Oral history interview with Kenneth Josephson
name: label: Interviewee
content: Josephson, Kenneth, 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
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content: Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project
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content: Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Josephson, Kenneth, 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Kenneth Josephson (1932- ) is a photographer in Chicago, Illinois. Lanny Silverman (1947- ) is a curator at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (sound files (3 hrs., 26 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 85 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015 September 29-30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.joseph15
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Kenneth Josephson conducted 2015 September 29-30, by Lanny Silverman, for the Archives of American Art's Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project, at Josephson's home and studio in Chicago, Illinois.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Josephson speaks of visiting libraries and museums as a child growing up in Detroit, MI; his undergraduate education at the Rochester Institute of Technology; his photographic influences, including Conceptual and avant-garde photographers; joining the Army at the end of the Korean War; how working as a photographer at Chrysler influenced his style; attending graduate school at the Illinois Institute of Design; his early film artworks; his style of incorporating images within images; showing his work at galleries in New York, including the Light Gallery; his more recent collaborations with his partner, Marilyn Zimmerwoman; his compositional style and aesthetic choices; and censorship in art and photography. Josephson also recalls Beaumont Newhall, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Arthur Sinsabaugh, John Szarkowski, and others.