Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Morgan (Barbara) photographs
LSC.1873  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Conditions on Access
  • Conditions on Use and Reproduction
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement
  • Related Material

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Barbara Morgan photographs
    Creator: Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1873
    Physical Description: 1 oversize_boxes
    Date (inclusive): 1928-1972
    Abstract: The collection contains nineteen mounted photos by Barbara Morgan, on subjects including dance, Camp Treetops, nature, and one from the Junkyard Series.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions on Use and Reproduction

    Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Barbara Morgan Photographs (Collection 1873). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Sukey Garcetti in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT)  with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2010.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections. 

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9966536073606533 

    Biography

    Barbara Brooks Morgan was born in Buffalo, Kansas on July 8, 1900, but grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She attended UCLA from 1919 to 1923, and later joined the art faculty (1925-30). She married Willard D. Morgan (ca. 1925) and relocated to New York (1930). After the birth of her two sons, Douglas (1932) and Lloyd (1935), she began to concentrate on her photography career. An accomplished designer, author, artist, and photographer, she is best known for her photographs of American modern dancers, among them, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Pearl Primus, Jose Limon, and Charles Weidman. She contributed articles and reviews to various publications and published several books including, Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs (1941), Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp about Camp Treetops (1951), and A Collection of Material about Barbara Morgan (1972), as well as having a photo in Family of Man (1955). She died August 18, 1992 in Scarsdale, NY.

    Scope and Content

    The collection includes 19 mounted photos taken by Barbara Morgan. These photos include photos of dancers, nature, various portraits, one of Camp Treetops (a children's camp, featured in her book Summer's Children) and one from her junkyard series. There is one example of her experimental photomontages. The collection includes "Girl Playing Recorder," which was included in the 1955 book Family of Man.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Portraits
    2. Dance
    3. Auto Junkyard Series
    4. Camp Treetops
    5. Nature

    Related Material

    Collection about Barbara Morgan, 1960-1972. Collection 1112.   Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
    Barbara Morgan Wight Gallery Collection, 1938-1967. Collection 1872.  Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Women artists.
    Women photographers -- Archives.
    Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992