Los Angeles Documentary Project Photograph Collection: Finding Aid photCL 642
Suzanne Oatey
The Huntington Library
May 2022
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Los Angeles Documentary Project photograph collection
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 642
Physical Description:
1.7 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1979-1981
Abstract: Photographs and promotional material
from the Los Angeles Documentary Project, a photographic survey of Los Angeles, 1979 to
1981.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Los Angeles Documentary Project photograph collection, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Alan Jutzi, 2015.
A collection of 21 photographs and three promotional publications from the Los Angeles
Documentary Project, a photographic survey of the city of Los Angeles in celebration of its
bicentennial in 1981. Alan Jutzi and John Humble created the project for the Photography
Museum, with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts. The original
project comprised 120 prints by eight photographers; these 21 prints are a sampling from the
project and represent the work of six photographers: Joe Deal (1 print); Robbert Flick (6
prints, each containing a series of images); Douglas Hill (1 print); John Humble (2 prints);
Bill Owens (9 prints, including self-portraits); and Susan Ressler (2 prints). Robbert
Flick's photographs depict scenes in Marina del Rey, Venice Beach, Manhattan Beach, Los
Angeles International Airport, and Centinela Park. The collection contains color photographs
(some Cibachrome) and black-and-white photographs, and most are signed by the photographers.
Works for the project were exhibited in Los Angeles at Mount Saint Mary's University, the
Watts Towers Arts Center, and the San Pedro Art Gallery.
Processed by Suzanne Oatey in May 2022.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
RESTRICTED: Box housed in cold storage for preservation of color photographs; extended
retrieval and delivery time required.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art photography
Photographs
Color photographs
Dwellings — California — Los Angeles — Photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Photographs
Mobile homes -- Photographs
Deal, Joe, 1947-2010
Flick, Robbert
Hill, Douglas (1950-)
Humble, John
(John Kenneth), 1944-
Owens, Bill
Ressler, Susan, 1949-
Photography Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box 1
Los Angeles Documentary Project photograph collection