George Hoyningen-Huene papers

The first series , Albums and Scrapbooks, has been arranged into two sub-series: Albums and Scrapbooks. Albums includes the contents of several disbound albums of prints organized by Hoyningen-Huene by location and date. Each print is identified by its subject, with a detailed caption in the scope and content note describing further details, including fashion designer, date information for the photograph as well as identification of tearsheet and publication when available. Scrapbooks are volumes Hoyningen-Huene organized by year of tearsheets from the publications in which his photographs appeared.

The second series, Prints, includes multiple sub-series: Fashion, theater, and film prints; travel prints; prints matted for “The Look: Images of Glamour and Style,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Personal and family prints; Art Center prints; Contact prints; as well as two sub-series of copies of Hoyningen-Huene’s images, one by Horst P. Horst and the other by Scott Hyde and others. The fashion, theater, and film prints include portraits of many celebrities, models, members of European and American aristocracy, and more, often wearing couture designs. A few stills from ballets, films, and theatrical productions are also included, as are a few images of objects and interior designs. Most of these prints were created during Hoyningen-Huene’s time photographing for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Travel prints include images from Hoyningen-Huene’s travels to to Africa (specifically Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the sub-Saharan region), as well as Greece, Spain, Mexico, and Thailand, some taking photographs for Vogue, for his own published books, and also while living in different locations. Prints matted for “The Look: Images of Glamour and Style,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston includes a selection of prints selected for the aforementioned exhibition in 2001-2002, including some removed from albums. These prints include celebrity and fashion photographs, travel photographs, self-portraits, and more. Personal and family prints include images of Hoyningen-Huene, his family members, as well as a series of self-portraits doing Pilates that includes a health card for Hoyningen-Huene himself. Art Center prints includes prints from his time at the Art Center School of Los Angeles, mainly stills and portraits related to theatrical productions. Contact prints includes groups of prints across the range of subjects for which Hoyningen-Huene was known, including celebrity and travel images. The two sub-series of copies include images Horst P. Horst, Scott Hyde, and perhaps others took using Hoyningen-Huene’s negatives. Most of these images can be found within other sub-series. It is also possible that some copies may be found throughout the other sub-series, but all those identified during processing were moved to these sub-series.

The third series, Negatives, includes travel negatives organized by location as well as other negatives from Hoyningen-Huene’s celebrity and fashion photography. There are also unidentified negatives. Collages and drawings includes photo collages as well as drawings that Hoyningen-Huene created, including drawings for publications and greeting cards, and collages entitled "Stills - Pacific Pix," which involve Renaissance-era portraits. The final series, Publications and ephemera, includes two Art Center School publications of Hoyningen-Huene’s photographs of theatrical productions, as well as an unidentified tearsheet, and a group of four publications from 1989-1990 that include photographs taken by Hoyningen-Huene.