Joseph M. Singer Collection
Scope and Contents
The contents of the collection are a small selection of the artist's prints and photographs.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1980 - 2015
Biographical / Historical
Joseph M. Singer (1918-2010) was born in Pittsburgh and earned chemistry and chemical engineering degrees at the University of Pittsburgh. He made a career with the U.S. Bureau of Mines and moved to Hawaii in the early 1980s when he retired.
In his undergraduate days, he also studied drawing and photography, with some of his work shown in exhibitions. He rekindled his interest in art at the University of Hawaii when he studied printmaking, photoetching and photogravure, the latter under noted printmaker Dodie Warren.
He produced over 600 intaglio prints, photographs and other works of art and also became well known as an art historian. He was especially appreciated by Native Hawaiians for his unique photographic record of Oahu’s heiau with co-photographer Jan Becket. Sixty of these photos were published in 1999 by the University of Hawaii Press in Pana Oahu: Sacred Stones, Sacred Land.
Singer’s prints centered on Hawaiian history as well as images of the Holocaust as part of his Jewish ancestry. In 2002 he was selected by the Honolulu Printmakers as the gift print artist for their annual exhibition. His print was the first photogravure offered as the gift print.
Extent
3.5 Linear Feet (Photographs and one flat print portfolio 16 silver process prints, 8x10 1 RC print, 8x10 2 etchings 2 prints of unknown medium 2 prints of unknown medium ) : (1) 21" x 17" x 1-3/4" box (1) 31 x 23-1/2" folio
Language
English
Occupation
- Title
- Joseph Singer Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries Repository