Vivienne Silver collection
Scope and Contents
The Vivienne Silver collection contains materials related to the master’s thesis of Vivienne Silver-Brody while at the University of Arizona, Tucson, titled “The artistic development and evolution of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer, as seen through his nudes,” 1980.
Series 1 of the Vivienne Silver collection contains transcripts of interviews with Manuel Álvarez Bravo about his photographs of the nude. They are in English.
Series 2 contains nineteen audiocassettes of interviews in French, Spanish, and English about Manuel Álvarez Bravo, from July and August 1979.
Dates
- 1979
Creator
- Silver-Brody, Vivienne (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in French Spanish English
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
Some restrictions may apply. See the Archivist for information.
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Biographical Note
Vivienne Silver-Brody is a photo historian, free-lance curator, and teacher. Her specialty is in collecting Israeli photography. In 1985 she opened the Silver Print Gallery in Jerusalem, the first of its kind in the area.
Extent
0.50 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
This collection contains nineteen 60-minute audiocassettes of interviews done by Vivienne Silver-Brody, historian, for her master’s thesis at the University of Arizona, Tucson. The subject of the interviews was Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), photographer, and his photography of the nude. The interviews took place in July and August, 1979. The collection also includes photocopies of transcripts with handwritten notations. The collection is inactive.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Transcripts, 1979
- Series 2: Audiocassettes, 1979
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was a gift of Vivienne Silver-Brody, 1980.
Processing Information
Vivienne Silver collection, 1979. AG 106.
- Title
- Vivienne Silver collection 1979
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- 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
