Photographic Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Starr, Nina Howell, 1903-2000
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content: Nina Howell Starr papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 16-23, OV 24)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1939-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.starnina, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is arranged as 4 subseries:

6.1: Minnie Evans' Artwork

6.2: Folk Art, 1956-1981

6.3: Slides, circa 1950-circa 1983

6.4: General, circa 1939-1993
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of photographs and negatives by Starr.  The majority of the photographs and negatives document friends, family, especially her husband, Nathan C. Starr, artwork, events, including exhibition openings and various celebrations, and Starr's extensive travels to locations including Alaska, Hawaii, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.  At exhibitions or lectures, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Witkin Gallery, she photographed prominent artists and art historians, including photographers Maggie Sherwood, Naomi Savage, Barbara Morgan, Linda Connor, Aaron Siskind, Faith Ringgold, and Walker Evans, and sculptor Helene Brandt, feminist and art historian Pat Mainardi, and curators Henri Ghent and John Szarkowski.    Starr also photographed artist friends including photographer and writer Consuelo Kanaga and figurative sculptor Louise Kruger.

Starr's artistic photographic work is also represented, and includes two silver gelatin prints of Minnie Evans, and subject studies on hands, people, and nature, among others.  She also frequently depicted churches, cemeteries and architectural structures.  Additionally, the series includes photos of Evans' artwork, taken by Starr, negatives of folk art, especially roadside, and slides.