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Title:

[Posters relating to American fine art photography exhibitions]

Creator/Contributor:

Mirano, Virgil., former owner.

Abstract:

Posters promoting exhibitions of fine art photography, chiefly from the 1970s, at various galleries and museums in New York, California and elswehere in the United States. Also includes a few posters promoting the publication of photographic print portfolios. Among the photographers represented are Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ellen Brooks, Eileen Cowin, Robert Cumming, Darryl Curran, Reed Estabrook, Walker Evans, Robert Fichter, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Harold Jones, Marvin Lyons (Rampant Lyon Unltd.), Duane Michals, Barbara Kasten Rice, Leland Rice Aaron Siskind, Josef Sudek, Charles Traub, Karen Truax, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Todd Walker, Minor White and Gary Winogrand.
Exhibition venues represented include Leo Castelli (New York City), Robert Fredus Gallery (NYC), Slavin's (NYC), The Witkin Gallery (NYC), Light Gallery (NYC), John Gibson (NYC), International Museum of Photographs at George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University), San Francisco Camerawork, Foto-graphix (SF), Prints on Broxton (Los Angeles), University Art Museum (Santa Barbara), California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland), Montgomery Gallery (Pomona College), Rex W. Wignall Museum Gallery (Alta Loma), Blue Sky (Portland, OR), Vision Gallery (Boston), Franconia College (New Hampshire) and International Center of Photography.

Date:

1967 (issued)

Subject:

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Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
Posters, American

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Some posters include address labels, inscriptions and/or ownership marks pertaining to Los Angeles-based cinematographer and photographer Virgil Mirano.
Posters relating to American fine art photography exhibitions, BANC PIC 2021.007, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Posters.

Physical Description:

print
32 prints in 2 folders : chiefly color lithographs ; sheets 59 x 77 cm or smaller

Language:

English

Origin:

California