Meredith (Ann P.) Photographs Collection, 1984-2001

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Summary

Title:
Ann P. Meredith Photographs Collection,
Dates:
1984-2001
Creators:
Meredith, Ann P.
Abstract:
Ann P. Meredith is a fine art photographer, writer, director, producer, filmmaker, performance/installation artist and playwright. For many years she lived in Northern California, specifically in Sacramento, Berkeley, Tiburon and Sausalito. This collection contains portraits of gays and lesbians drawn from a larger series of Meredith's work titled WITNESS. The images include lesbians at work, dykes and their dogs, in the military, with HIV/AIDS, with breast cancer, and gays and lesbians in sports among numerous other subjects.
Language:
Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ann P. Meredith Photographs Collection (GLC 39), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains portraits of gays and lesbians drawn from larger series of Meredith's work. The images include lesbians at work, with pets, in the military, with HIV and with breast cancer, and gays and lesbians in sports.

Biographical / historical:

Ann P. Meredith is a fine art photographer, writer, director, producer, filmmaker, performance/installation artist and playwright. Born on June 7, 1948, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ann lived in Mobile, Alabama; Vienna, Austria; Chateaurou, France; Munich Germany; and Tonopah, Nevada. After graduating high school, she attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, finishing her BA in The History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley.

For many years she lived in Northern California, specifically in Sacramento, Berkeley, Oakland, Tiburon and Sausalito. Ann lived and worked in Africa, Mexico, China, Europe and throughout the US moving to Malibu and Marina Del Rey to work in Hollywood and New York City.

Much of her photography documents the lives of women, and gay and lesbian life nationally and globally.

Acquisition information:
Photographs donated by the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, 2001.
Arrangement:

The photographs are in the order preferred by the photographer.

Physical location:
The collection is stored onsite.
Physical description:
25 black white photographic prints (16 x 20 in.), matted to 20 x 24 in., titled (in 2 oversized boxes).
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Tim Wilson
Date Prepared:
2002
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-06-08 20:19:33 +0000 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is available for viewing during the San Francisco History Center's Historical Photograph Collection hours: Tues.: 1-5; Thurs.: 1-5; Sat.: 10-12, 1-5.

Terms of access:

All copyrights are retained by Ann P. Meredith. Permission to make reproductions of any kind (of her works), and permission to purchase, publish, or exhibit her works must be obtained in writing from Ann P. Meredith, who retains all rights during her lifetime.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ann P. Meredith Photographs Collection (GLC 39), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Location of this collection:
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102, US
Contact:
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
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