Herb A. Lotz Photographic Collection

Content Description

16 boxes of negatives (see database for details) (PAC 058). This collection includes negatives, prints, books, and paper ephemera documenting military service in Vietnam and New Mexico ca. 1968-2010. Photographer Herbert Lotz served with the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War, and ever since endured a life under siege. Though often haunted -- sometimes disabled -- by horrifying memories, he has earned a luminous reputation in Santa Fe because of his community service on several fronts. A photographer, defender of gay/lesbian rights, rodeo enthusiast, and volunteer working for a state veterans' museum, Lotz was named 10 Who Made a Difference in Santa Fe in 2011. An aficionado of the camera since he was a teenager, Lotz was in his third year off college when he was drafted. After training at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, he was sent to Vietnam serving as a teletype operator in the US Army. After moving to Santa Fe in 1970 Lotz pursued a successful commercial photography career taking portraits of the people and places of his new hometown. Over the course of his career he photographed many people in the Santa Fe scene. His portraits are a virtual Who's Who of Santa Fe personalities during the 1970s to 1990s as are his images of streets, buildings and events that document a time and place in the early years of the Santa Fe scene. His photography, in recent years, has been specialized toward books and art catalogs. In 2008 Lotz donated his negatives and prints to the Palace of the Governors Photo Legacy project where he plans to survey the photographic artifacts of a creative life with an eye to publishing a few books.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Herb Lotz Collection

Restrictions Apply

No