Christel Gang collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
Consists primarily of correspondence from Edward Weston to Christel Gang, 1932-1956. These letters are expressions of love, thanks, and greetings in response to Gang's annual letters to Weston on their "anniversary" August 9, on Weston's birthday March 24, and on Christmas. Other topics mentioned are: Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Guggenheim Fellowship project, personal and family activities during the war, and the national elections in the l940s. Correspondence in the 1950s is chiefly about Weston's failing health, gratitude for Gang's regular letters and shipments of fruit, and news of family and friends.
(36 letters and 28 postcards)
Also includes 4 letters from Brett Weston; 9 brochures, pamphlets, and announcements; 13 clippings about Edward Weston (many about his death); 2 photocopies of Brett Weston portraits of Christel Gang
All correspondence are arranged in chronological order.
Dates
- 1932-1967
Creator
- Gang, Christel, 1892-1966 (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
Literary rights to the Edward Weston letters are held by the Center for Creative Photography.
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
Christel Gang was born in Germany in 1892 and later immigrated to Los Angeles in 1906, where she worked as a stenographer and translator. In 1925, she met photographer Edward Weston who hired her to take dictation of his original daybooks. Gang and Weston became lovers and he photographed her frequently. Even after their romantic relationship ended they continued to be friends, writing letters to each other regularly. Gang died in 1966.
Extent
1 Box (fraction of a linear foot)
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Correspondence, 1932-1956, primarily to Christel Gang from Edward Weston (1886-1958), photographer. Also includes correspondence from Edward Weston to Seymour Stern; four letters from Brett Weston to Gang; and clippings and brochures relating to Edward, Brett, and Cole Weston, ca. 1950-1967. Gang was a friend of Edward Weston and briefly provided secretarial services to him.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1:Correspondence (Box 1)
- Series 2: Photocopies of portraits of Christel Gang by Brett Weston, n.d. (Box 1)
- Series 3: Printed material (Box 1)
Custodial History
The Christel Gang Collection was purchased from the Witkin Gallery in 1980.
Processing Information
Inventory revised July 1989, Leslie Calmes.
Finding aid updated by Meghan Jordan in May 2016.
Source
- Guggenheim Fellowship Project (Organization)
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Film (Organization)
- Group f.64 (Organization)
- Title
- Christel Gang Collection 1932-1967
- Author
- Finding aid created by Lenox Wiese
- Date
- © 2016
- 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
