Personal

Object Details

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d993bd05-bef0-463f-ab91-f113f7074258

Collection Creator

Liberman, Alexander, 1912-1999

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Alexander Liberman papers

Alexander Liberman papers / Series 11: Photographic Materials

Sponsor

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund.

Date

circa 1912-1999

Archival Repository

Archives of American Art

Identifier

AAA.libealex, Subseries 11.5

Type

Archival materials

Collection Citation

Alexander Liberman Papers, circa 1912-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Scope and Contents note

Personal photographic materials consist of photograph prints, photocopies of prints, slides, contact sheets, negatives, and transparencies depicting Alexander Liberman and various other people and settings. Subjects depicted with Liberman include Alfred Barr, Salvador Dali, Marlene Dietrich, Willem de Kooning, Andre Emmerich, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Betty Parsons, Pablo Piccaso, Edward Steichen, Lucien Vogel, and Diana Vreeland, among many others. A majority of the images are candid shots or portraits of Liberman taken by a number of noted photographers,many signed and inscribed, including those by Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Annie Leibowitz, Hans Namuth, Ugo Mulas, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, among others. There are also images depicting Liberman's New York City apartment, European vacations, and studios at Hillside and in Warren, Connecticut.

Collection Restrictions

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. research center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Record ID

ebl-1503512364282-1503512364386-6