Detail View: RIT CARY GRAPHIC DESIGN ARCHIVES COLLECTION: Scrapbook of collected writings by Mehemed F. Agha

Filename: 
cc_csc0103_agha
Identifier: 
cc_csc0103_agha
Title: 
Scrapbook of collected writings by Mehemed F. Agha
Creator: 
Morrow, Joyce
Subject: 
Agha, Mehemed Fehmy
Subject: 
Photography
Subject: 
Exhibitions
Subject: 
Commercial art
Subject: 
Graphic arts
Subject: 
Magazine design
Subject: 
Editorials
Summary: 
Articles by Dr. M. F. Agha pasted into this scrapbook M.F. Agha, “Foreword,” n.d. “Sanserif, Legerdemain, Avoirdupois,” March 1931 “Preface,” US Camera, 1935 “A Word on European Photography,” n.d. “Exhibition of Photographs By Anton Bruehl,” Delphic Studios, 9 East 57th Street, New York City, March 1931 “Photographs by Three Americans,” John Becker 520 Madison Avenue, New York April 18 to May 8, 1931 “Paul Outerbridge, Jr., Advertising Arts”, May 1931 “Ralph Steiner,” Creative Art, January 1932 “Art and Art Directors,” Advertising Arts, May 1935 “Leave European Art In Europe,” Advertising Arts, January 1932 “What Makes A Magazine “Modern,” Advertising Arts, October 1, 1930 “About Margins And Bleeds," by Dr. M.F. Agha, Art Director, of The Conde Nast Publications. Condensed from an address delivered on January 25 at a meeting on periodical design sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Published in American Printer, March 1935 “The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer,” n.d. “Surrealism or the Purple,” Vogue, November 1, 1936 “Whistlers Hippopotamus: A Japing Dialogue on Photography, New and Old,” Vogue, March 15, 1939 “Graphic Arts in Advertising, Moderns And Modernists,” n.d. “Woman’s Place Is in the Dark Room,” October 15, 1938 “Melies, Father of the Impossible, The Fantastic Story Of A Movie Pioneer Who Now Has A One Man Show in the New Building of The Museum of Modern Art,” n.d. “Some Terrible Painters, Who Actually Invented Photography? A Well Known Art Director traces it Back to an Indiana Town, and Shows How Frustrated Painters were at the Bottom of It All, US Camera, 1939 “The Passing of the Blops, He loved Blops, and Lost Them, in a Paris that Always Took Two Hours for Lunch,” Vogue, September 15, 1940 “Raphaels Without Hands: Ever Since Its Invention, Photography Has Managed to Be the Popular Art Of America,” Vogue, June 15, 1941 “Joseph Platt: The Man Who Gets Tired Easily,” Marshall Fields Fashions of the Hour, October 1941 “That’s My System, How to Arrange Four Lights for Indoor Portraits,” n.d. “Photography Lays An Easy Egg,” Junior Bazaar, June 1947 “National Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art…The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” April 25 to June 1, 1947 “Fashion Photography Today,” n.d. “Horseless Photography,” Harper’s Bazaar, November 1944
Digital Publisher: 
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Contributor: 
Agha, Mehemed Fehmy
Date of Original: 
1930 approximate
Date of Digitization: 
2022
Broad Type: 
still image
Specific Type: 
scrapbooks
Digital File Format: 
jpeg
Physical Format: 
books
Dimensions of Original: 
31.8 cm
Language: 
English
Original Item Location: 
CSC 0103
Library Collection: 
Joyce Morrow collection
Digital Project: 
2022_0037_agha
Catalog Record: 
https://archivesspace.rit.edu/repositories/3/resources/1028
Place: 
New York - New York
Rights: 
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
Notes: 
title supplied by the cataloguer