Bodleian Libraries Welcomes Archive of American Portrait Photographer Bern Schwartz; Appoints Curator of Photography

Oct 5

David Hockney contact sheet. Bodleian Libraries. Gift of The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation, 2021 © The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation.

APAA member Dr. Anne Varick Lauder, Foundation Senior Advisor, The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation, is thrilled to announce that the collection and archive belonging to her long-time client has a new home: the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, where a curator of photography will be appointed for the first time in the Bodleian’s history. Dr. Lauder is honored to have played a part in ensuring the legacy of the Bern Schwartz archive; a visual Who’s Who of some of the most iconic faces of 1970s Britain, from former Prime Ministers Edward Heath and Harold Wilson to historians Kenneth Clark and Isaiah Berlin, luminaries whose archives are also housed in the Bodleian.