Utah Museum of Contemporary Art photograph collection
Scope and Contents
Contains fourteen photographs from various local photographers of Utah that were featured in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Some of the photographs are framed, and most are photos of landscape or scenery. Dated approximately 1961 to 1993.
Dates
- approximately 1961-1993
Creator
- Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (curator of an exhibition, Organization)
- Plyler, Michael, 1955- (photographer, Person)
- Telford, John William, 1944-2019 (photographer, Person)
- Marotta, Joe (Joseph) (photographer, Person)
- Richards, Barbara Jean, 1941- (photographer, Person)
- Newbold, Rodger (photographer, Person)
- Baddley, David (photographer, Person)
- Burton, Richard, 1940?- (photographer, Person)
- Wiese, Charles T. (photographer, Person)
- Miller, Kent, 1940?- (photographer, Person)
- Kirtland, Maria R. (photographer, Person)
- Jarman, Max (photographer, Person)
- Kirkland, Ray (approximately 1940) (photographer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art photograph collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Coordinating Committee.
Biographical / Historical
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (1931-) is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) started as the Art Barn in 1931 when Alta Rawlins Jensen co-founded the Art Barn Association and served as its first president. In 1932, the Art Barn was located near the University of Utah campus, where volunteers managed art classes and exhibited artwork. The Art Barn became the Salt Lake Art Center (SLAC) in 1958, and in 1961, James Haseltine was hired as the first paid full-time director. Haseltine instituted a greater emphasis on Abstract Expressionism, architecture, and sculpture in the Salt Lake Art Center. In 2011, the Salt Lake Art Center was renamed to the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, refocusing on contemporary art and making it accessible to a diverse audience.
Biographical / Historical
Michael Plyler (1955-) is a self-taught photographer from Utah.
Michael Plyler is a long-time resident of Utah, and has his own photography studio, Michael Plyler Photography. He has been displaying his work since 1982. His most famous works include a series about Guatemala and another of Zion National Park. In 2013, fifty-six pieces of his work from Guatemala were housed in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Plyler is currently the director of the Zion Canyon Field Institute.
Biographical / Historical
John Telford (1944-) is a Utah outdoor photographer.
John Telford was born December 31, 1944. Although essentially self-taught, he received an MFA from the University of Utah, where he was the supervisor of photography at Educational Media Services. He is a Professor Emeritus of Brigham Young University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Visual Arts. He also taught at Westminster College, the Salt Lake Art Center, and Hill Air Force Base. Previously he won the prestigious Karl G. Maeser Award for Creative Excellence at BYU and has won numerous other awards and honors throughout the country. His photographs have been published extensively and exhibited both nationally and internationally. He has authored and co-authored seventeen books.
Biographical / Historical
Joe Marotta (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer, and was a professor of photography at the University of Utah.
Joe Marotta's interest in photography began in his third year of college at the State University of New York in Albany in the 1960s. In 1978, he began teaching photography at the University of Utah where he served as the chair of the photography department from 1988 until 1993. Marotta's work has been shown nationally and internationally. His work is featured in Photographers of the West and Black and White Photography: An International Collection. He retired from teaching at the University of Utah in May 2018.
Biographical / Historical
Barbara Richards (1941-) is a local Utah Photographer.
Barbara's first teaching assignment was in the School of Journalism at the Utah of University. She later taught photography at the Graduate School of Architecture for 25 years. Richards taught the first televised course in 1988, and was also a Purchase Award winner at the 'Utah Photography '88' exhibit. She is currently retired.
Biographical / Historical
Rodger Newbold (approximately 1940) is a local Salt Lake City photographer.
Since 1980, Rodger Newbold has been an educator at the Salt Lake Art Center (now known as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art). In 1984, he became the director of photography for the Art Center. He was named Educator of the Year in 1997. He is the author of "62 Laps Around the Sun."
Biographical / Historical
David Baddley (born appoximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.
Baddley received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Utah, and he now works as an associate professor of Art at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has had many exhibits since 1985.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Burton (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.
Burton studied photography in Los Angeles from 1968 to 1969. He is inspired by nature in his photography. In 1989, Burton had an exhibit about the U.S. Highway 89 at the Salt Lake Art Center (now known as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art).
Biographical / Historical
Charles Wiese (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah artist.
Charles' art was shown at the Utah '88 Photography exhibit in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1988.
Biographical / Historical
Kent Miller (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah artist.
Biographical / Historical
Maria R. Kirtland (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah artist.
Biographical / Historical
Max Jarman (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.
Biographical / Historical
Ray Kirkland (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.
Extent
3 oversize boxes (2.25 linear ft.)
3 oversize folders (0.3 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Purchased by Tom Wells, curator of the Photographic Archives in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University, on May 22, 2017.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased; Tom Wells; May 2017.
Appraisal
Photographic Archives; II, B, 4; February 2020.
Processing Information
Processed; Paulee Fogleman, student manuscript processor; 2019.
Processed; Meghan Hoesch, student manuscript processor, and Tom Wells, curator; 2020.
- Title
- Register of Utah Museum of Contemporary Art photograph collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Paulee Fogleman, student manuscript processor
- Date
- 2019 September 19
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States