Ray McSavaney collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to McSavaney’s book Explorations: A Photographic Journey includes negatives, correspondence, project files, book mockups and layout templates, proofs, and the published book. There are also materials relating to McSavaney’s photographic workshops, handwritten essays, brochures, and other ephemera.
Dates
- 1980-2014, bulk 1990-1993
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement
Biographical Note
Ray McSavaney (1938-2014) was an American photographer based in Los Angeles, California. McSavaney enjoyed the visual arts from an early age and family vacations inspired his interest in landscape photography. He graduated from UCLA in 1963 where he majored in Art and Design. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was trained by the Army in photogrammetry and drafting. After the Army, McSavaney returned to Los Angeles and worked for Summa Corporation on development projects.
McSavaney became serious about photography in the mid-1960s, and his photography career developed. In the early 1970s, McSavaney enrolled in workshop hosted by Ansel Adams, which pushed him further into classical black and white landscape photography. McSavaney participated in several Sierra Club photography workshops, and formed a friendship with photographer Bruce Barnbaum. McSavaney left his employment with Summa Corporation in the late 1970s and started his own career in fine art photography. He and Barnbaum founded the Owens Valley Photography Workshops program, later joined by John Sexton. This Workshop ended in 1990, and McSavaney started his own photography workshops.
Although his strength is in black-and-white Western landscape photography, other projects have included urban scenes and architecture, botanical studies, street portraiture, and color photography.
Extent
4.5 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Materials relating to the photographic career of Ray McSavaney include his photo book Explorations: A Photographic Journey and accompanying book production materials, which includes negatives, prints and layouts. Explorations features seven essays written by McSavaney, which describe his photographic methods, philosophy, and his subject matter. Additional materials include photographic workshop brochures, published materials, and 2 CDS with Flowers animation and a PDF book dummy.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Activity Files, 1980-2014
Custodial History
The collection is a gift of the Estate of Ray McSavaney, donated in 2017.
Separated Materials
16 prints in the Fine Print collection at CCP.
Processing Information
Processed by Alexis Peregoy in 2018.
- Title
- Ray McSavaney collection, 1980-2014, bulk 1990-1993
- Author
- Finding aid created by Alexis Peregoy
- Date
- © 2020
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
