence with noted photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and others; published and unpublished manuscripts by Nancy Newhall concerning Ansel Adams, such as Death Valley (l953), The Eloquent Light (l963), and The Enduring Moment (ca.1971); writings by Beaumont Newhall including Photography: Essays and...

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Miscellaneous materials documenting the life and career of Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993), photohistorian, photographer, writer, and curator.

Abstract Papers and photographic materials, 1920s - 1983, relating to the career of Marion Palfi (1907 - 1978), photographer. The bulk of this collection documents her activities as a photographer, teacher, researcher, and social critic during the period from 1945 to 1978. There is little documentation of her first career in Germany as an actress, model, and dancer. The correspondence contains letters, telegrams, and postcards between Palfi and friends, photographers, scholars, writers, publishers,...

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This collection contains miscellaneous materials (1925-2006) documenting the life and career of Marion Palfi (1907-1978), photographer. Each group of materials was acquired from separate sources and are described separately.

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Portraits of photographers, 1872 - 2013, from various sources. The collection includes postcards, transparencies, color, and black-and-white photographs, and snapshots of noted photographers.

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Papers and research materials (1918-1999, bulk 1976-1998) for books, articles, and reviews by noted photography historian, Naomi Rosenblum (1925-2021). Includes notes, clippings, publications, correspondence, and slides that were collected as research materials for the 2009 revision of Rosenblum’s 1994 monograph A History of Women Photographers; lecture notes; and exhibition materials. Of special note are her research files assembled while writing her 1978 dissertation on Paul Strand.

Abstract Papers and photographic materials, circa 1930-1992, of and collected by photographer and book artist Irene Shwachman, 1915-1988. In addition to materials by and about Shwachman, the collection also contains materials related to photographer Berenice Abbott, documenting Shwachman’s and Abbott’s working relationship and friendship. The collection includes correspondence, monographs, clippings, book project materials, negatives, transparencies, and contact sheets. Shwachman projects documented...

Abstract Papers, photographic materials, audio-visual materials, and memorabilia, ca. 1925 - 1991, of Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991), photographer and teacher. Includes correspondence; handwritten and typed drafts of writings; exhibition and business files; publications files including book dummies, galleys, proof prints, etc.; photographic materials including contact sheets, negatives, work prints, and transparencies; audio/visual material including film, video, and audio interviews; and memorabilia...

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Papers, photographic materials, and memorabilia of photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon (1930- ). Materials include correspondence, biographical materials, activity files, exhibitions, travel files, project files, publications and clippings, business records, as well as audiovisual and photographic materials. The collection actively receives materials on a periodic basis.

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This artificial collection contains materials related to the life and career of Edward Steichen (1879-1973). The items in this collection have been assembled from a number of different sources and do not constitute any part of the official Edward Steichen Archive.

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This collection contains papers, 1930s through 1980s, of Virginia Stevens (1912? - ) actress and writer, who was the second wife of Paul Strand from 1936-1949. Includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, exhibition catalogs, pamphlets, manuscript text of speeches, and other writings by Paul Strand. Subjects covered include Stieglitz, Time in New England, the Mexican Portfolio, films, and other exhibitions of Strand's work.

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Activity files, biographical information, correspondence, printed materials, and scrapbooks, of Paul Strand (1890-1976), photographer, filmmaker, and writer. Much of the collection is correspondence relating to Strand's publications, exhibitions, films, friends, and colleagues including Ansel Adams, John Marin, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, and others.

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Miscellaneous papers and other materials documenting the life and career of Paul Strand (1890-1976), photographer. Includes correspondence, clippings, and photographic materials from various sources. Of special interest is a clay pot purchased in Morocco by Paul Strand. Each group of materials is described separately.

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Text, dummy, and layout to an exhibition catalog for Edmund Teske(1911-1996), photographer and teacher, relating to his show at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1974.

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Papers and memorabilia, 1960–1988, of George Tice (1938- ), photographer. Certificates and awards document his many successes in competitions sponsored by local photography clubs in the United States and abroad. Included also are some exhibition catalogs; printed materials from his limited edition portfolios with introductions by Jacob Deschin and Lee D. Witkin; and book dummies. The collection is still active.

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Papers, photographic materials, and audio-visual materials, 1915-1986, of Willard Van Dyke (1906-1986) photographer, filmmaker, curator, and teacher. Includes correspondence, memoranda, writings, biographical information, exhibition announcements, clippings, publications, financial, insurance and medical records, negatives, study and contact prints, and other materials documenting the life and career of Van Dyke.

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This collection contains miscellaneous materials (1984-1992) documenting the life and career of Willard Van Dyke (1906-1986), photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and curator. Each group of materials is described separately.

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The papers and photographic materials of photographer and educator Laura Volkerding (1939-1996). The collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, negatives, contact sheets, 35mm slides, audio visual materials, work prints, visual artifacts, publications, and ephemera of and about Laura Volkerding.