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Frank Hoy Photograph Collection 1979-1995

CP SPC 324

Biographical Note

Frank Hoy (1935-2001) taught Photojournalism and Visual Communication at ASU for 22 years and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1999. Hoy began his photojournalism career at the Washington Post, where he worked for 17 years and earned several awards, including the prestigious "The Hague Holland World Press Photo Award". Hoy came to Arizona State University in 1978 after working at Syracuse University for five years. Here, he developed the Visual Journalism curriculum for the Walter Cronkite School of Photojournalism and converted a black and white photographic laboratory into a digital facility. He also developed Documentary Photo Workshops designed to teach underprivileged children about photo documentation. This program resulted in "Snapshots", which was exhibited at Archives and Special Collections. He also authored Photojournalism: The Visual Approach.

Scope and Content Note

The Frank Hoy Photograph Collection contains images documenting Arizona that Hoy took between 1979 and 1995. Image formats include slides, prints, negatives, and digital. The collection has been organized in seventeen series arranged by theme and format.

Series I: Cities houses 35mm color slides depicting street scenes, businesses, buildings, and landscapes in numerous Arizona cities, including Alpine, Ajo, Ashfork, Benson, Bisbee, Chandler, Camp Verde, Casa Grande, Claypool, Cave Creek, Thatcher, Coolidge, Clifton, Douglas, Duncan, Flagstaff, Morristown, Florence, Mayer, Oatman, Globe, Gilbert, Gila Bend, Guadalupe, Goldfield, Holbrook, Kingman, Lake Havasu, Morenci, Miami, Nogales, Hoover Dam, Mohave County, Payson, Prescott, Pima, Patagonia, Phoenix, Safford, Scottsdale, Show Low, Snowflake, Taylor, Tempe, Wickenburg, Wilcox, Williams, Young, Yuma, Hayden, Month, Canyon De Chelly, Oracle, Concho, Seligman, Cottonwood, Sonoita, Strawberry, St. Johns, Tumacacori, Tombstone, Winslow, Benson, Bagdad, Coolidge, Hillside, Hannigan Meadow, Page, Fort Collins, McNary, Lake Powell, Springerville, Holbrook, Sierra Vista, Tortilla Flat, Wikieup, Quartzite, Winkleman, Miami, Pima, and Mesa.

Series II: Events houses 35mm color slides showing such events as the Coolidge Days parade, Arizona Days, 75th Anniversary, Phoenix parade, 4H, Alpine rummage sale, and other unidentified events.

Series III: Signs and Symbols houses 35mm color slides showing signs and symbols around Arizona that Hoy selected for exhibit purposes.

Series IV: Land and Landscapes houses 35mm color slides that Hoy selected for exhibit purposes.

Series V: Downtown houses 35mm color slides showing the downtown areas of Bisbee, Casa Grande, Clifton, Coolidge, Florence, Prescott, St. Johns, Tempe, Tucson, Ajo, Camp Verde, Holbrook, Hyde, Kingman, Phoenix, Wilcox, Winslow, and other Arizona cities.

Series VI: People houses 35mm color slides showing local people in Prescott, Winslow, Safford, St. John, Wilcox, Wickenburg, Springerville, and other Arizona cities.

Series VII: Night houses 35mm color slides showing the Tempe Fair, Wickenburg, Safford, Florence, Springerville, Wilcox, and other Arizona cities.

Series VIII: Slides to be Digitized houses 35mm color slides selected for digitization for exhibit purposes from the Night, People and Downtown Series. The majority date from the late 1980s.

Series IX: Personal houses 35mm color slides taken at a computer/photographic conference. Also included are images of flowers, pets, vacations, and still life.

Series X: City Council Members houses photographs of City Council Members in Bisbee, Benson, Safford, Prescott, Yuma, Wickenburg, Clifton, Nogales, Springerville, Florence, St. Johns, Snowflake, and Coolidge. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XI: Cities houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints, contact sheets, and 8" x 10" black and white prints showing Pueblo Grande, Globe, Guadalupe, Holbrook, Mesa, Gilbert, Phoenix, Clifton, Miami, Florence, Flagstaff, Eloy, Coolidge, Bisbee, Ashfork, Prescott, Douglas, Thatcher, Williams, Yuma, Rio Salado, Tempe, Quartzite, Tucson, Tubac, Superior, Showlow, Safford, and Roosevelt. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XII: Events houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints and a black and white contact sheet showing the Tempe Fair, the Florence Rodeo, the Florence Home Tour, a performance of Bye-Bye Birdie in Tempe, Juneteenth, Phoenix, 75 year Statehood, Phoenix, Mesa PowWow, and a children's classroom event. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XIII: Photo Essays houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints and 8" x 10" black and white contact sheets showing the Old West Highway, the Tl Cam professional organization, Alpine Graduation, Guadalupe Cemetery, Tory Walker, a 7 year old boxer, Wedding Chapel, Phoenix, and Square Dancing. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XIV: Children's Workshop houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints taken by children from the San Carlos Reservation, the Apache White River Reservation, Kid's Place, Phoenix, and Guadalupe, Arizona during a Walter Cronkite School Documentary Photo Workshop organized by Frank Hoy. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XV: Printed Images contains color photographs, black and white photographs, laser prints, and digital images (primarily scanned from 35mm slides, negatives, or photographs). Laser prints of images in the People series taken in Coolidge, Alpine, Powell, Florence, Yuma, Safford, and Tempe were printed by Frank Hoy.

Series XVI: Exhibit Photographs houses images used in displays that Archives and Special Collections created as part of their donor agreement with Hoy. Included are photographs from "Snapshots: Children Documenting their Neighborhoods" (which consists mostly of 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" photographs taken by children from Guadalupe, the White River Apache Reservation, the San Carlos Apache Reservation, and Kid's Place as part of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism Children's Workshop that spanned over 4 years), "Downtown Series: Arizona Documentary Series" (which consists of laser color prints and black and white photographs showing landscapes around Arizona), and "Signs and Symbols: Arizona Documentary Series" (which consists of laser color prints and black and white photographs of cities and rural areas around Arizona.

Series XVII: Negatives consists of black and white and color negatives with and without corresponding prints.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of the Arizona State University Library. Requests to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.

Access Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Frank Hoy Photograph Collection, CP SPC 324, Arizona State University Library.

Provenance

Frank Hoy, Associate Professor of Photo Journalism in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, donated these materials to Archives and Special Collections in January 2002 and 2003.

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