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Title: Christa Zinner photographs
Collection number: 0194
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
13.96 Linear feet
22 boxes
Date: late 1940s-1970s
Abstract: Christa Zinner was a well-known fashion and advertising photographer from the 1940s through the 1970s. Her photographs appeared
in many popular magazines and newspaper supplements including Ebony, Look, Life, Harpers Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, TV Guide,
etc. The collection consists of photographs, negatives, and slides including those not selected for the actual magazines.
Many of the magazines themselves are included in the collection as well as single magazine pages.
creator:
Zinner, Christa
Christa Zinner was born in Germany; visited the US for 14 months as a student and returned permanently two years later; operated
a golf links restaurant; became a fashion model in San Francisco, and became interested in photography (commercial, portrait,
and fashion); managed a photo studio while taking classes at Los Angeles Art Center School; opened her own commercial studio
for fashion photography with an emphasis on editorial assignments; and married motion picture editor and director Peter Zinner.
She is currently a sculptor living in Los Angeles.
Gift of Ms. Zinner, June 8, 1998.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
This collection was processed with the assistance of Ye Fu.
Magazine photographs, proofs, negatives, slides, and prints of Ms. Zinner's professional fashion photography dating from the
late 1940s through the 1970s. Included are fashion photographs for: LIFE, LOOK, Sports Illustrated, Town & Country, Glamour,
Mademoiselle, New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, TV Guide, Ebony, Vanity Fair (British), Brides Magazine, McCall's,
Colliers, American Home, Seventeen, Photoplay, and California Stylist, and photographs of famous personalities for Glamour
Magazine, Columbia Records, Photoplay, and Ebony.
Advance notice required for access.
[Box/folder# or item name], Christa Zinner photographs, Collection no. 0194, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Zinner, Christa -- Archives
Advertising photography--Archival resources
Fashion photography--Archival resources
Magazines (periodicals)
Negatives (photographic)
Photographs
Slides (photographs)