Collection number: PH297
Extent:12 linear ft. (14 containers)
Dan Powell (1950-) is a widely exhibited fine art photographer and head of the photography department at the University of Oregon. The collection is a comprehensive representation of Powell's wide-ranging life work, including constructed imagery done in the studio as well as social landscape and physical landscape imagery ranging from such diverse areas as Eastern Oregon and the Western United States to New York City and various European Countries. Typically, his work is interpretive and expressive in nature. Personal website: danpowellphoto.com
Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Dan Powell photographs, PH297-[series]_[item number], Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299.
Images shown: The image shown above is "Chart of Brief Forms #11," 1992, a sepia-toned photographic collage of woodcut prints and plant materials from the Chart of Brief Forms series, Dan Powell photograph collection, PH297_CB_11, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299. Central image is a portrait of Powell. Third image is "Frenchman Coulee near George, Washington," 1987, a selenium toned, 8x10 contact print on 11x14 graded paper from the Western Landscape series, PH297_WL_09. All rights are reserved.
Dan Powell was born in 1950 in Richland, Washington and grew up in Central Washington. Powell holds an MA in art/photography from Central Washington University, and an MFA in art/photography from University of Illinois. He began teaching at University of Northern Iowa in 1980 and joined the faculty in the School of Architecture & Allied Arts at the University of Oregon in 1987. He is now an professor emeritus and former head of the photography area in the art department. Powell's work has been widely exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally since 1977 and has won prestigious national awards such as a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1980. Powell has worked extensively with studio constructed imagery as well as photographing the Western United States and sites in the Mediterranean. His work is in the permanent collections of the Polaroid Corporation, the Portland Art Museum, the Houston Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago and numerous other public, private and corporate collections.
The collection primarily consists of large format prints, arranged by series and by size. In some cases the prints may have been produced some years after the source negative was captured. Additional images are received semi-annually in approximate chronological order.
Publication rights: Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish images must be submitted to the Photographs Curator of Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Access restrictions: None.
Provenance: The bulk of the collection is a series of gifts of the artist beginning in 2007. Substantial portions of the Western Landscape series were purchased beginning in 2005.
Processed by: Normandy S. Helmer
Date Completed: October 2008