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Titre
Lawson Corbett Little photography collection
Date(s)
- 1968-2022 (Production)
Importance matérielle
14.76 linear feet (8 record storage cartons, 6 audiovisual archival boxes, 2 archival flat boxes, and 1 document case)
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Born in Chicago in 1945, Lawson Corbett Little, studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and later at the California Institute of the Arts. He moved to Key West in the 1970s and focused his photography on the local social life and culture of Key West while helping to establish the photography program as a teacher at the Florida Keys Community College. He later moved to Nashville, where he regularly photographed country musicians for books and publications, such as the Western Beat Entertainment's newsletter. His photography has also been featured in the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Art Institute. Some of his more famous subjects include Shel Silverstein, Tennessee Williams, the Dixie Chicks, Bootsy Collins, and production photos for films by Roy Rogers and Martin Scorsese.
He passed away on December 25, 2023 in Pensacola, Florida.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
A collection of photographs, negatives, prints, CD-Rs, and external hard-drives full of images taken by photographer, Lawson Corbett Little (1945-2023). Also included are some copies of Western Beat Entertainment newsletter, for which Little regularly provided photographs.
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami. Please contact asc.library@miami.edu to request materials from this collection.
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Lawson Corbett Little Photography collection finding aid © 2024 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from Special Collections.
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
- latin
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Source immédiate d'acquisition
Collection purchased form Sandra Watson, 10-03-24.
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Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
The following for books were added to the Special Collections bibliographic catalog and may be requested at the Kislak Center:
- The Railroaders by Stuart Leuthner with foreword by Oliver Jensen and photographs by Lawson Little, 1983.
- Nashville: A Photographic Documentary of Guitar Town Americana, Alternative Country, and Roots Music Artists, Photographs by Lawson, Little, 2013.
- Texas Highway US Route 90 Lawson Corbett Little Photography, 2017.
- Nashville: Americana Music in Guitar Town: A Photographic Documentary of the Nashville Singers, Songwriters, and Musicians, Photographs by Lawson Little, 2017.
- Nan Goldin 1973 Lawson Corbett Little Photography, 2017.
- Exotic T-Girls 1968-1973, Photographs by Lawson Corbett Little, 2017.
- Time Frames from a Texas Highway Lawson Corbett Little Photography, 2018.
- Cayo Hueso Lawson Little Photography, 2021.
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Note de l'archiviste
Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 11-15-24.