Art and photography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Harold E. Edgerton papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0025
Abstract
Research materials, laboratory notebooks, correspondence, autobiographical materials, audio and video recordings of Harold E. Edgerton, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1928 to 1966, Institute Professor from 1966 to 1968, and Institute Professor Emeritus from 1968 to 1990. Edgerton perfected the stroboscope and developed photographic techniques that allowed very rapid events to be observed and captured on film. He also developed techniques...
Dates:
1889 - 1999
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Art Committee records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0066
Abstract
The collection of the Art Committee covers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) covers the period 1960-1973. Materials document committee work and development of programs for the arts at MIT. The records were kept by Catherine N. Stratton (wife of MIT president Julius Stratton), a founder and active member of the Art Committee, and its successor organization, the MIT Council for the Arts. The collection contains correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, news releases,...
Dates:
1960 - 1973
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0664
Abstract
The Center for Advanced Visual Studies special collection is the repository of a 42 year history of collaborative and time-based productions generated by or related to the tenure of over 200 internationally recognized artist-fellows. The materials include moving images in various time based media, posters and artists’ prints, photographs, and over 130 feet of documents including artists’ notes, sketches, and correspondence. Materials concern the processes and productions of artists including...
Dates:
1962 - 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Committee on the Visual Arts records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0048
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Records received in 1980, boxes 1-2, 1978-1980, contain videotapes and audio tapes of interviews done in preparation for exhibits in the Compton Gallery. Also included are composite tapes used as part of the exhibit of Gyorgy Kepes’s work and an exhibit on Building 20, taped interviews and correspondence concerning background research for exhibits, videotapes of lectures that accompanied the exhibit on Gjon Mili, and registers of visitors to the Compton Gallery.Records received...
Dates:
1945 - 1980