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CNA building, Los Angeles, Calif., 1971
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CNA building, Los Angeles, Calif., 1971
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Description
Exterior photograph of the CNA building, headquarters of CNA Financial, 600 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 1971 November.
Asset Metadata
Title
CNA building, Los Angeles, Calif., 1971
Subject
Commercial project, Office building, High-rise
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
600 South Commonwealth Avenue
(roadway),
California
(states),
CNA Financial
(geographic subject),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1971-11
Type
images
Format
1 photograph: color
(format),
image/tiff
(imt),
photographs
(aat)
Source
Thom: Commercial Projects
(subcollection),
University of Southern California
(contributing entity),
Wayne Thom Photography Collection
(collection)
Date Created
1971-11
Creator
Thom, Wayne, 1933-
(photographer)
Contributor
Langdon Wilson Architecture
(client),
Thom, Wayne, 1933- , donor
(provenance)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
For uses other than private, please contact the © USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu .
Access Conditions
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/thom-c41-527
Identifier
thom-7111-0512-35.tif (
filename
), 7111-0512-35 (
identifying number
), thom-c41-527 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
527
Unique identifier
UC1949610
Legacy Identifier
thom-7111-0512-35.tif
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
7.1 in × 8.9 in at 300dpi
18.1 cm × 22.8 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Thom: Commercial Projects
Description
The archive of Wayne Thom, a renowned architectural photographer who shot only with natural light, worked without assistant and meticulously printed his own images," came to the University of Southern California Libraries in September 2015.
"Thom’s stunning photographs of landmark buildings throughout the American West and Asia... include many buildings on the USC campus, including images of von KleinSmid Center, the 1968 USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism building, Heritage Hall, Varian Hall and others."
The collection dates from the 1960s through 2012 and in addition to his photographs include his extensive graphic design work such as architectural brochures for clients.
"Thom, who was born in Shanghai, raised in Hong Kong and migrated to Vancouver before coming to California to study at Brooks, has photographed across the Pacific Rim, as well as throughout the Western United States. He uses a 4×5 Sinar view camera, a distinctive Swiss brand favored by architectural photographers and professionals doing advertising product work. Thom stuck with film until 2003, when he felt that the quality of digital cameras had improved enough for his exacting standards."
The Wayne Thom Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library comes initially from the images Thom shot digitally or digitized himself. He provided access to many of these on his Website (https://waynethom.com/). Additional images were digitized by the USC Digital Library from his analog photographs.
All quotations are from Allison Engel. "Architectural photographer Wayne Thom's beautiful images head to USC Libraries" in USCNews (2015 August 31). -- https://news.usc.edu/85649/photographer-wayne-thoms-archive-heads-to-usc-libraries/ (last visited: 2015-11-19).
Relation References
https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2387
(finding aid URL)
Linked assets
Thom: Commercial Projects
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