Sheila Pree Bright papers

Author/Creator:

Bright, Sheila Pree

Publication/Creation:

1998-2006

Format:

Archival Material or Manuscripts

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Sheila Pree Bright papers

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

digital photographs

Subjects:

Bright, Sheila Pree
African American artists--21st century
African American photographers
African American women artists--21st century
Atlanta (Ga.)

Description/Summary

Finding Aid:

Finding aid available electronically

Summary:

Images from the series <title>Plastic Bodies</title> and <title>Surburbia</title> including negatives, zines, born digital files, research files, books, and Bright's master's thesis.

Language:

English

Language Note:

Materials in English.

Physical Type/Description:

1.67 (4 boxes)

Restrictions on Access:

Special restrictions apply: Collection stored off-site; materials must be requested two business days in advance of appointment.
Special restrictions apply: Researchers must contact the Rose Library in advance for access to unprocessed born digital materials in this collection.

Organization and Arrangement:

arranged alphabetically by title.

Biographical/Historical Note:

Sheila Pree Bright (1967-) was born in Waycross, Georgia, to a military family and spent her formative years in Germany. She later moved back to the United States, settling in Atlanta after the 1996 Summer Olympics. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri (Columbia) in 1998 and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Georgia State University (Atlanta) in 2003. She is an award-winning photographic artist, lecturer, documentary filmmaker, muralist, and author. Her photographs have been exhibited and are represented in the collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the High Museum of Art and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia; the Saatchi Gallery (London, United Kingdom); Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, Massachusetts); the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, Illinois); and the International Center of Photography (New York, New York).

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9938109588902486

OCLC Number:

1514302246

Barcode:

010003192768
010003192769
010003192770
010003192767