Clarence John Laughlin collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
The Clarence John Laughlin Collection includes eight newsletters, miscellaneous small pamphlets and catalogs from 1959-1981, and papers related to Laughlin and his work.
Dates
- undated
Creator
- Laughlin, Clarence John (Person)
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
Clarence John Laughlin was born in Louisiana in 1905 and first picked up a camera at age twenty-five. He worked as a Civil Service photographer with the United States Engineer’s office, a photographer at Vogue magazine, and an assistant photographer at the National Archives in Washington D.C. He is best known for being one of the first surrealists in the United States, creating imagery that linked his love of literature with that of photography. Laughlin died in 1985.
Extent
3 Boxes
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Miscellaneous materials documenting the career and life of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), photographer and author.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into 3 boxes.
Custodial History
The collection is composed of materials donated by Laughlin to the Center over many years.
Processing Information
Finding aid updated by Meghan Jordan in June 2016.
- Title
- Clarence John Laughlin Collection, n.d.
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2019
- 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
