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Prints and Photographs Division
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/
Relating to Look Magazine
and Look Staff
Charlotte Brooks - Images
made for Look Magazine (Unprocessed
in PR 13 CN 1994:017):
Approximately 25,000 photographs (negatives,
photographic prints, contact sheets) and
accompanying card file. Special arrangements
are required to consult this material
(see Access
to Unprocessed Materials
Farm Security Administration/Office
of War Information Collection: Several Look photographers
first worked for the Farm Security Administration
and/or the Office of War Information
during the 1930s and 1940s. Among them:
Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon and Russell
Lee. The FSA/OWI photographs are available
online and offer a point of comparison. More
information
Look,
v. 10-35 (1946-1971) [microfilm]
Published issues of Look,
useful for locating published images
and for comparison to unpublished material.
Look magazine
picture research files (Unprocessed
in PR 13 CN 1995:031) About 215,000
photographs, ca. 1935-1971, acquired
from Columbia University. The photographs
were gathered (not made) by Look,
apparently for research purposes. They
include wire service and other commercial
photographs of world news events. The
magazine gave the file to Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism in 1972.
The material has not been organized.
Special arrangements are required to
consult it (see Access
to Unprocessed Materials).
Arthur Rothstein Collection (Unprocessed
in PR 06 CN 850 and PR 13 CN 1981:273):
Approximately 5,500 items from various
stages of his career, including his Look work.
Special arrangements are required to consult
this material (see Access
to Unprocessed Materials.
Other Photojournalism
Collections
New York World-Telegram & Sun
Newspaper Photograph Collection
About one million photographs that the New
York World-Telegram & Sun newspaper
assembled between the 1890s and 1967 (chiefly
1920 to 1967). The collection includes
a biographical section of portraits and
other images related to specific people
(about three-quarters of the collection)
and a subject/geographical file which
contains images related to topical subjects
and places. More
information
U.S. News and World
Report Magazine Photograph Collection:
Almost 1.2 million original negatives
(primarily black & white) and 45,000
contact sheets donated by the U.S. News & World
Report, Inc. The collection consists
primarily of photographs taken by staff
of the U.S. News & World Report Magazine
between 1952 and 1986. Coverage strengths
include: politics, government, economics,
industry, education, domestic life,
transportation, communication, health
care, and housing. More
information
Main Reading Room
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/
Access to bound issues of Look (Call
number: AP2 .L79) and other Look/Cowles
Communications publications.
Manuscript Division
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/
Papers of Arthur Rothstein.
About 3,100 items. Includes documents
relating to the Look photographic
department and photographic library, lists
of photographs by Rothstein, and speeches
by Look editors and publishers.
[View catalog record]
Recorded Sound Reference Center
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/
Audio tapes of interviews Prints & Photographs
Division staff held with individuals who
offer insights on Look and the context in which it operated have been transferred to the Recorded Sound Reference Center. The interviews are as follows:
Former Look and Cowles Communication
Staff Members:
- Cal Bernstein, Staff Photographer, interviewed
6-12-95
- Fleur Cowles, editor of Flair,
interviewed, 11-13-96
- Paul Fusco, Staff Photographer, interviewed
10-6-98
- Stanley Tretick, Staff Photographer, interviewed
6-2-94
About Look and American Photojournalism
- Miles Barth, then curator of a one-person
Arthur Rothstein exhibition, International
Center for Photography; comments regarding
Arthur Rothstein recorded 5-18-94
- Jill (Davidson) Brett, Director, Office
of Communications, Library of Congress;
comments about being
the subject
of the Look job, "Roomates
(working girls, Wash. D.C.)" [retrieve
catalog record for this job] recorded
7-15-97
- Mike Carlbach, University of Miami
Photojournalism professor; comments
regarding American photojournalism
recorded
6-16-94
- Alan Fern, former Chief, Prints and
Photographs Division; comments regarding
the Library's acquisition of the Look
Magazine Photograph Collection recorded
4-28-94
- Wendy Kozol, Associate Professor,
Oberlin College, specialist on visual
culture; comments regarding American
photojournalism, with special
reference to Life magazine
recorded 1-17-96
- Carl and Shelley Mydans, retired photographer
and reporter for LIFE, respectively;
comments regarding American photojournalism,
with special reference to Life and Look magazines
recorded
5-10-94
- John Peterson, retired Professor of
Journalism, Loyalist College, Belleville,
Ontario. Biography of Arthur Rothstein
in progress; comments
regarding American photojournalism recorded
4-9-97
In Other Institutions
The
Library of Congress does not maintain
these sites. Users should direct concerns
about these links to their respective
site administrators or webmasters.
Relating
to Look Magazine and Look Staff
Columbia University
Columbia University Libraries
New York, NY
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/
- Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie:
oral history, 1976. Discusses career
in publishing, including Look magazine.
(NXCP87-A173)
- Reminiscences of George Horace Gallup:
oral history, 1962. Discusses early
newspaper readership surveys; journalism
teaching 1929-32; principles of effective
advertising; magazine publishing: Literary
Digest, Reader's Digest, Saturday
Evening Post, Look,
etc. (NXCP89-A34)
Museum of the City of New York
Prints and Photographs Collection
New York, NY
http://www.mcny.org/collections/67.html
During the 1940s and 1950s Look sent
material relating to New York City to
the Museum of the City of New York. Also
includes substantial holdings of Stanley
Kubrick photos made for Look.
University of Dubuque - Charles
C. Myers Library
University Special Collections
Dubuque, IA
http://www.dbq.edu/library/collections1.cfm?ID=6
Papers of Archie Lieberman,
photographer for Look, 1952-1972.
University of Iowa Libraries
Special Collections Department
Iowa City, IA
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/
Papers of Merl Armitage, at
one time, president of the American Institute
of Graphic Arts and art director of Quick and Look Magazine.
Collection Dates: 1932-1964. 2.5 linear
ft.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Archives
Madison, WI
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/ "Look Magazine Records,
1948-1966." (From RLG Archival Resources
entry, consulted 6/2004): "Records
and correspondence of one of America's
leading photo journalistic periodicals,
Included are correspondence, financial
records, legal files, minutes, reports,
speech files, story proposals, interbureau
communications, personnel records, in-house
publications and production reports, and
other documents. Routine correspondence
makes up roughly half of the collection."
Photojournalism
Collections
A list of newspaper photograph morgues
started by the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
Division and later maintained by the University
of Texas at Austin is available at: http://crawls.archive.org/katrina/20051109175532/http://www.cah.utexas.edu/newspapers/photomorgues.html .
Life
http://www.life.com/Life/
Commercial site offering highlights
from Life magazine.
National Archives and Records
Administration
Washington, D.C.
http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/photographs-dc.html
Records of the U.S. Information Agency
(Record Group 306). Includes photographs
used in USIA-issued magazines, including America
Illustrated, Topic,
and Dialogue. In some cases,
also includes issues of the magazines
themselves.
Time & Life Pictures
http://www.timelifepictures.com/MS_TIMEPIX/source/home/home.aspx
Commercial site offering highlights
from Time and Life magazines.
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