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CS_00/CS_12.1. Documentary Photography

 Collecting Area Term
Identifier: CS_00/CS_12.1

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Body of War film print

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.03454
Abstract

The documentary film Body of War, produced by University of Texas Radio-TV-Film professor Ellen Spiro and journalist Phil Donahue, tells the story of the return home of Tomas Young, a U.S. soldier wounded during his service in the Iraq War. The documentary received several awards, including Best Documentary from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

Dates: 2007

Ave Bonar photographs

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.00347
Abstract

Ave Bonar's photographic subjects range from the Texas gubernatorial campaign of Ann W. Richards to images of the earliest known trailer park in Austin, Texas.

Dates: 1974 - 2010

Patsy Cravens photographic archive

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.00044
Abstract

Photographs of Colorado County, Texas, and Jasper, Texas, taken by Patsy Cravens.

Dates: circa 1950-2001

Walter Lawrence Daniel photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.00322
Abstract

The Walter Lawrence Daniel Collection consists of photographic prints and negatives, many of them in panoramic format.

Dates: 1918 - 1958

Oscar Decker photographs

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.03865
Scope and Contents Ranging in date from 1964 to 2015, the Oscar Decker Photographs consist of 1.5 linear feet of 35mm film negatives, color and black and white photographic prints, and publications and printed materials featuring Decker’s commercial photography taken in and around Austin, Texas. The archive also includes Decker’s Backline! Stones in the Mirror, 1994-2005, a photo essay documenting the Rolling Stones backstage. The archive’s political coverage includes...
Dates: 1964 - 2015

Robert A. Freson photographic archive

 Collection
Identifier: camh-arc-004132
Abstract

The Robert Freson made photographs documenting American culture through its fashions, food, architecture, and celebrities. The archive contains photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, tear sheets, notes, and diaries. It is estimated to contain two and a half tons of photographs, about 350,000 images, spanning approximately 70 years, from the 1940s to the 2000s.

Dates: 1938 - 2016

Thomas H. and Joan Gandy photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.03457
Abstract

The Thomas and Joan Gandy Photograph Collection consists of 114 exhibit prints made from photographs by the Norman Studio and Henry Gurney, then collected by Dr. Thomas H. Gandy.

Dates: circa 1870-1930

Mark Goodman photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.01234
Scope and Contents

Photographs by Mark Goodman from the series "5 Cities, Urban Texas: A View from Main Street," produced with the assistance of a University Research Institute grant. All photographs were taken along Main Street (or looking back towards or away from it) in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and El Paso.

Dates: 1985

Jesse Herrera photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.01112
Scope and Contents Thirty-one of the prints in this collection document Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Austin, Texas, in 1989. They were exhibited at the Center for American History in 1990 as part of Herrera’s master’s thesis. The photographs portray the church, its members, activities, and role in this predominantly Mexican American East Austin community. A second series of 20 prints was shown as part of the Center’s “Faces of Texas, Images of Diversity: Photographs by Jesse Herrera and Mary Lee...
Dates: circa 1987-1999

Shel Hershorn photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: urn:taro:utexas.cah.00124
Abstract Based in Dallas for most of his photojournalism career, Shel Hershorn's work for BlackStar publishing, Life, Time, and Sports Illustrated reflected mostly Texas themes. The archive is comprised of a variety of photographic formats, including color and black and white 35mm negatives, mounted and unmounted photographic prints, positive transparencies (slides), and black and white and color...
Dates: circa 1953-1996