Miguel A. Gandert Photograph Collection

Collection consists of black-and-white photographs by Miguel Gandert. Photographic series include the 1988 Amador Flores occupation in Tierra Amarilla, NM, with portraits of Reyes Lopez Tijerina, Pedro Archuleta, and Rafael Flores; an NEH grant-funded series on the traditional farming communities near San Luis, Colorado and Taylor Ranch protest (1996-97); the Varrio [Barrio] San Jose project in Albuquerque, NM (1982-86). Miscellaneous subjects include "Hands Across America" event (1986), views of Albuquerque, a Penitente morade near Pecos, NM, Indo-Hispanic dances (from the Nuevo Mexico Profundo series), Albuquerque boxers from the exhibit "Two Corners of a Ring" (1977-78), New Mexico State Fair, prison scenes, a Mothers' Day Protest in Honduras (1983), and scenes made in Albuquerque's Martineztown neighborhood (1992). Subjects represented include Hispanic American portraits and traditions, land grants and land tenure issues, agriculture, Chicano portraits and lifestyles, City of Albuquerque, boxing, prisons, the Hermanos Penitentes religious brotherhood, Indo-Hispanic dances, and political protests.

Unprocessed material includes pre-publication proof book and exhibit binder from 1990s, and 1980 video footage on the February 1980 State penitentiary riots.