http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gq74cb No online items Elisa Leonelli Photographs and Essays Collection Finding aid prepared by Alan Schooling and Myles Mikulic Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library 800 North Dartmouth Ave Claremont 91711 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.claremont.edu/scl © 2018 Claremont University Consortium. All rights reserved. Elisa Leonelli Photographs and H.Mss.1102 1 Essays Collection Descriptive Summary Title: Elisa Leonelli Photographs and Essays Dates: 1973-2017 Collection number: H.Mss.1102 Creator: Leonelli, Elisa Extent: 10 Linear Feet(10 record boxes) Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont, CA 91711 Abstract: The collection contains 35mm photographic travel slides and international fashion magazine clippings by photo-journalist Elisa Leonelli. The slides cover a wide range of subjects and geographic locations, including extensive coverage of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics. The fashion magazines are from a variety of countries, predominantly Italy, and include celebrity photographs and interviews. Please consult repository. Language of Material: English Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Conditions Governing Access Collection open for research. Conditions Governing Use All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Elisa Leonelli Collection, (H.Mss.1102). Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont California. Immediate Source of Acquisition Gift of Elisa Leonelli, 2018. Accruals No additions to the collection are anticipated. Processing Information Processed in 2018 by graduate students Alan Schooling and Myles Mikulic at Claremont Graduate University, in the Special Collections branch of the Honnold Mudd Library with assistance from Lisa Crane. Materials have been stored in acid free folders and placed in record boxes. The slides are in their original slide pages and include any supplemental materials. Folders have been organized alphabetically by subject, based on the original slide page titles by Leonelli. Magazine clippings have been arranged alphabetically by publication title, then chronologically. Biographical / Historical Elisa Leonelli was born in Modena, Italy. In 1970 she graduated from the University of Bologna with a BA in Film Aesthetics and became a film critic for the Pesaro Film Festival. During that time she developed an interest in photography and soon after moved to the United States to work on the production of avant-garde television (The Chicken Little Comedy Show, 1972; Beneath the War of the Worlds, 1974). In Los Angeles she began working as a photojournalist; her first assignment was to photograph the 100 best places in Los Angeles for Coast in 1974. She went on to photograph for Time, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Herald Examiner, Los Angeles Magazine, Westways, and others. Between 1981 and 1986 Leonelli specialized in travel photography, visiting such countries as China, Mexico, Japan, Peru, Brazil, India, and Nepal. In 1984 she covered the Los Angeles Olympics and had her work published in the book Olimpiadi 1984. In 1987 Leonelli became the Los Angeles correspondent for the Italian film magazine Ciak, and served as the film editor of Venice Magazine from 1990 to 1999. In 1997 she received an MA in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. In 2007 she wrote the book Robert Redford and the American West. Leonelli has written feature articles about film actors and directors for numerous Italian publications, including Epoca, Elle, Marie Claire, Gioia, Donna Moderna, Glamour, Myself, and the Spanish film magazine Cinemanía. She has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the Italian monthly Best Movie since 2005, editor of the Reynier Village Blog since 2009, and a regular contributor to Cultural Weekly since 2015. Arrangement This collection has been arranged into the following series: Series 1: Slides and supplemental materials, 1973-1999 Series 2: Magazine clippings, 1987-2017 Elisa Leonelli Photographs and H.Mss.1102 2 Essays Collection Materials have been organized alphabetically by subject or periodical title. Related Materials Leonelli maintains a website featuring her photographs and interviews: http://elisaleonelli.com/ Scope and Contents The collection contains materials relating to the career of photojournalist Elisa Leonelli. The majority were created for general interest periodicals, particularly fashion and travel magazines. Items include photographic slides, photographs, photograph negatives, press releases, model release forms, and magazine clippings. Series 1 contains 35mm slides of various subjects and accompanying supplemental materials such as press releases, release forms, and photographic prints. Series 2 contains magazine clippings from various international fashion magazines for which Leonelli had photographed and conducted actor and director interviews. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog. Subject Terms Actors and actresses Disneyland (Calif.) Fashion photography Interviews Models (Persons) Olympic Games (23rd : 1984 : Los Angeles, Calif.) Travel photography Genre and Form of Materials Periodicals Photographs Press releases Slides (Photography) Series: 1 Slides and Supplemental Materials 1973-1999 Box 1, Folder 1 Julian Beck, artist - slides 1977 Box 1, Folder 2 Body Building - slides and supplemental materials 1980 Box 1, Folder 3 Body Building, Franco Columbo - slides and supplmental materials 1978 Box 1, Folder 4 Body Building, Lisa Lyon - slides and supplemental materials 1983 Box 1, Folder 5 Ray Bradbury, writer - slides and supplemental materials 1988-1989 Box 1, Folder 6 Brazil (1 of 2) - slides and supplemental materials 1983 Box 1, Folder 7 Brazil, (2 of 2) - slides 1983 Box 1, Folder 8 Brazil, extra - slides 1983 Box 1, Folder 9 William Broyles, editor - slides 1982 Box 1, Folder 10 Charles Burkowski, writer - slides, negatives, and supplemental materials 1981 Box 1, Folder 11 California, cities - slides 1980-1982 Box 1, Folder 12 California, Death Valley - slides and supplemental materials 1980 Box 1, Folder 13 California, Joshua Tree - slides 1984 Box 1, Folder 14 California, Lake Tahoe - slides, photographs, and supplemental materials 1982 Box 1, Folder 15 California, Southern - slides and supplemental material 1978 Box 1, Folder 16 Canada - slides 1978-1989 Box 1, Folder 17 China - slides and supplemental materials 1981 Box 1, Folder 18 China, extra - slides 1981 Box 1, Folder 19 Michael Chriton, writer - slides and supplemental materials 1988 Box 1, Folder 20 Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas - slides and supplemental materials 1988 Box 1, Folder 21 Roger Corman, director - slides and supplemental materials 1978 Box 1, Folder 22 Cuba - slides and supplemental materials 1984 Box 1, Folder 23 Maureen Dean, writer - slides and supplemental materials 1986 Box 1, Folder 24 Dear Abby - slides 1976 Elisa Leonelli Photographs and H.Mss.1102 3 Essays Collection Series: 1Slides and Supplemental Materials 1973-1999 Box 1, Folder 25 Brian De Palma, director - slides and supplemental materials 1978-1987 Box 2, Folder 1 Disneyland - slides and supplemental materials 1973-1988 Box 2, Folder 2 Disneyland, Disney's California Adventure - slides and supplemental materials 2001 Box 2, Folder 3 Disneyland, Mickey's Toontown - slides and supplemental materials 1993 Box 2, Folder 4 Drive-in theaters - slides and supplemental materials 1977 Box 2, Folder 5 Elysium - slides and supplemental materials 1981-1984 Box 2, Folder 6 Gary Essert, American Cinematheque - slides and supplemental materials 1985 Box 2, Folder 7 Fashion, big beauties - slides and supplemental materials 1982 Box 2, Folder 8 Fashion, bows - slides, negatives, and supplementals 1982 Box 2, Folder 9 Fashion, Fiorucci - slides and supplemental materials 1978 Box 2, Folder 10 Fashion, Halloween - slides and supplemental materials 1976-1985 Box 2, Folder 11 Fashion, New Romantics - slides, negatives, and supplemental materials 1981 Box 2, Folder 12 Fashion, punk - slides 1977 Box 2, Folder 13 Fashion, studio (1 of 3) - slides 1975-1980 Box 2, Folder 14 Fashion, studio (2 of 3) - slides and supplemental materials 1975-1980 Box 2, Folder 15 Fashion, studio (3 of 3) - slides 1975-1980 Box 2, Folder 16 Fashion, summer - slides and supplemental material 1980 Box 2, Folder 17 Fashion, western - slides and supplemental material 1981 Box 2, Folder 18 Formula 1 race, Long Beach, California - slides and supplemental materials 1983 Box 2, Folder 19 France, Arles - slides and supplemental materials 1983 Box 2, Folder 20 France, Cannes - slides and supplemental materials 1983 Box 2, Folder 21 France, Paris - slides 1975-1979 Box 2, Folder 22 From Italy - slides and supplemental materials 1985 Box 2, Folder 23 Mario Frosali, violin maker - slides, prints, and supplemental materials 1979 Box 2, Folder 24 Monica Gazzo, artist - slides and supplemental materials 1982 Box 2, Folder 25 Germany, Berlin - slides 1983 Box 2, Folder 26 Suki Goodwin, Miss California - slides and supplemental materials 1981 Box 2, Folder 27 Alex Hailey, writer - slides 1978 Box 2, Folder 28 Hawaii - slides and supplemental materials 1980 Box 2, Folder 29 Hawaii - slides and supplemental