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Gerdes (Ingeborg) Photographs and Papers
MS.387
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Box 161, Folder 11
Box 161, Folder 12
Box 161, Folder 13
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Box 161, Folder 23
Artist Talk Photo Alliance 2019
Physical Description: Gerdes's handwritten lecture
notes (12 pages), typed introduction by Thom Sempre (2 pages), additional drafted
notes and remarks.
Notes for lecture delivered at SFAI for the SF Photo Alliance on 5/24/2019. Lecture
was a summary/survey of her artistic career, with details on various projects. One
of the few instances of Gerdes discussing her own work. Includes references to
images shown (these are likely in digital archives). Thom Sempre was the Photo
Alliance's director at the time, as of 2022 he is the photography curator at the
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene.
Exhibitions and Publicity
Box 161, Folder 24-32
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Box 161, Folder 38
Box 164, Folder 1
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Box 164, Folder 8-10
Press clippings 1970s-1980s
Press clippings of early artistic and commercial work from SF Bay Area newspapers.
Pacific Sun Article on Galleries (with John Berggruen); Rags magazine feature "SF
Dandies," featuring Warren Hinckle, Cecil Williams, Franklin Mieuli, Pete Marino,
Melvin Belli; Rags magazine fashion feature (Tom Osher); The Organ magazine
(explicit content) with feature on The Cockettes, others. Also includes issue of
Rolling Stone magazine (May 19th, 1977) with photography feature including two
photographs of Gerdes by Dennis Hearne (pp.54-55).
Box 165
Box 164, Folder 11-15
Teaching
Gerdes's teaching appointments included: Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco Art
Institute, 1978, 1987-1988, 1991 Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University Art
Department, 1988-1989 Lecturer, Cabrillo Community College 1997-1998 Lecturer,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1981-2006.
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Box 164, Folder 19-20
UCSC class photographs 1989-2006
Physical Description: 13x Polaroid Spectra prints, 2x
8,5x11" color prints, 1x 7x10" BW print and 8x Polaroid (Spectra) prints; 14x
color/BW prints, laser print-outs, various sizes. Some prints show Gerdes with
students in her home at 115 Averitt St., Santa Cruz.
Photographs of Gerdes's UCSC photography classes, most have course info/dates. Two
larger prints are from her retirement party from UCSC in 2006. Miscellaneous
photographs from UCSC Classes. Includes photographs of class gathering at Gerdes's
Santa Cruz home, printouts of student portraits to identify class members.
Box 164, Folder 21
Box 164, Folder 22
Personal
Box 164, Folder 23
Box 164, Folder 24
Out West snapshots circa 1980s, 1982, 1989
Physical Description: 9x Polaroid Spectra
Prints
Polaroid photographs from Western camping trips. Includes color shot of "Near
Mexican Hat, Utah, 1989" (Kodak), and "Rhyolite, Nevada, 1982," apparently used as
studies. Also includes photographs of negatives drying in motel bathroom, showing
how she developed/fixed Polaroid negatives in the field.
Box 164, Folder 25
Chibbi 1980-2001
Physical Description: 8x rolls 35mm, 120 film BW with
matching contact sheets, 4x 4x5" BW negatives with matching contact sheet; 15x
Polaroid Spectra prints, 3x 3.5x5" color prints, 1x 4x6" print BW, 5x Polaroid Type
555 BW prints; travel documents, cremation certificate; 3x 8x10" BW prints, 1x 6x9"
BW print, 2x 8.5x11" color prints; 5x unsorted rolls 35mm, 120 film, Polaroid Type
555 film; 2x Polaroid Spectra prints in cardboard mounts (with paw
prints).
Collected photographs of Gerdes's pet cat Chibbi (1980-2001). Chibbi was found as a
street cat by Gerdes and Jyo near their home in the SF Mission District. He was her
favorite cat and extensively photographed. He accompanied Gerdes and Jyo on (short)
overnight trips around the Bay Area, and moved with Gerdes to Santa Cruz after Jyo's
death. In the 90s Chibbi traveled with Gerdes to Germany when she couldn't find a
cat sitter, from family accounts he enjoyed it and was popular with the German
relatives. He passed away on 9/11/2001 after a long illness.
Box 164, Folder 26
Digital Files 2004-2020 bulk 2012-2019
Physical Description: 226
GB 6194 digital files
Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading room.
Some files may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical limitations
may hinder the Library's ability to provide access to some digital files. Access to
digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view access
copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access to digital
files.
This series contains born-digital photographs, scanned film images, and digital files
on Gerdes's professional work, primarily beginning in 2007 when Gerdes began creating
photographs with a digital camera. Formats include TIFF, JPEG, PDF, and Apple Pages
files.
This series is arranged in 4 sub-series:
- Sub-series 1: Digital Capture Photographs
- Sub-series 2: Professional Files
- Sub-series 3: Scanned Film
- Sub-series 4: Snapshots of Ingeborg and Friends
The digital materials in this collection were processed by Alix Norton in 2022-2023.
Digital files were transferred from one external hard drive in June 2022 via logical
copy. Digital photograph files in RAW format, Adobe Lightroom files, and materials
marked as restricted by the Gerdes Trust on the hard drive were not transferred. Scanned
film photographs were not transferred if they were identified by the Trust as being well
represented in the Exhibition Prints series. Tools used in the analysis of files
included DROID and TreeSize Pro to identify duplicate files and calculate file sizes,
and Print Window to create a file directory PDF. Original order of the digital material,
including file names and folder arrangement, has been retained without intervention by
archives staff, with the following exceptions: the four sub-series folders (Digital
Capture Photographs, Professional Files, Scanned Film, Snapshots of Ingeborg and
Friends) were renamed for clarification, and some file names were edited to remove
non-ASCII characters.
For a complete file directory listing of Series 8: Digital Files, see the following
guide:
Digital Capture Photographs
Physical Description: 131.8
GB 5231 digital files
This sub-series contains photographs originally captured via digital camera in their
final processed version. Work series represented in this sub-series are Berlin
2012-2017, Compost, East Bay, Germany Baltic, Golden Gate Fields, Mission, Out West in
Color, and SF Chinatown. Gerdes utilized Adobe Lightroom to correct and edit RAW
photograph files, then exported them in TIFF or JPEG format. Most files in this
sub-series are in TIFF format, with some JPEG files included. Photographs in RAW
format are not included.
Professional Files
Physical Description: 2
GB 311 digital files
This sub-series contains digital, non-photographic files created by Gerdes in her
professional work, including biographies and curricula vitae, artist's statements, and
presentation slides for a May 2019 lecture at the San Francisco Art Institute for the
San Francisco PhotoAlliance, which was her last major public presentation and provided
an overview of her life's work and career.
Scanned Film
Physical Description: 90.5
GB 623 digital files
This sub-series contains photographs scanned from film negatives from work series
(Mission, Out West, Out West in Color, SF in the 1970s and 1980s, DuMont) where few
gelatin silver prints exist, and where a large amount of new material was scanned that
was not previously printed. Gerdes presumably used negative scanning as an opportunity
to re-evaluate her earlier work and select images which she had not previously
printed, such as the series SF in the 1970s, from which only a small number of
darkroom prints exist. The sub-series only includes final (i.e. corrected, proofed,
edited) images ready to print; raw, unedited scans are not included. Some files have
named titles, and others have a number prefix which corresponds to Gerdes's film
coding system of year/film roll. Most files in this sub-series are in TIFF format,
with some JPEG files included.
Snapshots of Ingeborg and Friends
Physical Description: 1.7
GB 29 digital files
This sub-series contains "snapshot" photographs of Gerdes, her friends, and
colleagues. Included are some scans from film negatives and prints, but most images in
this sub-series were captured with a digital camera. Some of the images scanned from
prints include portraits of Gerdes working in the desert in the 1980s captured by her
late husband Jyo Koshida.
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