Finding Aid of the James Arkatov photographs 0191

Rebecca Hirsch and Sarah Guidas

The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

USC Libraries Special Collections

2010

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: James Arkatov photographs and interviews

creator: Arkatov, James

Identifier/Call Number: 0191

Physical Description: 3.37 Linear Feet 5 boxes

Date (inclusive): 1946-1999

Date (bulk): bulk

Abstract: James Arkatov was a cellist who photographed famous concert soloists performing. This collection consists of black and white prints of the photographs he took between 1946 and 1999 of musicians and artists, as well as interviews of artists.

Biographical Note

James Arkatov was born in 1920 and raised in San Francisco, where his father, Alexander Arkatov, owned a photography salon. James was a cellist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and NBC's orchestra and was a founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. While in Pittsburgh, James began to photograph famous soloists as they came through town and he continued to do so once he relocated to Los Angeles.

Scope and Content

This collection contains approximately 200 black and white images of classical conductors and soloists performing, and 11 black and white and 1 color image of artists by James Arkatov. Most of the photographs of musicians appeared in the USC Libraries exhibition "Grace Notes" in 1995 and were published in Arkatov's book Masters of Music (Capra Press, 1990). Also included are audio cassettes of interviews conducted by Arkatov for his book project "Artists: the creative personality" in 1998.

Arrangement

Photographs are arranged chronologically.

Conditions Governing Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

The collection contains published materials; researchers are reminded of the copyright restrictions imposed by publishers on reusing their articles and parts of books. It is the responsibility of researchers to acquire permission from publishers when reusing such materials. The copyright to unpublished materials belongs to the heirs of the writers. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder# or item name], James Arkatov photographs and interviews, Collection no. 0191, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of James Arkatov.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Artists -- Interviews -- Archival resources

Artists -- Photographs

Exhibitions -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs

Music -- Performance -- Photographs

Musicians -- Photographs

Musicians -- Portraits

Photography -- Exhibitions

Photographers -- United States -- Archival resources

Portraits

Photographs

Arkatov, James -- Archives

Box 1, Folder 1

Fritz Kreisler 1946-1990

Box 1, Folder 2

Artur Schnabel 1946

Box 1, Folder 3

Zino Francescatti 1946

Box 1, Folder 4

Gregor Piatigorsky 1947

Box 1, Folder 5

Fritz Reiner 1947

Box 1, Folder 6

Claudio Arrau 1947, 1987

Box 1, Folder 7

Robert Casadesus 1946

Box 1, Folder 8

Bruno Walter 1949

Box 1, Folder 9

Jascha Heifetz 1957

Box 1, Folder 10

Arturo Toscanini 1949

Box 1, Folder 11

Josef Szigeti 1950

Box 1, Folder 12

Igor Stravinsky 1952

Box 1, Folder 13

Stravinsky & Castelnuevo-Tedesco 1955

Box 1, Folder 14

Sir Thomas Beecham 1955

Box 1, Folder 15

Otto Klemperer 1955

Box 1, Folder 16

Mstislav Rostropovich 1956

Box 1, Folder 17

Serge Koussevitsky 1957

Box 1, Folder 18

Vladamir Horowitz 1958

Box 1, Folder 19

Pierre Monteux 1958

Box 1, Folder 20

Leon Fleisher 1958, 1990

Box 1, Folder 21

John Browning 1955, 1986

Box 1, Folder 22

Isaac Stern 1958

Box 1, Folder 23

Arthur Rubinstein 1958

Box 1, Folder 24

Van Cliburn 1959

Box 1, Folder 25

Kirill Kondrashin 1959

Box 1, Folder 26

Ernst Toch 1964

Box 1, Folder 27

David Oistrakh 1965

Box 1, Folder 28

Gregor Piatigorsky 1976

Box 1, Folder 29

Vladamir Ashkenazy 1985

Box 1, Folder 30

Horacio Gutierrez 1985

Box 1, Folder 31

Andrei Gavrilov 1985

Box 1, Folder 32

Carlos Montoya 1985

Box 1, Folder 33

Pinchas Zukerman 1985

Box 1, Folder 34

Zukerman & Perlman 1985

Box 1, Folder 35

Itzhak Perlman 1985

Box 1, Folder 36

Henryk Szeryng 1986

Box 1, Folder 37

Walter Klien 1986

Box 1, Folder 38

Gary Karr 1986

Box 1, Folder 39

Aldo Ciccolini 1986

Box 1, Folder 40

Andres Segovia 1986

Box 1, Folder 41

Andre Watts 1986

Box 1, Folder 42

Isaac Stern 1986

Box 1, Folder 43

Yefim Bronfman 1986

Box 1, Folder 44

Janos Starker 1986

Box 1, Folder 45

Valery Afanasieff 1986

Box 1, Folder 46

Maurice Andre 1986

Box 1, Folder 47

Josef Suk 1986

Box 1, Folder 48

Albert Goldberg 1987

Box 1, Folder 49

Yehudi Menuhin 1986

Box 1, Folder 50

Lorin Maazel 1987

Box 1, Folder 51

Minoru Nojima 1987

Box 1, Folder 52

Yo-Yo Ma 1988

Box 1, Folder 53

Jean-Pierre Rampal 1990

Box 1, Folder 54

Nikolai Petrov 1987

Box 1, Folder 55

Andrea Lucchesini 1987

Box 1, Folder 56

Nicolas Slonimsky 1987

Box 1, Folder 57

Annie Fischer 1988

Box 1, Folder 58

Ravi Shankar 1988

Box 1, Folder 59

Michael Tilson Thomas 1988

Box 2, Folder 1

Cho-Liang "Jimmy" Lin 1988

Box 2, Folder 2

Eduardo Mata 1988

Box 2, Folder 3

Jascha Heifetz 1988

Box 2, Folder 4

Jacob Druckman 1988

Box 2, Folder 5

Jan De Gaetani 1988

Box 2, Folder 6

Jorge Mester 1988

Box 2, Folder 7

James Galway 1988

Box 2, Folder 8

Cecile Licad 1988

Box 2, Folder 9

Alexander Slobodyanik 1988

Box 2, Folder 10

Nicholas McGegan 1988

Box 2, Folder 11

Moura Lympany 1988

Box 2, Folder 12

Andras Schiff 1989

Box 2, Folder 13

Lynn Harrell 1989

Box 2, Folder 14

Lukas Foss 1989

Box 2, Folder 15

Alicia de Larrocha 1989

Box 2, Folder 16

Kazuhito Yamashita 1989

Box 2, Folder 17

Heinrich Schiff 1989

Box 2, Folder 18

Aprile Milo 1989

Box 2, Folder 19

Pierre Boulez 1989

Box 2, Folder 20

Neeme Jarvi 1989

Box 2, Folder 21

Midori 1989

Box 2, Folder 22

Radu Lupu 1990

Box 2, Folder 23

Emmanuel Ax 1990

Box 2, Folder 24

Erich Leinsdorf 1990

Box 2, Folder 25

Self Portraits 1990

Box 3

Chuck Arnaldi 1991

Box 3

Richard Diebenkorn 1992

Box 3

Chris Burden 1992-1999

Box 3

Sam Francis 1993

Box 3

Lari Pittman 1994

Box 3

Betye Saar 1995

Box 3

Roy Outterbridge 1996

Box 3

Alexis Smith circa 1998

Box 3

Robert Graham circa 1998

Box 3

Peter Voulkos circa 1998

Box 3

Ed Ruscha 1998 January

Box 3

Robert Irwin 1998 January

Box 4, Box 5

Recorded conversations with artists circa 1992-1999

Scope and Contents

12 audio cassettes with artists interviews. Tapes 1-10 are accompanied by a list of interview subjects; tapes 11 and 12 contain that information in the cassette case.