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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Guide to the Craig Sterling Washington, D.C. Photoprints
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0805
- Creators:
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Sterling, Craig
- Dates:
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1990-1996
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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0.15 Cubic feet1 box16" x 20" x 1"
- Repository:
Black and white photoprints by photographer Craig Sterling, made in the 1990s as part of an ongoing series depicting familiar buildings, monuments, and other sites in Washington, D.C., including the U.S. Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Arboretum.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The photographs in this collection were made in the 1990s by Craig Sterling as part of an ongoing series depicting familiar buildings, monuments, and other sites in Washington, D.C. These prints are silver gelatin. Nine of them, unmated and unmounted, were made on 16" x 20" with wide margins (actual image sizes are shown below). The other three prints are in window mats, 16" x 16".
Arrangement
Arrangement
Collection is arranged into one series.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Craig Sterling is an American art photographer who studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California. He cites the photography of Ansel Adams, Arnold Newman, and Eugene Atget as having had the greatest influence on his work. Sterling, who works exclusively in black-and-white, using a wide range of equipment, makes his own silver gelatin and pigment prints. He often prefers the square format of Hasselblad cameras. He has maintained a studio at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia since 2001.
His photographs, which display a largely pictorialist style, are in the collections of other institutions, such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Oakland Museum. His work has appeared in group exhibitions at the Art League Gallery (Alexandria Virginia), the University of Maine Museum of Art (Bangor, Maine), the Baldwin Photographic Gallery (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn.), the Oakland Museum (Oakland, California), the Philip Weiss Gallery (London), among many others, especially in the Washington and Virginia areas.
His other photographic activities have included teaching at the Art League, Alexandria, Va.; PhotoWorks at Glen Echo Park, Bethesda, Md.; and the Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program. He also served as curator for an exhibition, "The Photographs of Alexander Gardner," at the Washington Center for Photography. He has a Web site at http://www.craigsterling.com/.
Administration
Author
David Haberstich
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by Craig Sterling
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Use
Contact photographer, Craig Sterling, for reproduction permission. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Preferred Citation
Photograph by Craig Sterling, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Arboretums | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1990-2000 | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Memorials -- Washington (D.C.) | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Washington (D.C.) -- 1990-2000 | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Cities and towns | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Monuments -- Washington (D.C.) | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.) | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
P.O. Box 37012
Suite 1100, MRC 601
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Business Number: Phone: 202-633-3270
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