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MSS.PHOTO.0672
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Roger Hagan photographs
Creator:
Hagan, Roger
source:
Luis-Hagan, Sara de
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.PHOTO.0672
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(7 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1948-2020
Abstract: Photograph prints by Roger Hagan focusing on his travels in Mexico and Europe during the 1950s, as well as selected images
from his photography career spanning the 1940s to 2010s.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36 hours in advance.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was given by Roger Hagan's family to Stanford University, Special Collections in 2020.
Collection is arranged into three series: 1. Mexico, 1953-1959; 2. Europe, 1955; 3 Favorite Photographs, 1948-2020
Roger Hagan (1934-2020) was a photographer, writer, and editor. He grew up in Arcadia, California, and graduated from Stanford
University with a degree in history in 1955. During this time, he also traveled in Mexico and Europe, later publishing books
of photographs from his travels titled
Mexico 1953 and
Cold Stone: Photographs in Europe in 1955. From 1961 to 1965, Hagan was an editor for
The Correspondent, published by the Committee of Correspondence at Harvard where he was a graduate student of historian Arthur Schlesinger
Jr., a teaching assistant for sociologist David Riesman, and a research assistant for psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. During the
1970s through 1990s, Hagan was active in Seattle's journalism scene, working for King Broadcasting Company and Enterprise
Productions. He also opened The Word Processor Store in the 1980s, Seattle's first computer store for writers. In the early
2000s, he returned to photography, publishing and exhibiting pieces in galleries.
[identification of item], Roger Hagan photographs (MSS PHOTO 0672). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
For materials relating to Hagan's time as a graduate student at Harvard working under Erich Fromm and David Riesman, see the
Roger Hagan papers (M2252) housed at Stanford University: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87m0fh0/
The collection consists of black and white photographic prints taken by Roger Hagan, largely from his travels during the 1950s.
Series 1 includes photos from his travels to Mexico in 1953 and 1959. Series 2 includes photos from travels through Europe
in 1955. Images in both series include a mix of portraits, landscape, and urban photography. Series 3 consists of black and
white photographs selected by Hagan as some of his favorites from a lifetime of taking photographs. Descriptions are included
for most of the images in this series.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photography -- Mexico
Black-and-white photography
Travel photography
Street photography
Luis-Hagan, Sara de