Call Number:

PH-02771

Collection Name:

Norman Mailer Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

25 items

Span Dates:

1962-1967

Description:

The collection consists of photographs from the papers of author and filmmaker Norman Mailer (American, 1923-2007). Included are eight contact sheets and one enlargement from a portrait sitting with photographer Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971) commissioned by the New York Times Book Review in 1963, as well as a contact print of Arbus’s photograph Waitress, Nudist Camp, N.J., 1963. Printed in 1967 on the occasion of the Museum of Modern Art exhibition New Documents, the print verso is inscribed in the artist’s hand, “Dear N. + B., There is a show at the Museum of Modern Art; a third of it is my photographs. I would especially like you to see it……Diane.” Also included are fifteen contact sheets from a portrait sitting with photographer Richard Avedon (American, 1923-2004) at Mailer’s home in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962.

See finding aid for more detailed information.

This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Access Restrictions:

Special permission from the Curator of Photography, plus advance notice, is required to access this collection until it is archivally housed. To make an appointment, please contact Reading and Viewing Room staff.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01236

See Also:

Richard Avedon Photography Collection: Additional prints by Avedon can be found in the Richard Avedon Photography Collection (PH-00460).

Norman Mailer Papers: The archive from which this collection was transferred is the Normal Mailer Papers (MS-02643).

Diane Arbus Photography Collection: An additional print by Arbus can be found in the Diane Arbus Photography Collection (PH-02814).

Carson McCullers Literary File Photography Collection: An additional print by Avedon (957:0037:0001) can be found in the Carson McCullers Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02678).