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[George Evans collection of photographs for Streetfare Journal broadsides].
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Title:
[George Evans collection of photographs for Streetfare Journal broadsides]Streetfare journal
Creator/Contributor:
Evans, George, 1948-, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Vignes, Michelle, 1926-2012, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Siskind, Aaron, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Rosoff, Sue, photographer.Abstract:
Includes photographs collected by George Evans, at least some of which were considered for publication on his Streetfare Journal
broadsides. Photographers include Michelle Vignes (dancers at an Oakland blues club), Sue Rosoff (rodeo images The Stretch,
Out of the chutes and Bulldogger) and Aaron Siskind (rocks at Martha's Vineyard). Also includes layouts for various Streetfare
journal broadsides illustrated by Vignes' photographs, and a file of correspondence from Vignes to Evans (shelved in PIC folder),
which also contains an issue of San Francisco Examiner magazine Image featuring a story on East Bay blues culture illustrated
by Vignes' images.
Date:
1985 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBlues (Music) -- California -- Oakland
Rodeos -- Photographs
Rodéos -- Photographies
Blues (Music)
Rodeos
California -- Oakland
Streetfare journal -- Archives
Evans, George -- 1948- -- Archives
Evans, George -- 1948-
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes subject file on Michelle Vignes (PIC folder).
Purchase From Burton I. Weiss; 2015.
Related collection: George Evans papers (BANC MSS 2010/255).
Related collection: Streetfare Journal records (BANC MSS 2010/256).
George Evans was a poet and the founder of Streetfare Journal.
Photographs from the Streetfare Journal records, BANC PIC 2016.065, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Physical Description:
photoprint
6 photographs in 6 folders : gelatin silver prints on board mounts ; sheets 41 x 51 cm or smaller, mounts 51 x 59 cm or smaller.
Language:
English