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Finding aid to the Ann P. Meredith Photographs Collection, 1984-2001
GLC 39
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Title: Ann P. Meredith Photographs Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1984-2001
Identifier/Call Number: GLC 39
Creator:
Meredith, Ann P.
Physical Description: 25 black & white photographic prints (16 x 20 in.), matted to 20 x 24 in., titled (in 2 oversized boxes).
Contributing Institution:
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
(415) 557-4400
info@sfpl.org
Abstract: Ann P. Meredith is a fine art photographer, writer, director, producer, filmmaker, performance/installation artist and playwright.
For many years she lived in Northern California, specifically in Sacramento, Berkeley, Tiburon and Sausalito. This collection
contains portraits of gays and lesbians drawn from a larger series of Meredith's work titled WITNESS. The images include lesbians
at work, dykes and their dogs, in the military, with HIV/AIDS, with breast cancer, and gays and lesbians in sports among numerous
other subjects.
Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
The collection is available for viewing during the San Francisco History Center's Historical Photograph Collection hours:
Tues.: 1-5; Thurs.: 1-5; Sat.: 10-12, 1-5.
All copyrights are retained by Ann P. Meredith. Permission to make reproductions of any kind (of her works), and permission
to purchase, publish, or exhibit her works must be obtained in writing from Ann P. Meredith, who retains all rights during
her lifetime.
The Papers of Ann P. Meredith are at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/9694
[Identification of item], Ann P. Meredith Photographs Collection (GLC 39), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Photographs donated by the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, 2001.
Ann P. Meredith is a fine art photographer, writer, director, producer, filmmaker, performance/installation artist and playwright.
Born on June 7, 1948, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ann lived in Mobile, Alabama; Vienna, Austria; Chateaurou, France; Munich
Germany; and Tonopah, Nevada. After graduating high school, she attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, finishing
her BA in The History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley.
For many years she lived in Northern California, specifically in Sacramento, Berkeley, Oakland, Tiburon and Sausalito. Ann
lived and worked in Africa, Mexico, China, Europe and throughout the US moving to Malibu and Marina Del Rey to work in Hollywood
and New York City.
Much of her photography documents the lives of women, and gay and lesbian life nationally and globally.
Limited editions # 7 of 40, signed and dated, from the series
I, A WITNESS: A Document of LGBT Culture
.
This collection contains portraits of gays and lesbians drawn from larger series of Meredith's work. The images include lesbians
at work, with pets, in the military, with HIV and with breast cancer, and gays and lesbians in sports.
The photographs are in the order preferred by the photographer.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lesbians -- United States -- Portraits.
Gay men -- United States -- Portraits.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Portraits.
Gays in the military -- United States -- Photograph collections.
Gays and sports -- United States -- Photograph collections.
Women AIDS patients -- United States -- Portraits.
Lesbians and AIDS -- United States -- Photograph collections.
Lesbian workers -- Portraits.
Lesbians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Photograph collections.
Meredith, Ann P.