Miles R. Everitt

Archives and collection Everitt’s photographic materials are preserved as Miles Everitt Photographs (Coll2013-100) at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. In 2012, Everitt’s photographs were included in Latent Images, an exhibition presented by the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives; the exhibition text described him as an amateur photographer who “obsessively photographed African American men beginning in the 1930s” and who referred to himself as “content to be unknown.”

Relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe Morrisroe writes that during Mapplethorpe’s efforts to study photographs of Black male nudes in the late 1970s, he was introduced (via Kelly Edey) to Everitt, described as a retired electrical engineer in Los Angeles who had been photographing Black men since the early 1930s and who kept his photographs private out of fear of losing his job.

Writer Jack Fritscher described Mapplethorpe as "very absorbent" and wrote that he sought out photographers including Everitt while developing his work.

Name variation Everitt’s surname is sometimes rendered as "Everett" in some sources, including the title of Walker’s 1994 profile and writings by Jack Fritscher.