Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Photographic prints and negatives of models, thematic sets, and comic series from Target Studios, circa 1975-1979. Photographer and filmmaker Lou Thomas founded Target Studios in the early 1970s with an eye toward ultra masculine types and themes.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Feet 1 box
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder #, or item name] Target Studios Photographs, Coll2014-030, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Photographic prints and negatives of models and thematic sets from Target Studios. Includes images from comic series, including from Tom of Finland, and clippings of Target Studios advertisements in Drummer magazine.
- Biographical / historical:
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Photographer and filmmaker Lou Thomas founded Target Studios in the early 1970s after leaving Colt Studios which he operated with Jim French (Rip Colt). Thomas shared several models with Colt Studios and his esthetic tended toward the mustachioed leather daddy model that pervaded gay male culture throughout the 1970s.
- Acquisition information:
- Collection donated by Barry Safran, Steven F. Dansky, and the Estate of Leonard Dworkin, July 21, 2014.
- Processing information:
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Inventory and arrangement provided by Steven F. Dansky.
- Arrangement:
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Arrangement based on order created by Steven F. Dansky.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder #, or item name] Target Studios Photographs, Coll2014-030, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
- Location of this collection:
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909 West Adams BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90007, US
- Contact:
- (213) 821-2771