This collection consists of photographs by other photographers given to or acquired by Erik M. Lauritzen.

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.

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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.

Collection open for research.