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Call Number:

PH-02665

Collection Name:

Guy Davenport Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Davenport, Guy (1927-11-23 - 2005-01-04)

Meatyard, Christopher (1955 - )

Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)

Mendes, Guy (1948 - )

Midgette, Willard F., 1937- (1937-07-09 - 1978-04-21)

No. of Items:

46 items

Span Dates:

1959-1977

Description:

The collection consists of 46 gelatin silver prints taken between 1959 and 1972, including 38 by Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925-1972). Many of the photographs are portraits of Guy Davenport and other literary notables, but also included are photographs Meatyard self-described as “Romances."

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Accession No(s):

2014:0009:0001-0046; Internal transfer from the Guy Davenport Papers (MS-04979), 2014.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01219

Location(s):

Davenport, Guy, Box 1-6
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Cranston Ritchie]
Date 1958-59; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037379
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1959; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037380
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1964, printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037381
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1959; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037382
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Romance (N.) from Ambrose Bierce #3
Date 1962; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037383
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Occasion for Diriment
Date 1962
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037384
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1959
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037385
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1959
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037386
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1960
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037387
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037388
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037389
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1961; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037390
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date 1961; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037391
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Lucybelle Crater and her 15-year-old son's friend, Lucybelle Crater
Date ca. 1970; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037392
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled
Date Ca. 1959
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037393
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title Untitled, from the series Motion-Sound
Date 1969; printed 1974
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037394
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Guy Davenport]
Date 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037396
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Louis Zukovsky]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037397
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Louis Zukovsky]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037398
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Celia Zukovsky]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037399
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Celia Zukovsky]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037400
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Hugh Kenner] 1 of 6 proof prints
Date 1968
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037401
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Hugh Kenner] 2 of 6 proof prints
Date 1968
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037402
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Hugh Kenner] 3 of 6 proof prints
Date 1968
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037403
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Hugh Kenner] 4 of 6 proof prints
Date 1968
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037404
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Hugh Kenner] 5 of 6 proof prints
Date 1968
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037405
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Hugh Kenner] 6 of 6 proof prints
Date 1968
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037406
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Thomas Merton]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037408
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Guy Davenport]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037409
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, and Thomas Merton]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037410
Artist/Maker Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 (1925 - 1972)
Title [Wendell Berry]
Date 1967
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 5037411

See Also:

Edward Dahlberg Literary File Photography Collection: Item 985:0009:0003 in the Edward Dahlberg Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02655)

Ralph Eugene Meatyard Photography Collection: Ralph Eugene Meatyard Photography Collection (PH-02566)

Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard (PH-02648)

Parker Tyler Literary File Photography Collection: Item 975:0090:0003 in the Parker Tyler Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02656)

Father Louie: Photographs of Thomas Merton

Guy Davenport Art Collection

Guy Davenport Papers