Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Title: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1943-2000, bulk 1965-1985]
Medium: whole collection 20,134 items.
20,134 photographs (includes 8,803 slides and 8,239 photographic prints; 3,092 negatives).
Summary: Photographs cover national and some international news stories featuring prominent people and events from 1960 to the early 1990s, including prominent people from a variety of occupations: academics, actors, architects, artists, authors, business leaders, cartoonists, civic leaders, composers, designers, government officials (including United Nations representatives), journalists, lawyers, musicians, news anchors, poets, playwrights, politicians; presidents and their families; religious leaders, scientists; film, television, opera and theater directors and producers; and prominent persons in the labor rights, civil rights and women's rights movements. Subjects include art, art exhibits, civic, cultural and social activities; entertainment, health, music, political campaigns, presidential elections, popular culture, and television programs. Gotfryd captures his subjects in formal portraits, at events, or in activities associated with their careers. Coverage of news stories is broad with a focus on cultural and social events in the United States, particularly in New York City. Examples of prominent subjects include Vietnam War demonstrations, drug addiction, labor strikes, politics, theater and fashion among many others. Views of New York City street scenes, people, nightlife, buildings and bridges are also heavily represented. In addition to these subjects, many of the color slides also show United Nations meetings, views of Israel and the West Bank, and the Pope travelling to the U.S. and Poland.
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Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Privacy and publicity rights may apply. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd,"(https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf)
Access Advisory: Photographic prints are available to research. Slides are digitized. For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog. Original slides are kept in cold storage for preservation.
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
- Arrangement: Black-and-white photographic prints and contact sheet frames Arrangement: are grouped by format and size into the following series (filed under the call number designation "LOT"): LOT 14188 (Personalities file); LOT 14189 (Subjects file); LOT 14190 (Oversize prints - Occupations and Subjects); LOT 14191 (Contact sheet frames - Personalities); LOT 15023 (Contact sheet frames - Subjects).
- Arrangement: Color slides Arrangement: are in numerical sequence under the filing series designation: LC-GB05.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Contextual information for photographs is limited to Gotfryd's folder titles and other associated text on or with the photographs or slides. This information, when available, has been captured in associated finding aid descriptions and catalog records.
- Some of Gotfryd's folders showing caption information and photocopies of slide pages with text are available in the Prints & Photographs Division Supplementary Archive.
- Film negatives corresponding to contact sheet frames are under the filing series: LC-GB15 and LC-GB15-SUBJ
- Gift of; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004 and 2006; (PR 13 CN 2004:032).
- Born to Jewish parents in Radom, Poland in 1924, Bernard Gotfryd began his photography career shortly after the outbreak of World War II doing studio work as an apprentice photographer. His involvement in activities aiding the Polish resistance resulted in his capture by the Nazis in 1943. He would endure imprisonments in six concentration camps before being liberated in 1945. Several years later, he immigrated to the United States and soon after was drafted into the U.S. Army with an assignment to the Signal Corps. where he served as a combat photographer. He became a photojournalist for Newsweek in 1957 and spent the next thirty years covering stories about prominent people in the arts, letters, and politics as well as national and international events. Gotfryd died in 2016.
- Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032).
- Finding aid is available online https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp019004
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Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Privacy and publicity rights may apply. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf
Reproduction Number: ---
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: whole collection 20,134 items.
20,134 photographs (includes 8,803 slides and 8,239 photographic prints; 3,092 negatives).

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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: whole collection 20,134 items.
20,134 photographs (includes 8,803 slides and 8,239 photographic prints; 3,092 negatives).
Access Advisory: Photographic prints are available to research. Slides are digitized. For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog. Original slides are kept in cold storage for preservation.

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