Roy Sieber Photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Sieber, Roy, 1923-2001
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Ghana
label: Place
content: Cameroon
creator: label: Photographer
content: Sieber, Roy, 1923-2001
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content: Roy Sieber Photographs
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: American historian Roy Sieber (1923-2001) is considered the founder of the discipline of African art history in the United States.  He graduated from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1949, earned his M.A. at the University of Iowa (1951) and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University (1951), where he taught art history from 1950 to 1962.  He joined Indiana University as an associate professor in 1962, one of the original scholars in the University's nascent African Studies Program as the Rudy Professor of Fine Arts.  Sieber worked as the Associate Director for Collections and Research at the National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution) from 1983 to 1993, where he was responsible for evaluating collection research and developing acquisition standards. Sieber received the first Leadership Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association in 1986.  

Througout his career Sieber produced significant publications and served as lecturer and visiting professor at several universities in Africa as well as the United States.  He was a member of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Africa between 1963 and 1971 and later the African Studies Association and the primitive art advisory committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 845 Slides (photographs) (color)
label: Extent
content: 845 Slides (photographs) (dupe slides, color)
label: Extent
content: 1068 Negatives (photographic) (+ field notes & contact prints , black & white, 35 mm.)
label: Extent
content: 1,054 Photographic prints (black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958-1991
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Roy Sieber, 1993.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1993-009
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
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content: Photographic prints
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content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Black-and-white negatives
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged chronologically
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
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content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white negatives