Negatives
name: label: Item Creator
content: LaDuke, Betty
setName: label: See more items in
content: Betty LaDuke collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2488 Negatives (photographic) (color, 35 mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994-2002
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2007-003, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in rough chronological order.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Not all negatives have prints and not all prints have negatives (see series 1).  Negatives digitized in 2019.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The majority of the negatives were taken in Eritrea, including in Geleba, Massawa, Emebet, Keren, Senafe, Barentu, Asmara, Nakfa, Serona, and Agordat, though some were taken in Ethiopia, especially in Lalibela.  Images depict architecture, agricultural work, village scenes, artists, artists at work, artworks, markets, celebrations, scenic views, drumming and Kunama and Saho people, particularly women and children.  LaDuke documented art workshops that she taught or attended, portraying artists such as Berhane Adonais, Mussie Asgodam, Josief Idris, Elsa Jacob, Isak Fasil, Haile Wolde Michael, Iyassu Terhas, Danny Dafla and Elsa Zaid.  In addition to photographing the artists at work, LaDuke's photos capture the finished, exhibited artworks, including at an art show at the U.S. Information Services (USIS) in Eritrea in 1994.  Some of the photos depict war zones, particularly those in Nakfa and Geleba, showing the Red Cross campsite, internally displaced persons camps, and the Tacoumbia Food Distribution Center.  Other notable subjects include a meeting of the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW), artwork in the Saint George Gallery and children at Dekemhare School.