Craig Sterling Washington, D.C. Photoprints
name: label: Photographer
content: Sterling, Craig
label: Names
content: Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
label: Names
content: United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
place: label: Place
content: Washington (D.C.) -- 1990-2000
label: Place
content: Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Arboretums
label: Topic
content: Memorials -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Cities and towns
label: Topic
content: Monuments -- Washington (D.C.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Craig Sterling
creator: label: Photographer
content: Sterling, Craig
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content: Craig Sterling Washington, D.C. Photoprints
abstract: label: Summary
content: Black and white photoprints by photographer Craig Sterling, made in the 1990s as part of an ongoing series depicting familiar buildings, monuments, and other sites in Washington, D.C., including the U.S. Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Arboretum.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Craig Sterling is an American art photographer who studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California.  He cites the photography of Ansel Adams, Arnold Newman, and Eugene Atget as having had the greatest influence on his work.  Sterling, who works exclusively in black-and-white, using a wide range of equipment, makes his own silver gelatin and pigment prints.  He often prefers the square format of Hasselblad cameras.  He has maintained a studio at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia since 2001.

His photographs, which display a largely pictorialist style, are in the collections of other institutions, such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Oakland Museum.  His work has appeared in group exhibitions at the Art League Gallery (Alexandria Virginia), the University of Maine Museum of Art (Bangor, Maine), the Baldwin Photographic Gallery (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn.), the Oakland Museum (Oakland, California), the Philip Weiss Gallery (London), among many others, especially in the Washington and Virginia areas.

His other photographic activities have included teaching at the Art League, Alexandria, Va.; PhotoWorks at Glen Echo Park, Bethesda, Md.; and the Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program.  He also served as curator for an exhibition, "The Photographs of Alexander Gardner," at the Washington Center for Photography.  He has a Web site at http://www.craigsterling.com/.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box, 16" x 20" x 1")
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0805
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into one series.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1990-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The photographs in this collection were made in the 1990s by Craig Sterling as part of an ongoing series depicting familiar buildings, monuments, and other sites in Washington, D.C.  These prints are silver gelatin.  Nine of them, unmated and unmounted, were made on 16" x 20" with wide margins (actual image sizes are shown below).  The other three prints are in window mats, 16" x 16".