Erik M. Lauritzen photograph collection, 1932-2005

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Summary

Creators:
Lauritzen, Erik M.
Abstract:
This collection consists of photographs by other photographers given to or acquired by Erik M. Lauritzen.
Extent:
8 flats
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

Erik M. Lauritzen Photograph Collection. MS 123. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains 90 photographs by 37 known and several anonymous photographers. They range in age from a 1932 print by Edward Weston to several images taken in 2003. Virtually all are original prints except for a couple of reproduction prints.

Biographical / historical:

Erik M. Lauritzen was born in Illinois in 1953. After moving to California, he studied art, graduating from San Francisco Art Institute with a B.F.A. in 1977, and from California State University, Northridge, with an M.F.A. in 1980. He exhibited his own work consistently from the mid-1970s in galleries throughout California and in Nevada, as well as in many cities across the continent. Besides his archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz (MS 23), there are also works in many collections throughout the United States, including at the Kresge Art Museum in Lansing, Michigan, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York.

Mr. Lauritzen was a curator for the Red Mountain Gallery at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, where he founded the photography and digital program, as well as two galleries that he curated for a decade. He also curated exhibits for the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Friends of Photography, and the Nevada Historical Society. He wrote articles, served as a Master Course Instructor for the Maine Photographic Workshops, and as a juror for numerous photographic exhibitions nationally. Nearly all of the photographs in this collection are from people he knew personally as friends and acquaintances in the field of photography.

Erik M. Lauritzen died August 9, 2007, in Reno, Nevada.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Erik M. Lauritzen.
Physical location:
Stored at Special Collections: Advance notice is required for access.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Photography, Artistic
Names:
Lauritzen, Erik M., 1953-

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the University of California. Rights are retained by the creators of the photographs and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections & Archives.

Preferred citation:

Erik M. Lauritzen Photograph Collection. MS 123. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Location of this collection:
Special Collections and Archives, University Library
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, US
Contact:
(831) 459-2547
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
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