AG 108
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Overview of the Collection | |
| Creator: | Ben Maddow (1909-1992) . |
| Title: | Ben Maddow Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1942-1986 |
| Quantity: | 1 Box |
| Abstract: | This collection contains materials, 1942-1986, pertaining to the life and career of Ben Maddow (1909 - 1992), writer and photo-historian. Each group of materials will be described separately. The collection is active. |
| Identification: | AG 108 |
| Language: | Material in English |
| Repository: |
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona 1030 N. Olive Rd., P.O. Box 210103 Tucson, AZ 85721-0103 Phone: 520-621-6273 Fax: 520-621-9444 Email: info@ccp.arizona.edu URL: http://creativephotography.org |
Born in 1909 in New Jersey, Ben Maddow was a screenwriter, novelist, and photo historian. After retiring from films he became well known for his writings on photography including a bibliography of Edward Weston and the book Faces: A Narrative History of the Portrait in Photography. He died in Los Angeles in 1992. (NYT Obituary)
This collection contains materials, 1942-1986, pertaining to the life and career of Ben Maddow (1909 - 1992), writer and photo-historian. Each group of materials will be described separately.
Series 1 contains information pertaining to the life and career of Willard Van Dyke (1906-1986), photographer, curator, teacher, and filmmaker. It includes correspondence, photographic materials, and writings. Series 2 contains information pertaining to the life and career of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), photojournalist. It includes correspondence and writings.
Access to this collection requires an appointment with the Volkerding Study Center.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement
Materials acquired from Ben Maddow.
Series 1: 1986-1988
Series 2: 1986-1987
Ben Maddow Collection, 1942-1986. AG 108. Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
The materials in Subgroups 1 and 2 were withdrawn from MISCELLANEOUS SMALL COLLECTIONS (AG 8, Subgroup 41) by Kristi Bradford in June, 1990.
Finding aid updated by Meghan Jordan in May 2016.
| Series 1 Willard Van Dyke biographical materials | |||||||||||
| Contains information pertaining to the life and career of Willard Van Dyke (1906-1986), photographer, curator, teacher, and filmmaker. Includes correspondence, photographic materials, and writings. Gift of Ben Maddow, 1986, 1987, 1988. . | |||||||||||
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| 1 | Correspondence with Willard Van Dyke, 1976-1985 | ||||||||||
| 6 cards and 5 letters . | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Snapshot of Van Dyke in Colombia, 1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Photocopy of the beginning chapters of Maddow's account of a trip to South America in 1941-1942 with Willard Van Dyke | |||||||||
| . 104 pages of photocopies reproducing the handwritten pages of an unlined notebook. | |||||||||||
| Series 2 W. Eugene Smith biographical materials | |||||||||||
| Contains information pertaining to the life and career of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), photojournalist. Includes correspondence and writings. Gift of Ben Maddow, 1986 and 1987 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Photocopy of a letter, 6 December 1971, from W. Eugene Smith to a pawn broker, Harry Harlem, requesting several items he needed to get from the pawn broker. | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Text of a speech, 1986, written by Maddow about W. Eugene Smith. The speech is titled "An Ironic Distance", and Maddow uses quotes from the 1971 letter Smith wrote to a pawn broker (see previous description). | |||||||||
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| CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX | |||||||||||
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1940-1949
1970-1979
1980-1989
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| EXHIBITION INDEX-None | |||||||||||
| NON-MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL INDEX-None | |||||||||||
| PERIODICAL INDEX-None | |||||||||||
| PERSONAL AND CORPORATE NAME INDEX | |||||||||||
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Maddow, Ben
Smith, W. Eugene
Van Dyke, Willard
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| SUBJECT INDEX | |||||||||||
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MADDOW, BEN
SMITH, W. EUGENE
VAN DYKE, WILLARD
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