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Albert J. Johnson photograph collection.
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Albert J. Johnson photograph collectionCreator/Contributor:
Johnson, Albert J., creatorAbstract:
Includes portraits and snapshots of Albert J. Johnson, his colleagues and friends, and many of the filmmakers whom he interviewed
at festivals or was otherwise acquainted with. A large portion of the collection documents Johnson's travels abroad. Also
depicted are Johnson's childhood and student years; scenes from the San Francisco International Film Festival and other film
festivals; Johnson on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley; and miscellaneous and unidentified persons and
places. Also includes production stills and other publicity photographs pertaining to films and filmmakers, including extensive
research files on Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita . Also
includes many photographs of Johnson's friend, actor Patrick Reynolds. Among the noteworthy film figures depicted with Albert
are Federico Fellini, Bette Davis, Frank Capra, Audrey Hepburn, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nagisa Oshima, Clint Eastwood, Rex
Harrison, Vincent Minnelli, Gordon Parks, Henry Fonda, Rosalind Russell, William Greaves. Also includes a small amount of
ephemera.
Date:
ca. 1925-ca. 1995 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMotion picture producers and directors -- Photographs
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Photographs
Film festivals -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Film festivals -- Photographs
African American college teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Photographs
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Photographies
Festivals de cinéma -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Festivals de cinéma -- Photographies
Professeurs noirs américains (Enseignement supérieur) -- Californie -- Berkeley -- Photographies
African American college teachers
Film festivals
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture producers and directors
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
California -- Berkeley
California -- San Francisco
Dolce vita (Motion picture) -- Pictorial works
Dolce vita (Motion picture)
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty -- Portraits
University of California, Berkeley.
San Francisco International Film Festival -- Pictorial works
Johnson, Albert J -- Portraits
Crawford, Joan -- 1908-1977 -- Portraits
Garbo, Greta -- 1905-1990 -- Portraits
Garland, Judy -- Portraits
Dietrich, Marlene -- Portraits
Crawford, Joan -- 1908-1977
Dietrich, Marlene
Garbo, Greta -- 1905-1990
Garland, Judy
Note:
Collected by Albert J. Johnson.
Title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transferred from the Albert J. Johnson papers (BANC MSS 2002/64 c).
Albert J. Johnson was born in Harlem, New York. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and also studied at Oxford
University and the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, England. He was a film critic and historian, and, in 1965, became the
program director for the San Francisco International Film Festival. He was also a faculty member in the African American Studies
Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Slides, color.
Physical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
6 boxes and 2 oversize folders (ca. 2,725 photographic prints, ca. 1,590 negatives and ca. 60 slides) : b&w and color ; 39
x 30 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.