Margery Mann files on photography
name: label: Creator
content: Mann, Margery
label: Names
content: Group f.64
label: Names
content: Bullock, Wynn
label: Photographer
content: Connor, Linda, 1944-
label: Photographer
content: Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976
label: Photographer
content: Dater, Judy
label: Names
content: Graham, Martha
label: Photographer
content: Heinecken, Robert, 1931-
label: Photographer
content: Noggle, Anne, 1922-
label: Photographer
content: Rice, Leland, 1940-
label: Names
content: Ruscha, Edward
label: Photographer
content: Swedlund, Charles
label: Photographer
content: Tress, Arthur
label: Photographer
content: Uelsmann, Jerry, 1934-
label: Photographer
content: Walker, Todd
label: Photographer
content: Welpott, Jack, 1923-
label: Photographer
content: Weston, Brett
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- California
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- California
label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California
label: Topic
content: Photography, Artistic
label: Topic
content: Portrait photography
label: Topic
content: Photography -- History -- Sources
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women art critics
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Cunningham interview was donated by Mann in 1975; the remainder by Mann's husband, Thomas K. Vasey, 1978.
creator: label: Creator
content: Mann, Margery
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Photographer, photography historian and critic; Davis, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.2 Linear Feet ((on 14 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mannmarg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1860-1872 & 5051 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: List of subject files is available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Over 600 subject files containing Mann's research on the history of photography; and an extensive interview conducted by Mann with Imogen Cunningham.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1860-1872: 630 files cover photographers, photo exhibitions, societies, publications, and collections and contain biographical information, correspondence, published and unpublished transcripts by Mann, exhibition catalogs and announcements, price lists, photographs, organization records, clippings and printed material along with Mann's interviews of Wynn Bullock, Imogen Cunningham (partial), and Edward Ruscha. Photographs are by Linda Connor, Imogen Cunningham (includes one of dancer Martha Graham), Judy Dater (of Cunningham), Robert Heinecken, Anne Noggle, Leland Rice, Charles Swedlund, Arthur Tress, Jerry Uelsmann, Todd Walker, Jack Welpott, and Brett Weston.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 5051 (fr. 390-600): Interview (232 p. transcript from 3 sound reels, 3 in.) of Imogen Cunningham conducted by Mann, 1960-1973, in preparation for her book, Imogen Cunningham: Photographs. Cunningham speaks of the sale and exhibition of her prints; being a "darkroom slave"; portrait photography; photographs as documents; the "soft-focus era"; teaching; and the f/64 Group. Cunningham comments on 104 of her photographs, including her portraits of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, Martha Graham, Cary Grant, Alfred Stieglitz, Upton Sinclair, Adedee Ozenfant, Frieda Kahlo Rivera, Getrude Stein, Shen Yao, Lyonel Feininger, Morris Graves, Anna Freud, and Minor White. She recalls Diane Arbus, Arthur Fellig, Paul Strand, and others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Files of Margery Mann, 1919-1977, are also located at the National Gallery of Australia.