Alan Strauber Photoprints
name: label: Photographer
content: Strauber, Alan
label: Names
content: Bo Diddley, 1928-2008
label: Names
content: Brown, Jerry, 1942-
label: Names
content: Burrell, Kenny
label: Names
content: Duke, David
label: Names
content: Franklin, Aretha
label: Names
content: Winfield, Dave
place: label: Place
content: Ellis Island (New York, N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Baseball players -- 1990-2000
label: Topic
content: Baseball -- 1990-2000
label: Topic
content: Jazz musicians -- 1950-2000 -- United States
label: Topic
content: Zydeco musicians
label: Topic
content: Musicians, Cajun
label: Topic
content: Blues musicians
label: Topic
content: Jazz -- 1990-2000
label: Topic
content: Carnival -- 1990-2000 -- New Orleans (La.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Alan Strauber, 1994, December 21.
creator: label: Photographer
content: Strauber, Alan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Alan Strauber Photoprints
abstract: label: Summary
content: Forty-one black and white photoprints, most of which are portraits of jazz, blues, Cajun, and zydeco musicians, plus a few additional subjects.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alan Strauber is a photojournalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Downbeat Magazine, and AKC Gazette, among others.  His work is in the collections of Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel), the Delta Blues Museum (Clarksdale, Mississippi), and the National Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, N.Y.).  Among his special photographic interests are the photography of jazz musicians, professional baseball, and politicians; examples are contained in this collection.  His e-mail address is
meandgi@sabbatai.com

He is also a poet and art critic.  An article by Mr. Strauber, "Art entices eyes, ears at Whitney Museum" from the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal, April 11, 2002, is posted on the World Wide Web at http://cityguide.pojonews.com/fe/DayTrips/stories/dt_whitney_museum.asp.

Mr. Strauber is mentioned in on a genealogical site listing his family background, posted in the "Phair Family Circle" at http://www.geocities.com/hmshultz/phair.html.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1990-1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0517
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.

Arranged topically.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 2005.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1980-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These prints are all on fiber-based paper, unmounted.  The subjects include jazz, blues, and zydeco musicians, politicians, and baseball players in action.  All prints copyright 1994 by Alan Strauber, except as otherwise noted, and signed and dated on verso.  All are 8" x 10" except for the 11" x 14" prints in box 2.

The majority of the photographs depict musicians in concert, but additional subjects include professional baseball players, politicians like Jerry Brown, and built structures in the American South and at Ellis Island.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Subjects include Marie Laveau's tomb, Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Michel Doucette, George Porter, Aretha Franklin, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor, Johnny Copland, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, "Snooks" Eaglin, Robert Ward, Bo Diddley, Don Byron, Cajun dancers, David Duke, Jerry Brown, Boozoo Chavis, Terrence Simien, Chubby Carrier, C. J. Chevier, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson, Kenny Burrell, Robben Ford, Kenny Neal, Junior Wells, John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon, a Mardi Gras "Indian," Walter "Wolfman" Washington, and Robert "Junior" Lockwood; Ellis Island; and "Little Wimp's Barbecue House."