Sam Adams photograph collection, 1957-2012

Content Description

Archive of Sam Adams: the entire body of work created by Sam Adams, photographs and negatives, dating from 1957 to 2012. Born in Chicago in 1927, Sam Adams is a retired motion picture and television literary agent, and though he began making photographs at the age of nine, he has never been a professional photographer. After a brief service in the army in World War II he attended the Art Center School of Photography on Los Angeles but was expelled before the end of the first year. As a copy boy on the Los Angeles Examiner in the late 1940s he was apprenticed to the photo department and before entering the agency business spent two years as a radio news editor and a motion picture trade paper reporter. Upon retiring in 1989 he turned his full attention to photography making pictures only on film in black and white. Adams is the recipient of the New Mexico Council of Photography's Eliot Porter Award and he is represented in the photography collections of the University of New Mexico and the University of Oklahoma, as well as the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Sam Adams estate. Donor credit line: From the estate of Sam Adams.

Restrictions Apply

No

Use Restrictions

Use of images may be restricted. Non-exclusive copyright assignment can be found in accession records. Limited terms of use noted in gift agreement in accession records. All images may be reproduced in black and white only. Images used on the Internet must be protected from download.