Oral history interview with Don Camp
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 13 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Camp, Donald Eugene, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Hunter, Anne S.
label: Names
content: Tyler School of Art
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Photography, Artistic -- United States
label: Topic
content: Recherché (Group)
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American photographers
label: Topic
content: African American military personnel
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: Camp, Donald Eugene, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Hunter, Anne S.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Donald Eugene Camp (1940- ) is a photographer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 166 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 June 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.camp91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4777 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Don Camp conducted 1991 June 6, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Camp discusses his family, childhood and education; serving in the military; teaching himself photography; interest in the work of Eugene Smith and Roy de Carava; working for the Philadelphia "Bulletin"; the importance of the Bahai religion; graduate work at Temple University's Tyler School of Art; the development of his photographic style; racism and multiculturalism; and the artists' group Recherché.