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[Stephen R. Davis photograph collection]Creator/Contributor:
Davis, Stephen R., creator, photographer.Abstract:
Selections from 3 series, designated by the photographer as Pismo Beach portraits, Central Coast beach landscapes and Central
Coast agricultural landscapes. Portraits depict tourists and local visitors to a weekly Pismo Beach art and craft fair, where
the photographer regularly operated a portrait photography souvenir stand from 1982 to 1985. A smaller number of photographs,
covering a wider range of the Central Coast and adjacent inland areas, depict beach scenes and other coastal views; livestock;
vineyards; and other scenes of farming and agriculture.
more photographs of beach landscapes and agricultural landscapes, grouped by the photographer into the following categories:
beach landscapes, vehicles on the beach, El Niño 1982-1983, general views/construction, vineyards, orchards, row crops, sheep,
cattle, Fiscalini Ranch Roundup (Cambria) Jan. 1984, miscellaneous images.
Truckee Meadows open lands project, 1985-1990 (ffALB box 2): documentation of various aspects of open lands in the Truckee
Meadows region, including agriculture, parks, golf courses, vacant spaces and remnants of farming use from earlier generations.
Nevada landscapes (ffALB box 3): Black Rock Country; U.S. Highway 50; military; mining; desert images. National Cowboy Poetry
Gathering, Elko, Nev., 2010 (ffALB box 3). Washoe Medical Center artist residency, 2001 (B box 2): photographs and memoirs
documenting the stories of oncology patients at Washoe Medical Center, Reno. Gay Reno, 1980s (B box 2): Closet Ball, Halloween
party, Marilyn Monroe impersonator. Childhood Memory and Sense of Place, 1990-1993 (AX folders): images of northern Nevada
locations superimposed with text excerpted from interviews with those who had childhood memories of the locations.
Date:
1982 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-nvTourists -- California -- Pismo Beach -- Portraits
Open spaces -- Nevada -- Photographs
Cancer -- Patients -- Nevada -- Photographs
Gay people -- Nevada -- Reno -- Photographs
Espaces verts -- Nevada -- Photographies
Cancéreux -- Nevada -- Photographies
Personnes homosexuelles -- Nevada -- Reno -- Photographies
Cancer -- Patients
Gays
Open spaces
Tourists
Pacific Coast (Calif.) -- Photographs
Nevada -- Photographs
Truckee Meadows (Nev.) -- Photographs
Pacifique, Côte du (Calif.) -- Photographies
Nevada -- Photographies
California -- Pacific Coast
California -- Pismo Beach
Nevada
Nevada -- Reno
Nevada -- Truckee Meadows
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering -- Photographs
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Digital prints derived from 35mm film negatives.
Some photographs annotated on back with photographer's code number.
Some groups of photographs accompanied by related artist's statement, captions and/or other descriptive material provided
by the photographer. Subjects of some portraits are identified.
Gift ; Of Stephen R. Davis ; 2016.
Additions: Gift Of Stephen R. Davis ; 2017 and 2018.
Item list for 2017 additions available in library.
Davis lived in Oceano, Calif. from 1982 to 1985, operating a portrait photography stand at a weekly arts and crafts fair in
nearby downtown Pismo Beach. He later moved to Nevada, where he has continued to practice documentary photography. His archive
is owned by the University of Nevada, Reno.
Stephen R. Davis photograph collection, BANC PIC 2016.050, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPortrait
Autobiography
portraits.
group portraits.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Photographs
Portraits
Landscapes (Representations)-California.
Landscapes (Representations)-Nevada.
Digital prints.
Portraits.
Autobiographies.
Portraits.
Autobiographies.
Portraits de groupe.
Physical Description:
photoprint
438 photographs in 5 boxes and 11 folders : b&w digital prints ; sheets 49 x 33 cm or smaller
Language:
English