Southern Exposure photographs

MS 591

Collection area: Arizona and Southwest

Collection dates: circa 1970-1987

About this collection

This collection contains 35 8x10 color and black and white prints created in the 1970’s and 1980’s throughout the United States by four photographers.

The first series contains four 8x10 black and white images by Mauro Altamura taken in New York City and New Jersey in the 1970’s. Subjects include street photography and urban scenes.

The second series contains 11 8x10 black and white images by Jerome Friar taken in Washington, D.C. in the 1980’s. Subjects include Lt. Col. Oliver North’s Congressional Committee hearing in 1987, an AIDS Walk and an exhibition against animal cruelty.

The third series contains nine 8x10 black and white master prints by Kathleen Hogan taken primary across the southwestern United States and Mexico in the 1970’s. Subjects include landscape imagery and both posed and candid portraiture.

The fourth series contains 10 8x10 mostly color images taken predominantly in New York City in part with Piperno’s exhibition “To Have and to Hold.” Subjects including tango dancers and three black white images of various people from an unknown location.

Historical background

Southern Exposure was a photography agency that never came to fruition founded by Vijaya Allan in Raleigh, North Carolina in the late 1980’s.

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