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Robert B. Miller Photographs, 1973-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Miller, Robert B. (Photographer)
Title
Robert B. Miller Photographs
Dates
1973-2009 (inclusive)
Quantity
11.71 cubic feet, (36 boxes of photographs, contact sheets and negatives)
Collection Number
PH1644
Summary
Photographs taken by Portland-based photographer and professor Robert Miller
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

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Languages
Collection materials are in English.
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Biographical Note

Robert Miller is a Portland-based artist and educator who founded Lewis & Clark College's photography program in 1984, working there for 30 years. Previously, he taught at The Museum School, Portland Community College and University of Portland. In his early life, Miller served as a photographer in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and later worked with Shedrich Williames at the Mr. Pix camera store in Oregon City. Both as a freelance photographer and as Senior Lecturer in Art, he specialized in portraiture, with notable contributions also in still-life and landscape photography in a variety of media. Holding an M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.F.A from the University of Oregon, Miller's extensive body of work has been featured worldwide, with many housed locally in the Portland Art Museum and private galleries. Miller was twice an artist in residence at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Photographers Archive.

Miller describes his photography in this way: "In my work, I have attempted to find the resonance at the mysterious place where the inner and outer realms come together. This place where resonance is created has been called mystical in religious and theological terminology, and it has been called mythopoeic in literary and mythological studies. Whatever it is called, photography that produces this resonance transports me to a realm that lies beyond the intellect, the abstract, and the analytical."

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Content Description

The collection contains the professional and personal photography of Robert Miller. Subjects include artists and writers, celebrities, and Pacific Northwest landscapes. The collection includes prints from the show Leaving Home (with Joyce De Monnin), Southwest landscapes, examples of professional photography, nature and abstract studies, portraits, and street scenes.

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Other Descriptive Information

Forms part of the Pacific Northwest Photographers Archive (PNPA).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in ten series. The order of the collection was provided by the artist unless likewise otherwise specified.

  • Portraits of Artists
  • New Mexico Portraits
  • Portraits from University of Oregon and Lewis and Clark College
  • Commercial photography I
  • Commercial photography II
  • Commercial photography III
  • Leaving Home Project
  • Unbound photographs
  • Associated materials
  • Negatives

Acquisition Information

Gift of Robert Miller, 2020, 2021.

Processing Note

Each series represents an original binder of items, which were disbound when processed unless otherwise specified. Photographic prints are identified by the frame number of the image on the corresponding contact sheet or negative (e.g., "A1.1" is frame "1" on contact sheet "A1").

Processed by Liam Patrick Bryant and Kelly Linhardt; processing completed in 2023. An accrual, PH2024-001, was merged with this collection in 2025 by Liam Patrick Bryant.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Portraits of Artists

    No user access copy is available for film negatives. Users may be able to obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee. Contact Special Collections for more information.

    • Woman with wide-brimmed hat

      • Description: Film negatives

        Restricted.

        10 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 1, Item PA1-PA4
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Woman with wide-brimmed hat

    • Gaynor Sterchi

      • Description: Film negatives

        One negative in this collection, PA12.2A, has an associated 11 x 14 in. print in Box 9, Folder 1.

        22 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 2, Item PA5-PA12
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Gaynor Sterchi

    • Barbara Remington

      Barbara Remington was an American ballerina. She danced in the American Ballet Theatre as a principal performer during the 1960s. Later in her career, she owned and operated her own studio in Portland, OR.

      • Description: Film negatives

        One negative in this collection, PA16.16A, has an associated 8 x 10 in. print in Box 4, Folder 1.

        Restricted.

        20 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 3, Item PA13-PA19
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barbara Remington

    • Jan Zach

      • Description: Jan Zach negatives

        Restricted.

        10 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 4, Item PA20-29
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jan Zach
      • Description: Jan Zach at desk
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 2, Item PA25.19A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jan Zach

    • Guntis Plésums

      Guntis Plésums (Plesums, Plēsums) (December 17, 1933–) is a Latvian-American architect and academic. He immigrated to the United States in 1950, and naturalized in 1954 after serving as an United States Army Sergeant. He received his Bachelor's in Architecture from the University of Minnesota in 1961, and his Master's in Architecture in 1964 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked commercially for two years following his Master's degree at Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise, before becoming an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967. He later moved to the University of Oregon in 1969, where he stayed until his retirement in 1995.

      • Description: Guntis Plésums negatives

        Restricted.

        1 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negative

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 5, Item PA30
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Guntis Plésums
      • Description: Guntis Plésums negatives

        From same shoot as item PA30.

        Restricted.

        5 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 5, Item PA31-PA35
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Guntis Plésums
      • Description: Guntis Plésums in dining room
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 3, Item PA30.8A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Guntis Plésums
      • Description: Guntis Plésums next to architectural model
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 3, Item PA33.14
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Guntis Plésums

    • David Foster

      • Description: David Foster contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 2, Item PA36-PA38
        Location: Portraits of Artists / David Foster
      • Description: David Foster contact sheet

        Composite of filmstrips from PA39b with additional frames from item PA582.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 2, Item PA39a
        Location: Portraits of Artists / David Foster
      • Description: David Foster negatives

        See item PA582 for negatives of additional frames.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 6, Item PA39b
        Location: Portraits of Artists / David Foster

    • Frederick Sommer

      Frederick Sommer (September 7, 1905–January 23, 1999) was an Italian-American photographer and academic. He was raised in Brazil, where he worked for his father's architectural firm, before moving to the United States in the late 1920s. He received his Master's in Landscape Architecture in 1927 from Cornell University, and afterwards settled permanently in Prescott, AZ. There, he developed his skills in photography, as well as his unique Surrealist style, through associations with gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz, fellow photographer Alfred Weston, and Dada-Surrealist artist Max Ernst. He made and innovated upon photographs in this signature style until his death sixty years later.

    • Sandra Stone

      Sandra Stone (also known as Sunny Peters, Sandra Peters, and Alessandria Stone) (April 4, 1934 – February 27, 2018) was a Portland-based visual and conceptual artist, poet, playwright, and author. Stone was widely acclaimed for her work, receiving numerous fellowships as well as the Oregon Literary Arts Book Award in 1998 and the Dana Award in Poetry in 2007. Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Republic, International Poetry Review, JAMA, The Midwest Quarterly, The Southwest Review, and elsewhere.

      All items from same shoot.

      • Description: Sandra Stone negatives

        Restricted.

        21 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 8, Item PA46-PA54
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sandra Stone
      • Description: Sandra Stone negatives

        30 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 9, Item PA55-PA64
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sandra Stone
      • Description: Sandra Stone negatives

        Restricted.

        10 black-and-white acetate 35mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 10, Item PA65-PA66
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sandra Stone
      • Description: Sandra Stone negatives

        Restricted.

        4 black-and-white acetate 35mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 10, Item PA67
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sandra Stone
      • Description: Sandra Stone negatives

        Restricted.

        3 black-and-white acetate 35mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 10, Item PA68
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sandra Stone

    • Paul Missal

      Paul Missal (February 21, 1941–) is an American painter born in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his career as an academic, before pivoting quickly into studio art. He received his Bachelor's of Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art, then completed his Master's of Arts in Contemporary Art at Yale University in 1968. Four years later, he moved to Portland to teach acrylic painting, a style-medium he developed during his education. The reputation gained by his emphatic portraiture and bold style contributed to the creation of the Blackfish Gallery in the late 1970s, a now-long-standing artists cooperative based in Portland.

      • Description: Paul Missal contact sheet
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 4, Item PA69
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Paul Missal

    • Don Merkt

      • Description: Don Merkt contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 5, Item PA70-PA79
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Don Merkt

    • Writer [Woman with sweater vest]

      Other Descriptive Information

      From accompanying material: Jean?

    • Kanetaka Ikeda

      Kanetaka Ikeda (1952–) is a Japanese-American painter born in Kushikino City, Japan. He naturalized to the United States a decade later in 1963. By 1980, he had received three degrees: a Bachelor's in Architecture from Oregon State University and the University of Oregon (1974), a Bachelor's of Science in Art from Portland State University (1977), and a Master's in Fine Arts in Sculpture from Portland State University (1980). His depth of education contributes to his cerebral, near-surreal style focused on polychrome, mixed-media sculpture, which he developed further through his involvement with the Blackfish Gallery scene upon graduating from PSU.

      • Description: Kanetaka Ikeda contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 7, Item PA91-PA94
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Kanetaka Ikeda

    • Charles Haney

      • Description: Charles Haney negatives

        24 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 15, Item PA95-PA102
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Charles Haney

    • Mary Barnard

      Mary Barnard (December 6, 1909–August 25, 2001) was an American poet, academic, and classicist. Born in Vancouver, Washington, she received her Bachelor's in Arts from Reed College in 1932. Her characteristic poetic tone was honed through her relationships with Imagist and Modernist poets such as Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and especially Ezra Pound, who pushed her to focus on translation as a means of honing her skills. Her elegant, succinct translations of Sappho's verse are often considered some of the best Ancient Greek-to-English translations ever accomplished.

      • Description: Mary Barnard contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 8, Item PA103-PA108
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mary Barnard

    • Ken Kesey

      • Description: Ken Kasey contact sheets
        Dates: May 3, 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 9, Item PA109-PA116
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Ken Kesey
      • Description: Ken Kesey standing in swamp
        Dates: May 3, 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 6, Item PA109.6
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Ken Kesey

    • Kim Stafford

      Kim Stafford (October 15, 1949–) is an American poet. Born in Portland, Oregon, he earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate of Arts at Portland State University. He began teaching at Lewis and Clark College in 1979, where he continues to work to this day. He was named the Oregon State Poet Laureate in 2018.

      • Description: Kim Stafford contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 10, Item PA117-PA122
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Kim Stafford

    • Laura Ross Paul

      • Description: Laura Ross Paul negatives

        Restricted.

        28 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 19, Item PA123-PA130
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Laura Ross Paul

    • Mary Josephson

      Mary Josephson (1953–) is an American multimedia artist. She was born in Portland, Oregon. She studied at the École National Superior des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, before receiving her Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, in 1986. She has continued to work out of Portland since her graduation.

      • Description: Mary Josephson negatives

        Restricted.

        36 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 20, Item PA131-PA138
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mary Josephson

    • Bruce West

      • Description: Bruce West contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 11, Item PA139-PA140
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Bruce West

    • James Canfield

      James Canfield is an American ballerino, ballet instructor, and director. He was born in Corning, New York, and received training at Washington School of Ballet before graduating to the Joffrey Ballet where he worked as a professional dancer for more than a decade. He co-founded the Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) in 1989 and served in that role until 2003. In 2008, he became a temporary director at the Nevada Ballet Theatre (NBT), and assumed the role permanently a year later.

      Other Descriptive Information

      For items PA149-154, see also items PA914-922.

      • Description: James Canfield contact sheets

        Color prints. From same shoot as items PA145-PA146.

        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA141-PA144
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield contact sheets
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA145-PA146
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield contact sheets

        Composites of items from PA139-144 with additional frames. Negatives for additional frames not on file.

        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA147-PA148
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield onstage at a ballet with Patricia Miller
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA149-PA150
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield feigning nervousness at a ballet with Patricia Miller
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA151
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield backstage at a ballet with Patricia Miller
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA152-PA153
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield and Patricia Miller at party

        Probably an event related to the ballet production in which they featured.

        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 12, Item PA154
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield with hands behind head

        Negative not on file.

        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 5, Item PA155
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield with exposed torso
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 5, Item PA144.16
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield looking down
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 5, Item PA145.36
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield with hand on forehead

        Printed in black-and-white from color negative.

        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 5, Item PA142.28
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield looking over shoulder
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 5, Item PA148.26
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield
      • Description: James Canfield sitting next to passer-by
        Dates: between 1984 and 1994
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 5, Item PA147.2
        Location: Portraits of Artists / James Canfield

    • Barbara Bartholomew

      • Description: Barbara Bartholomew contact sheets

        Color prints. Larger than items PA158-166, but from same shoot.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 13, Item PA156-PA157
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barbara Bartholomew
      • Description: Barbara Bartholomew contact sheets

        Black-and-white prints.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 13, Item PA158-PA166
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barbara Bartholomew
      • Description: Barbara Bartholomew contact sheet

        Negatives not on file. From same shoot as PA158-166.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 13, Item PA167
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barbara Bartholomew
      • Description: Barbara Bartholomew negatives

        Not from the same shoot as items PA156-166.

        15 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 23, Item PA168-PA170
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barbara Bartholomew
      • Description: Barbara Bartholomew negatives

        Not from the same shoot as items PA156-166.

        Restricted.

        4 black-and-white acetate 35mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 23, Item PA171
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barbara Bartholomew

    • Man with shoulder-length hair

    • Denis Johnson

      Denis Johnson (July 1, 1949–May 24, 2017) was an American writer. He was born in Germany, and lived briefly in the Philippines, Japan, and Washington D.C. He received his Bachelor's of English from the University of Iowa (1971) and later pursued his Master's in Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (1974), where he would teach later in his career. His poems, novels, and playbooks received critical acclaim during his lifetime.

      • Description: Denis Johnson contact sheets

        Color prints. From same shoot as PA187-189.

        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA180-PA183
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson contact sheets
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA184-PA189
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson looking at camera
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA181.5
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Close shot of Denis Johnson looking at camera
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA182.5
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson in three-quarter profile
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA181.11
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Close shot of Denis Johnson in three-quarter profile
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA182.16
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson smiling at camera
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA182.14
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson on porch with dog
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA183.25a
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson on porch with dog

        Larger format than item PA181.25a.

        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA183.25b
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson resting head on dog
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA183.28
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Close shot of Denis Johnson resting head on dog
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA183.34
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson smiling on porch with dog
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA183.20
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson
      • Description: Denis Johnson lying next to dog
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 15, Item PA187.37
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Denis Johnson

    • William Christenberry

      • Description: William Christenberry contact sheets

        Shows three unnamed women, possibly from different shoots.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 16, Item PA190-PA195
        Location: Portraits of Artists / William Christenberry
      • Description: William Christenberry looking at camera
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 16, Item PA192.18
        Location: Portraits of Artists / William Christenberry

    • Sloy Nichols

      Sloy (Sandra Loy) Nichols (June 9, 1943–May 9, 2022) was an American artist. She was well known for her Portland-based collaborations with her partner Nic (Dave) Nichols under the working name nicholsloy (also nicholsloystudio, nicandsloy) which produced artwork from 1960 to 2018.

      Though the primary subject is Sloy Nichols, Nic Nichols features prominently.

      • Description: Sloy Nichols contact sheets

        Color print. From same shoot as PA204-209.

        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 17, Item PA196-PA203
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols contact sheets

        Black-and-white print.

        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 17, Item PA204-PA209
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols embraced by Nic Nichols
        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 17, Item PA208.21a
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols looking into camera with Nic Nichols
        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 17, Item PA209.19
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols and Nic Nichols embracing each other in doorway
        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 6, Item PA198.36
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols by bedpost with Nic Nichols
        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 6, Item PA203.25
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols and Nic Nichols embracing each other in studio
        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 6, Item PA200.15
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols
      • Description: Sloy Nichols embraced by Nic Nichols

        Larger format than item PA208.21a.

        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 6, Item PA208.21b
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sloy Nichols

    • Liz Mapelli

      • Description: Liz Mapelli contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 18, Item PA210-PA221
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Liz Mapelli

    • Tomáš Svoboda

      Tomáš (Tomas) Svoboda (December 6, 1939–) is a Czech-American composer. He was born in Paris and grew up in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he attended the Prague Conservatory in 1954. After obtaining his degrees in Conducting, Percussion, and Composition, he continued refining his craft at the Prague Academy of Music. He moved to the United States two years later, and by 1969 received a Master's with Honors in Musical Composition from the University of Southern California. That same year he accepted a position at Portland State University teaching composition and theory, where he worked until 1998, composing all the while. His works have received numerous accolades and critical acclaim during his lifetime.

      • Description: Tomáš Svoboda contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 19, Item PA222-PA231
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Tomáš Svoboda

    • William Jamison

    • Penny Allen

      Penny Allen is a French-American filmmaker, activist, and author. Alternating between Portland and Paris throughout her life, Allen has produced feature films for major cinematic festivals, as well as several books. She continues to practice her craft in France.

      • Description: Penny Allen contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 4, Folder 21, Item PA242-PA247
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Penny Allen

    • Dale Chihuly

      Though the primary subject is Dale Chihuly, other unnamed subjects feature prominently.

      • Description: Dale Chihuly contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 1, Item PA248-PA252
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Dale Chihuly

    • Annin Barrett

      • Description: Annin Barrett contact sheets

        Color prints.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 2, Item PA253-PA254
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Annin Barrett
      • Description: Annin Barrett contact sheets

        Black-and-white prints.

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 2, Item PA255-PA263
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Annin Barrett
      • Description: Annin Barrett resting cheek on cold clothes iron
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 7, Item PA253.31
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Annin Barrett

    • Cynthia Gano

      Cynthia Gano Lewis (April 5, 1950–) is an American photographer and proprietor. Born in Berkeley, California, Gano Lewis earned her Bachelor's of Arts in Studio Arts from the University of Arizona and Bard College in 1978. Three years earlier, she had founded the Lewis Framing Studio with her partner, as well as the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. She continues to practice photography focused on the experiences of the female body.

      • Description: Cynthia Gano contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 3, Item PA264-PA271
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Cynthia Gano
      • Description: Cynthia Gano negatives

        From same shoot as items PA264-271.

        Restricted.

        8 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 1, Folder 34, Item PA272-PA273
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Cynthia Gano

    • Keith Scales

      • Description: Keith Scales contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 4, Item PA274-PA281
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Keith Scales

    • Will Vinton

      Will (William Gale) Vinton (November 17, 1947–October 4, 2018) was an American entrepreneur and stop-motion animator. Born in McMinnville, Oregon, Winton later earned his Bachelor's of Arts in Architecture from the University of California in 1970. He moved to Portland, Oregon that year, and began pioneering what he would later call "claymation". Five years later, he founded his eponymous studio for stop-motion animation, and produced their trademark clay-based media for more than two decades before retiring. His most noted achievements include the "California Raisins" and the Domino's Pizza "Noid", as well as feature films, minor studio credits, and technological innovations. Winton was the first Oregonian to win an Academy Award.

      Shows Easter bunny character from Will Vinton's Claymation Easter, which earned him the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 1992.

      • Description: Will Vinton contact sheets
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 5, Item PA282-PA295
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Will Vinton
      • Description: Will Vinton smiling with Claymation Easter bunny
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 5, Item PA283.31
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Will Vinton
      • Description: Will Vinton with hand on hip holding Claymation Easter bunny
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 5, Item PA284.18
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Will Vinton
      • Description: Will Vinton resting head on hand
        Dates: 1992
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 5, Item PA286.16
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Will Vinton

    • Writer [Woman on beach]

    • Mary Oslund

      • Description: Mary Oslund contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 7, Item PA303-PA316
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mary Oslund

    • Michihiro Kosuge

      Michihiro "Michi" Kosuge (1943–2021) was a Japanese sculptor and educator. He began his education at the Tokyo Sumida Technical School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1961. He moved to the United States six years later to continue his work at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his Master's of Fine Arts (1970). In 1978, Kosuge began his professorship at Portland State University, where he worked until his retirement in 2003. By his passing, Kosuge had become well known for his organicized stoneworks gracing over a hundred commissions and shows across the world.

      • Description: Michihiro Kosuge contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 8, Item PA317-PA324
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Michihiro Kosuge

    • John Callahan

      John Callahan (February 5, 1951–July 24, 2010) was an American cartoonist and artist from The Dalles, Oregon. Drawing frequently on his experiences with quadripeligia and child abuse, Callahan published (often divisive) comics regularly in the Wilamette Week from 1983 until his death. Based primarily in Oregon, Callahan often shined a dark humorist's light on disability, and faced nationwide acclaim (and disdain) for his work as a result.

      • Description: John Callahan contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 9, Item PA325-PA330
        Location: Portraits of Artists / John Callahan

    • Marie Selland-Taylor

      Marie Selland-Taylor (October 22, 1927–October 28, 2006) was an American actor born in Happy Valley, California. In 1946, she attended Fresno State University, and began her acting career in television and film as part of repertory theaters across Southern California. Her work during this period is exemplified by her role as Martha Lomax in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). In the 1980s, she relocated to Oregon, and became heavily involved in repertory theaters and players groups in the area, eventually writing and performing many original works. In the 1990s, she created many programs with local Portland studio Dreamswell, until her passing in 2006.

    • Ed Edmo

      Ed Edmo is a storyteller and artist born in Nevada, enrolled in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, and with Nez Pierce and Yakama ancestors. Edmo grew up in his father's ancestral home of Celilo Village along the Columbia River, where he learned his ancestors' stories of Coyote and the Columbia River herself that later grew to be hallmarks of his career. Edmo guides guests on traditional lands as a steward, acts as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum for the American Indian, and writes plays, poems, prose, and music. An accomplished artist, his one-act play Grandma Choke Cherry received critical acclaim upon its release, and he continues to storytell across the continent.

      • Description: Ed Edmo contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 11, Item PA340-PA345
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Ed Edmo

    • Peter Teneau

      Peter Valentin Teneau (May 1, 1929–June 30, 2023) was an American sculptor. Known for his abstract geometric forms, Teneau worked closely within and without the Pacific Northwest, and notably with the Smithsonian for their "Save Outdoor Sculpture" program in the 1980s. Much of his work remains in his home state of Oregon.

      • Description: Peter Teneau contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 12, Item PA346-PA353
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Peter Teneau

    • Robert Hanson

      Robert Hanson (1936–2011) was an American artist born in Washington D.C. After receiving his degree in printmaking from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1961, Hanson grew his craft as a graphic designer before moving to Portland in 1968 to teach at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. During the course of his career, he came to specialize in portraiture known for its dynamic and sincere renderings, and much of his work remains around Oregon and the Pacific Northwest at large.

      • Description: Robert Hanson contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 13, Item PA354-PA359
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Robert Hanson

    • Charles Deemer

      Charles Deemer (1939–) is an American educator and playwright based in Portland, Oregon. During his career, he produced over 40 plays, numerous published short stories and essays, and six optioned screenplays. Since graduating from UCLA in 1961, Deemer has been at the forefront of modern theatre: he won the 1997 Crossing Borders play competition; has received awards for his work in public television; pioneered "hyperdrama," an experimental theater form with branching narratives and simultaneous scenes; created early websites for writers; and even collaborated on operas. He continues his career as a lecturer teaching screenwriting at Portland State University.

      • Description: Charles Deemer contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 14, Item PA360-PA367
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Charles Deemer

    • Angelita Surmon

      Angelita Surmon (1950–) is an American multimedia artist from Lebanon, Oregon.

      • Description: Angelita Surmon contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 15, Item PA368-PA375
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Angelita Surmon

    • Frank Boyden

      Frank Boyden (1942–) is an American sculptor and printer.

    • Virginia Haseltine

      Virgina Marquette Haseltine (1906–1991) was an American arts philanthropist based in the Pacific Northwest.

      • Description: Virginia Haseltine contact sheets
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 17, Item PA386-PA389
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Virginia Haseltine
      • Description: Virginia Haseltine negatives

        From same shoot as PA386-389.

        12 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 2, Folder 2, Item PA390-PA392
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Virginia Haseltine
      • Description: Virginia Haseltine looking at camera
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 9, Item PA391.21
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Virginia Haseltine
      • Description: Virginia Haseltine looking at camera with raised chin
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 9, Item PA387.1A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Virginia Haseltine

    • Shirley Gittleson

    • Allen Kluber

    • Barry Lopez

      Probably shot in Lane County, Oregon.

      • Description: Barry Lopez contact sheet
        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 20, Item PA407
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barry Lopez
      • Description: Barry Lopez negatives

        Possibly from same shoot as item PA407.

        Restricted.

        44 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 2, Folder 5, Item PA408-PA418
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barry Lopez
      • Description: Barry Lopez next to McKenzie River
        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 5, Folder 20, Item PA407.31
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Barry Lopez

    • Harrison Branch

    • Harry Widman

    • Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm

    • Jacob Avshalomov

      • Description: Jacob Avshalomov contact sheets
        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 2, Item PA442-PA450
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jacob Avshalomov
      • Description: Jacob Avshalomov contact sheet

        No negatives on file. From same shoot as items PA442-450.

        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 2, Item PA451
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jacob Avshalomov

    • John Hamilton

    • Frederick Littman

    • Lawrence Smith

      Other Descriptive Information

      Also known as Lawrence Leighton Smith.

    • Allen Goldsby

    • Terry Toedtemeier

    • Jan Dryer McCauley

    • William Stafford

      • Description: William Stafford contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 9, Item PA502-PA509
        Location: Portraits of Artists / William Stafford

    • Jim Blashfield

    • Stanley Radhuber

    • Henk Pender

      • Description: Henk Pender contact sheets
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 12, Item PA519-PA526
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Henk Pender
      • Description: Henk Pender negatives

        No negatives on file. Not from same shoot as items PA525-532.

        Restricted.

        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 2, Folder 19, Item PA527-PA528
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Henk Pender
      • Description: Henk Pender with arms crossed
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 17, Item PA519.3
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Henk Pender

    • Ursula K. LeGuin

    • Michele Russo

    • Tom Fawkes

      • Description: Tom Fawkes contact sheets
        Dates: 1989
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 15, Item PA545-PA548
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Tom Fawkes

    • Judy Fawkes

      • Description: Judy Fawkes contact sheets
        Dates: 1989
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 16, Item PA549-PA552
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Judy Fawkes

    • Lola Desmond

    • John Yeon

      • Description: John Yeon contact sheets
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 18, Item PA560-PA565
        Location: Portraits of Artists / John Yeon
      • Description: John Yeon on sofa
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 21, Item PA564.16A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / John Yeon

    • Lou Ocepek

      Other Descriptive Information

      Also known as Louis Ocepek.

      • Description: Lou Ocepek contact sheets
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 19, Item PA566-PA572
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Lou Ocepek
      • Description: Lou Ocepek looking at camera
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 22, Item PA566.19
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Lou Ocepek
      • Description: Lou Ocepek looking at camera from side
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 22, Item PA567.5A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Lou Ocepek

    • LaVerne Krause

      • Description: LaVerne Krause contact sheets

        Item PA576 has two superimposed film strips.

        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 20, Item PA573-PA578
        Location: Portraits of Artists / LaVerne Krause
      • Description: LaVerne Krause on sofa
        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 20, Item PA576.6A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / LaVerne Krause
      • Description: LaVerne Krause with wineglass
        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 20, Item PA576.14Aa
        Location: Portraits of Artists / LaVerne Krause
      • Description: LaVerne Krause with wineglass

        Larger format than item PA574.14Aa.

        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 23, Item PA574.14Ab
        Location: Portraits of Artists / LaVerne Krause

    • Jack Portland

    • John Stahl

    • Carolyn Cole

      • Description: Carolyn Cole contact sheets
        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 6, Folder 23, Item PA593-PA604
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Carolyn Cole
      • Description: Close shot of Carolyn Cole
        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 25, Item PA593.6A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Carolyn Cole
      • Description: Carolyn Cole leaning on chairback
        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 25, Item PA598.24
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Carolyn Cole
      • Description: Close shot of Carolyn Cole leaning on chairback
        Dates: 1978
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 25, Item PA598.22
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Carolyn Cole

    • Manuel Izquierdo

      • Description: Manuel Izquierdo contact sheets
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 1, Item PA605-PA616
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Manuel Izquierdo

    • Sonny Sorrells

      • Description: Sonny Sorrells contact sheets
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 2, Item PA617-PA625
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sonny Sorrells
      • Description: Sonny Sorrells in bathroom

        From attached material: ...Sunny Sorrells [sic] (below) plies his dramatic art for photographer Bob Miller without need of a script. Sorrels' [sic] most recent performance was in "Kennedy's Children" at Storefront Theater.

        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 26, Item PA618.3A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sonny Sorrells
      • Description: Sonny Sorrels in night gown
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 26, Item PA617.19
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Sonny Sorrells

    • Ric Young

      • Description: Ric Young contact sheets
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 3, Item PA626-PA632
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Ric Young
      • Description: Ric Young in bedroom
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 27, Item PA630.11
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Ric Young
      • Description: Ric Young in three-piece suit
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 27, Item PA627.4
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Ric Young

    • Louis Bunce

      • Description: Louis Bunce negatives

        Restricted.

        3 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 2, Folder 34, Item PA633
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Louis Bunce
      • Description: Louis Bunce contact sheets
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 4, Item PA634-PA640
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Louis Bunce
      • Description: Louis Bunce smoking cigarette
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 4, Item PA636.6
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Louis Bunce

    • Lucinda Parker

    • Pietro Belluschi

      • Description: Pietro Belluschi contact sheets
        Dates: May 3, 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 6, Item PA648-PA652
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Pietro Belluschi
      • Description: Pietro Belluschi in armchair
        Dates: May 3, 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 28, Item PA648.13
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Pietro Belluschi
      • Description: Pietro Belluschi leaning on bookcase

        From atttached material: Oregon's most famous architect and former dean of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at home in house that he designed.

        Clipping from The Oregonian newspaper, probably from Portland.

        Dates: May 3, 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 28, Item PA652.6A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Pietro Belluschi

    • Rachael Griffin

    • Leigh Clark-Granville

    • Primus St. John

    • David Cotter

    • Jeannie Hoffman

      • Description: Jeannie Hoffman contact sheets
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 11, Item PA690-PA693b
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jeannie Hoffman
      • Description: Jeannie Hoffman contact sheet

        Contains duplicate filmstrip print for item CF[Bill Naito].

        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 11, Item PA694
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jeannie Hoffman
      • Description: Jeannie Hoffman leaning on piano
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 11, Item PA690.7A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jeannie Hoffman
      • Description: Close shot of Jeannie Hoffman leaning on piano
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 11, Item PA691.11
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jeannie Hoffman
      • Description: Jeannie Hoffman performing at piano
        Dates: 1985
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 11, Item PA694.17A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Jeannie Hoffman

    • Bette Feves

    • Gordan Gilkey

    • Claire Trotter

      Other Descriptive Information

      Though the primary subject is Claire Trottor, Dean Trottor features prominently.

    • Jack McClarty

    • Thomas Morandi

    • George Johansen

    • Richard Vidan

      • Description: Richard Vidan contact sheets
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 18, Item PA758-PA768
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Richard Vidan
      • Description: Richard Vidan negatives

        From same shoot as items PA758-768.

        Restricted.

        3 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 3, Folder 10, Item PA769
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Richard Vidan
      • Description: Richard Vidan with arms raised above head
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 36, Item PA758.20A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Richard Vidan

    • Bonnie Bronson

      Other Descriptive Information

      Though the primary subject is Bonnie Bronson, Lee Kelly features prominently.

    • Vincent McDermott

      • Description: Vincent McDermott contact sheets
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 20, Item PA781-PA789
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Vincent McDermott
      • Description: Vincent McDermott next to bonang

        A bonang is an Indonesian percussion idiophone instrument commonly found in Javanese gamelan: a musical ensemble from in Southeast Asia, consisting of various combinations of vocal, percussion, and woodwind instruments, often for dances and religious or ceremonial events.

        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 7, Folder 20, Item PA782.9A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Vincent McDermott

    • Francisco Reynders

    • Mel Schuler

      • Description: Mel Schuler contact sheets
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 2, Item PA810-PA823
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mel Schuler
      • Description: Mel Schuler on lawn chair looking at camera
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 38, Item PA815.12A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mel Schuler
      • Description: Mel Schuler on lawn chair looking away from camera
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 38, Item PA810.12
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mel Schuler
      • Description: Mel Schuler leaning on wooden beam
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 38, Item PA812.24
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Mel Schuler

    • Vera Scott

      • Description: Vera Scott contact sheets
        Dates: 1984
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 3, Item PA824-PA825
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Vera Scott

    • Vern Rutsala

      • Description: Vern Rutsala contact sheets
        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 4, Item PA830-PA836
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Vern Rutsala
      • Description: Vern Rutsala contact sheet

        No negatives on file. From same shoot as items PA830-836.

        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 4, Item PA837
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Vern Rutsala

    • Kenneth O. Hanson

    • Vi Gale

      • Description: Vi Gale contact sheets
        Dates: 1989
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 6, Item PA842-PA846
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Vi Gale

    • Sally Haley

    • Hilda Morris

      • Description: Hilda Morris contact sheets
        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 8, Item PA853-PA858
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Hilda Morris
      • Description: Hilda Morris negatives

        Probably from same shoot as items PA853-858.

        1 sleeve (4 filmstrips): black-and-white 70mm photographic film

        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 3, Folder 20, Item PA859
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Hilda Morris
      • Description: Hilda Morris negatives

        Probably from same shoot as items PA853-858.

        8 black-and-white acetate 61mm photographic negatives

        Dates: 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 3, Folder 20, Item PA860-PA867
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Hilda Morris

    • Christine Bourdette

    • Marlene Bauer

    • Gregory Grenon

    • George Green

    • Craig Lesley

    • Ed Carpenter

    • Patricia Miller

      Other Descriptive Information

      See also items PA149-154.

    • John Weber

      • Description: John Weber contact sheets
        Dates: 1987?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 16, Item PA923-924
        Location: Portraits of Artists / John Weber

    • Gary Miranda

    • Josie Moseley

      Other Descriptive Information

      Josie Moseley is the primary subject, but other dancers from her dance company feature prominently.

      • Description: Josie Moseley contact sheets
        Dates: between 1981 and 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 18, Item PA932-938
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Dancer from Josie Moseley's dance company
        Dates: between 1981 and 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 18, Item PA939
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley posing with dancer next to pulling boat
        Dates: between 1981 and 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 18, Item PA940
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley posing with dancer mid-jump
        Dates: between 1981 and 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 18, Item PA941
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley mid-jump with dancer onlooking
        Dates: between 1981 and 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 18, Item PA942
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley balancing on chair with dancers
        Dates: between 1981 and 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 18, Item PA943
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley posing with dancer on pulling boat
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA944
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley seated with dancer near mirror
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA945
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley seated near dancer mid-jump
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA946
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley with fabric stretched over face
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA947
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley posing with stretched fabric
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA948
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Dancers embracing Josie Moseley's torso
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA949
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Shirtless dancers turned away from camera
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA950
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley
      • Description: Josie Moseley looking at camera
        Dates: 1981-1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 9, Folder 42, Item PA933.24
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Josie Moseley

    • Marie Lyman

      • Description: Marie Lyman contact sheets
        Dates: 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 19, Item PA951-965
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Marie Lyman
      • Description: Marie Lyman contact sheets
        Dates: 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 20, Item PA966-980
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Marie Lyman
      • Description: Marie Lyman negatives

        Not from same shoot as items PA951-980.

        Restricted.

        2 black-and-white acetate 35mm photographic negatives

        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 3, Folder 31, Item PA981
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Marie Lyman
      • Description: Marie Lyman looking at camera
        Dates: 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 20, Item PA951.26
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Marie Lyman
      • Description: Close shot of Marie Lyman looking at camera
        Dates: 1986?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 20, Item PA953.8
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Marie Lyman

    • Jay Backstrand

      Painter.

    • Rene Rickabaugh

    • James DePriest

    • Carl Morris

      • Description: Carl Morris contact sheets
        Dates: 1985?
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 24, Item PA1000-1004
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Carl Morris

    • Pamela Satchett

      Writer.

    • Linda Connor

      Photographer.

      • Description: Linda Connor negatives
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 3, Folder 36, Item PA1006-1007
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Linda Connor
      • Description: Linda Connor looking at camera
        Dates: between 1977 and 1987
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 8, Folder 25, Item PA1007.7A
        Location: Portraits of Artists / Linda Connor

  • New Mexico Portraits

    • Doel Reed

      • Description: Doel Reed contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 1, Item NM1–NM8
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Doel Reed

    • Dorothy Brett

      • Description: Dorothy Brett contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 2, Item NM9–NM12
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Dorothy Brett

    • Earl Stroh

      • Description: Earl Stroh contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 3, Item NM13-NM22
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Earl Stroh

    • Noel Farrand

      • Description: Noel Farrand contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 4, Item NM23-NM28
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Noel Farrand

    • Edward Swift

      • Description: Edward Swift contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 5, Item NM29-NM35
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Edward Swift

    • Robert Kostka

      • Description: Robert Kostka contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 6, Item NM36-NM41
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Robert Kostka

    • Andrew Dasburg

      • Description: Andrew Dasburg contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 7, Item NM42–NM47
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Andrew Dasburg

    • Frank Waters

      • Description: Frank Waters contact sheets

        Box 11, Folder 8 contains an 8 x 10 in. prints for the following item: NM51.5.

        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 8, Item NM48-NM52
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Frank Waters
      • Description: Frank Waters in profile
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Item NM48.4
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Frank Waters
      • Description: Frank Waters in birch grove
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Item NM49.1A
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Frank Waters

    • Robert Miller

      • Description: Robert Miller contact sheet
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 9, Item NM53
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Robert Miller

    • Juan Trujillo

      • Description: Juan Trujillo contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 10, Item NM54-NM57
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Juan Trujillo

    • Unknown writer [Man with thick mustache]

    • Maggie Kress

      • Description: Maggie Kress contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 12, Item NM62-NM67
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Maggie Kress

    • Tally Richards

      • Description: Tally Richards contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 13, Item NM68-NM73
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Tally Richards

    • Henry Saurwein, Jr.

    • Etta Blum

      • Description: Etta Blum contact sheets
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 15, Item NM81-NM88
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Etta Blum
      • Description: Close shot of Etta Blum
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 35, Folder 1, Item NM81.15A
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Etta Blum

    • Lou Harrison

      • Description: Lou Harrison contact sheets

        Box 11, Folder 16 contains an 8 x 10 in. prints for the following item: NM94.2A.

        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 16, Item NM89-NM94
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Lou Harrison
      • Description: Lou Harrison posed with hand on cheek
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 16, Item NM94.2A
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Lou Harrison

    • Ray Maldonado

      • Description: Ray Maldonado contact sheets

        Box 11, Folder 17 contains 8 x 10 in. prints for the following items: NM95.18A; NM98.15A; NM98.24; NM100.14A.

        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 17, Item NM95-NM102
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Ray Maldonado
      • Description: Ray Maldonado posed near porch
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 17, Item NM96.17A
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Ray Maldonado
      • Description: Close shot of Ray Maldonado posed near archway
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 17, Item NM98.24
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Ray Maldonado
      • Description: Ray Maldonado posed near archway
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 17, Item NM99.15A
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Ray Maldonado
      • Description: Ray Maldonado in three-quarters profile
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 17, Item NM100.14A
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Ray Maldonado

    • Rosa Ellis

      • Description: Rosa Ellis contact sheets

        Box 11, Folder 18 contains 8 x 10 in. prints for the following items: NM105.23; NM107.9.

        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 18, Item NM103-NM110
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Rosa Ellis
      • Description: Rosa Ellis in three quarters profile
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 18, Item NM105.23
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Rosa Ellis
      • Description: Rosa Ellis posed against wall
        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 18, Item NM105.8
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Rosa Ellis

    • Margaret Wood

      • Description: Margaret Wood contact sheets

        From accompanying material: Caregiver for Georgia O'Keefe.

        Dates: between 1979 and 1980
        Container: Box PH1644 Box 11, Folder 19, Item NM111-NM115
        Location: New Mexico Portraits / Margaret Wood

    • Art model [Woman on chaise]

  • Portraits at University of Oregon and Lewis and Clark College

    Photos taken while Robert Miller was affiliated with the University of Oregon and Lewis and Clark College, nearly all of students. Only processed at the series level.

    See Miscellaneous for oversized prints of frames from items in this series.

  • Professional work I

    • Description: Untitled photographs of families and children contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 14, Folder 2 (8 x 10 in. print of CP18.22) and Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CP2.23, CP9.8, CP14.6, CP16.1, CP16.26, CP17.6, CP20.7, CP20.8).

      Dates: between 1985 and 2005
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 1-2, Item CP1-CP31
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Russian old believers [Family in Eastern Orthodox dress] contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 14, Folder 3 (8 x 10 in. print of CP36.5); Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CP32.20, CP33.13A); Box 32 (13.5 x 15 in. prints of CP32.20, CP33.13A).

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 3, Item CP32-CP36
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Untitled photographs of families and children contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CP47.20, CP59.17A) and Box 34 (16 x 20 in. print of CP61.4).

      Dates: between 1980 and 2005
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 4-7, Item CP37-CP62
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Mark Hatfield contact sheets

      One negative in this collection, CP64, has an associated 5 x 7 in. print in Box 14, Folder 8.

      Dates: between 1985 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 8, Item CP63–CP64
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Untitled photographs of families and children contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 14, Folder 9 (8 x 10 in. prints of CP69, CP70); Box 14, Folder 10 (8 x 10 in. print of CP77.38); Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CP66.38, CP84.38, CP85.38, CP110.26).

      Dates: between 1985 and 1999
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 9-12, Item CP65-CP111
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Nakama and child [Woman holding infant] contact sheets
      Dates: between 1980 and 1989
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 13, Item CP112-CP125
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Untitled photographs of families and children contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 14, Folder 14 (8 x 10 in. print of CP130.37); Box 14, Folder 16 (8 x 10 in. print of CP139.32); Box 14, Folder 17 (8 x 10 in. print of CP151); Box 14, Folder 18 (8 x 10 in. prints of CP158.14, CP152.10A, CP157.4, CP161.3–CP161.4, 160.13A, 162); Box 14, Folder 19 (8 x 10 in. print of CP180.6); Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CP166.35, CP175.29, CP179.34, CP 186.7, CP186.16, CP192.2); Box 34 (16 x 20 in. prints of CP157.4, CP161.4).

      Dates: between 1980 and 1999
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 14, Folder 14-21, Item CP126-CP194
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Untitled photographs of families and children contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 15, Folder 1 (8 x 10 in. print of CP204) and Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CP216.20A, CP220.9, CP227.35, CP239.34, CP242.33, CP285.20A, CP290-CP291).

      Dates: between 1980 and 1999
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 15, Folder 1-9, Item CP195-CP290
      Location: Professional work I
    • Description: Untitled photographs of families and children oversize prints
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 16
      Location: Professional work I

  • Professional work II

    Despite both being commercial photography, these materials in this series were separated from the materials in Commercial photograph I by the artist, and have a narrower date range overall.

    Other Descriptive Information

    From associated materials: 'Untitled', unless otherwise noted - (Portraits, Fashion, Print).

    • Description: The Ink Spots contact sheets
      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 19, Folder 1-2, Item CT1-CT23
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Bill Naito contact sheets

      One negative in this collection, CT27, has an associated 8 x 10 in. print in Box 19, Folder 3.

      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 19, Folder 3, Item CT24-CT27
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Joanie Alminiana contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 19, Folder 6 (8 x 10 in. prints of CT28.23, CT29.11A, CT31.14, CT33.14A, CT47.20A, CT49.28A, CT62.0) and Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CT28.14, CT32.11A, CT32.61A, CT44.1A, CT47.20A, CT55.17, CT55.21).

      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 19, Folder 4-6, Item CT28-CT63
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Judith Aftergut contact sheets
      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 19, Folder 7, Item CT64-74
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Untitled portraits contact sheets

      Some negatives in this collection have associated prints. Prints related to the negatives in this box can be found in: Box 16 (11 x 14 in. prints of CT77.17, CT78.20, CT79.30, CT82.10A, CT107.1, CT107.35, CT110.7A, CT112.24, CT117.17, CT125.22, CT126.18); Box 19, Folder 8 (8 x 10 in. prints of CT77.2, CT77.15, CT77.17); Box 19, Folder 23 (5 x 7 in. prints of CT190.8, CT190.44, CT191.24, CT191.26, CT193.13, CT194.33, CT195.13); Box 20, Folder 7 (8 x 10 in. prints of CT267.26, CT267.31); Box 20, Folder 12 (8 x 10 in. print of CT323.12); Box 20, Folder 14 (5 x 7 in. prints of CT354.2, CT354.10, CT356.11, CT358.49); Box 23 (11 x 14 in. prints of CT313.13, CT314.35A, CT314.36A, CT316.32, CT324.8, CT349.28).

      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 19, Folder 8-15, Item CT75-CT199
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Untitled portraits contact sheets, between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 20, Folder 1-17, Item CT200-CT403
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Untitled portraits contact sheets

      General Note: Box 21, Folder 5 contains 8 x 10 in. prints of the following items: CT446.2; CT447.2; CT448.23; CT448.26; CT449.26; CT449.29; CT450.1; CT451.25; CT451.26. Box 21, Folder 6 contains 8 x 10 in. prints of the following items: CT460.9; CT460.18; CT460.24; CT460.28; CT460.30; CT460.32; CT461.16; CT461.24; CT465.S; CT465.34. Box 21, Folder 10 contains an 8 x 10 in. print of the following item: CT497.15. Box 23 contains 11 x 14 in. prints of the following items: CT404.27; CT404.29; CT406.21; CT419.28; CT420.15; CT421.35; CT423.16; CT427.33; CT429.5; CT430.16; CT434.3; CT434.15; CT435.31; CT436.19; CT437.34 ; CT445.37; CT466.18; CT467.35; CT477.24; CT479.32; CT480.15; CT482.2; CT487.24; CT487.35; CT488.25; CT489.18; CT489.27; CT493.36; CT495.8; CT495.35; CT495.38; CT496.11; CT500.28.

      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 21, Folder 1-12, Item CT404-CT508
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Untitled oversize portrait prints

      Portraits subjects include Joanie Alminiana, labeled on verso as Joanie Wells.

      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 22
      Location: Professional work II
    • Description: Untitled oversize portrait prints
      Dates: between 1984 and 1992
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 23
      Location: Professional work II

  • Professional work III

    Other Descriptive Information

    From associated material: [...] personal/commercial [...] nudes.

    • Description: Untitled nudes contact sheets

      Box 25, Folder 20 contains one 8 x 10 in. print for the following item: CN61.13.

      Box 23 contains 11 x 14 in. prints for the following items: CN61.13; CN190.15A.

      Dates: between 1984 and 2004
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 25, Folder 1-24, Item CN1-CN209
      Location: Professional work III
    • Description: Untitled nudes contact sheets
      Dates: between 1984 and 2004
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 26, Folder 1-17, Item CN210-CN364
      Location: Professional work III

  • Leaving Home Project

    From associated materials: [...] collaboration between Robert B. Miller and Joyce De Monnin. [Joyce De Monnin narrates that] One beautiful July morning as I was getting ready for work, the phone rang. My sister Charlyne said the caregiver had been fired, and Mom couldn't be left home alone. Arrangements for her care absolutely had to be made. A review of the finances led to one conclusion: the house would need to be sold to pay for Mom's care. It was not an easy decision. Ethelyn DeMonnin's to age at home hope was well known. She had spoken with her children about it. She had made her wishes plain. While the house was Mom's, it belonged to all of us, her children and grandchildren alike. No matter what happened in our life, we were welcome through this front door. It was a safe harbor. It was part of our identity. My sister and I talked with Mom and tried to explain the situation. She could barely speak; the aphasia was robbing her of her speech a little more every month. "No!" she cried. "Mommy," we pleaded, "you have to go." When the time came, we packed her suitcase and helped Mom guide her walker down the path. It wasn't necessarily like her to be stoic. She looked ahead, she didn't complain, and she didn't cry. As we closed the front door that day, the world as I had known it for more than 40 years careened out of sight. Once Mom was safely settled in foster care, came the job of sorting, packing, cleaning and selling the house. In the chaos of those summer days, my husband Robert asked if he could photograph the house. I couldn't fathom why he'd be interested in documenting this transition, but I invited him in while we went about Mom's business. What emerged from Robert's work was more than a record of Mom's house. It's a glimpse into a life, a family, and a generation. We can peer into a world now lost. The photos echo with happiness and heartache, laughter, and tears. Under the care of my husband's lens, the turning point in our family's history is with us always. But Robert wasn't satisfied by just taking the photos. For more than two years, he urged me to "write something." I really didn't know what to do or what to say. How do you look at family photographs that are so familiar they don't speak to you? How do you tell the truth and keep secrets. How do you get started? While my mother was alive, I was consumed with my career at AARP, and also being a part-time caregiver, a trinity of children who attended to her needs while managing busy adult lives. I had tried a few times to write captions to the photos, but it was very difficult. The summer after Mom died, Robert was planning an exhibition with another art professor at Lewis & Clark College. While reviewing some ideas for the show, curator Linda Tesner was moved by the images of the home. She said the smaller, front gallery would be a perfect place to display them almost as if the room and the home morphed into one. We immediately loved the idea, but something was missing. Robert once again urged me to "write something" to go along with each photograph. I sat with his work prints. One by one, they evoked memories, memories led to ideas and stories and feelings. They led to observations and tears. They let me see my family in a new way. The photographs with their captions were shown at the Hoffman Gallery on the Lewis and Clark campus in 2011. The show also resulted in a nearly full-page story in the Oregonian [...] and an interview on Oregon Public Broadcasting. The stories and pictures are unique to my family but they also tell the story of a generation of boomers saying goodbye to The Greatest Generation. Caregiving, downsizing, and legacy are part of every family. I was lucky enough to have a husband who knew this was a beautiful way to tell the universal story.

    • Description: Interior of home of Ethelyn DeMonnin
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 35, Folder 6, Item LH1-LH20
      Location: Leaving Home Project

  • Unbound photographs

    • Description: Additional New Mexico Portraits photographs
      Dates: between 1979 and 1980
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 7-9, Item MS202-MS237
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Buildings and close-up textures
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 1, Item MS1-M2
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Buildings and close-up textures
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 30, Folder 1-8, Item MS3-MS99
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Buildings and close-up textures
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 31, Item MS100-MS103
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Buildings and close-up textures
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 32, Item MS104-MS109
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Buildings and close-up textures
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Folder 1
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Buildings and close-up textures
      Dates: between 1975 and 2005
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 35, Folder 1-2
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Early art prints
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Folder 6
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Landscapes, street scenes, and vegetation
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 2, Item MS110-MS116
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Landscapes, street scenes, and vegetation
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 30, Folder 9, Item MS117-MS127
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Landscapes, street scenes, and vegetation
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 32, Item MS128
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Landscapes, street scenes, and vegetation
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Folder 2-3
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Mary Barnard
      Dates: between 1977 and 1987
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 31, Folder MS129
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Mikhail Baryshnikov
      Dates: between 1977 and 1987
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 3, Folder MS130-MS131
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Mildred Schwab
      Dates: between 1977 and 1987
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 4, Folder MS132
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Portraits and cityscapes from Portland and Seattle

      From associated materials: [As Robert Miller narrates] Sometimes incredible compelling photographs emerge from street scenes. The shots feel spontaneous and even mesmerizing. In this shot children innocently playing in a fountain seem to confront an eerie character emerging from the water. It's at once full of the delights of summer, but is there something else? With abstract photography, we can break tried and true rules to explore the freedom to engage the viewer on a deeper level through compelling visuals and experimenting with camera technique. This collection of street scenes are from my years as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, working in Portland and visiting in Seattle.

      Dates: between 1976 and 2006
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 35, Folder 5
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Portland Funtastic Festival

      From associated materials: […] low shutterspeed with a flash.

      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Folder 8
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Portland Waterfront Rose Festival
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Folder 7
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: "Rudy"

      Name derived from associated materials (not written on materials themselves).

      Dates: between 1979 and 1980
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 5, Item MS133-MS140
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Various portraits
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 29, Folder 6, Item MS141-MS150
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Various portraits
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 30, Folder 10-11, Item MS151-MS167
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Various portraits
      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 31, Item MS168-MS174
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Various portraits

      Photographs not originally bound together in a distinct volume by the artist.

      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 32, Item MS175-MS201
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Various portraits

      See also series Portraits of Artists for additional photographs.

      Dates: between 1975 and 2005
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 34, Folder 4-5
      Location: Unbound photographs
    • Description: Various portraits

      Includes photographs of Robert Miller and Etta Blum.

      Dates: between 1975 and 1995
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 35, Folder 3-4
      Location: Unbound photographs

  • Associated materials

    Other Descriptive Information

    Papers, descriptions, and other information in a physical format which accompanied or relates to objects arranged in this collection.

    • Description: Portraits of Artists associated materials
      Dates: between 2022 and 2024
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 1
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: New Mexico Portraits associated materials
      Dates: 2022
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 2
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: Portraits at University of Oregon and Lewis and Clark College associated materials
      Dates: 2022
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 3
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: Commercial photography I associated materials
      Dates: 2022
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 4
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: Commercial photography II associated materials
      Dates: 2022
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 5
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: Commercial photography III associated materials
      Dates: 2022
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 6
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: Leaving Home Project associated materials
      Dates: 2024
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 7
      Location: Associated materials
    • Description: Unbound photographs associated materials
      Dates: between 2022 and 2024
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 8
      Location: Associated materials

  • Negatives

    • Description: Acetate negatives

      Restricted.

      317 acetate 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 1
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate negatives

      Restricted.

      300 acetate 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 2
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate negatives

      Restricted.

      307 acetate 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 3
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      300 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 10
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      315 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 12
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      305 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 13
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      295 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 17
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      298 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 18
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      302 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 24
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      256 black-and-white polyester photographic film, 4.5 x 4 in.

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 27
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      756 black-and-white acetate and polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 28
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Acetate and polyester negatives

      Restricted.

      548 black-and-white polyester 61mm photographic negatives

      Container: Box PH1644 Box 33, Folder 12-23
      Location: Negatives
    • Description: Leaving Home Project associated materials
      Dates: 2024
      Container: Box PH1644 Box 36, Folder 7
      Location: Negatives

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