New Past Event Landing Page
Curator Tour of Heritage Gallery
Thursday, December 6, 2018
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Free
Screening of "Wanderer" by Danny Lyon
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Friday, November 16, 2018
6:00pm
Free
The Center is excited to present the West Coast debut of Danny Lyon's new documentary in conjunction with his exhibition at Etherton Gallery. The evening will also feature Lyon in conversation with Chief Curator Becky Senf.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Free
This evening will feature a screening of Automatic on the Road and a reading and conversation with Ross Goodwin, Christiana Caro, and Lewis Rapkin.
Members' Experience: Passport to Paris Photo
Monday, November 5, 2018 8:00am
to Sunday, November 11, 2018 8:00pm
Free
As the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to photography, Paris Photo offers collectors and enthusiasts alike the most diverse portfolio of projects today.
This November, join us in the City of Light for a curated Paris Photo experience exclusive to CCP members. Strengthen your knowledge of photography through exhibitions, events and conversation series with leading artists, curators, critics and historians – all while enjoying Parisian flair and fare.
Southern Arizona Archives Bazaar
Event Location: Arizona History Museum
Saturday, November 3, 2018
11:00am to 3:00pm
Free
Join us at the Arizona History Museum for talks about researching and preserving your family history, then meet the experts who can get you started. Explore archived collections from all over Southern Arizona at this free family-friendly event and discover how materials and stories are preserved for generations to come. Participating organizations include Southern Arizona archives, museums and historical societies.
An Evening with Jane and Michael Stern
Thursday, October 25, 2018
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Free
Speaker: Jane and Michael Stern
In conjunction with our exhibition Longer Ways to Go: Photographs of the American Road, the Center is excited to welcome road food experts Jane and Michael Stern for an evening of conversation about eating along the road.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Free
Join the Center for Creative Photography and the Hanson Film TV Institute for a new series featuring independent female directors!
The third film in the series is 2011's Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt. The screening will also feature guest speaker Anna Cooper, Assistant Professor of Film and Television Studies.
The Hitch-Hiker Film Screening
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Free
Join the Center for Creative Photography and the Hanson Film TV Institute for a new film series featuring independent female directors!
The second film in the series is 1953's The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino. The screening will also feature guest speaker Dr. Joshua Gleich, Assistant Professor, School of Theatre, Film and Television.
The Desert on Celluloid Film Screenings
Event Location: The Loft Cinema
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
7:30pm to 9:30pm
Free
Celebrate American Archives Month in October as archivists from the University of Arizona Special Collections, the Arizona Historical Society and the Center for Creative Photography, and Jennifer Jenkins, UA professor of Literature, Film and Archival Studies, present treasures from their film collections. Featured films include: travelogue filmmaker Ken Wolfgang's documentary, Japanese Sword as the Soul of the Samurai (1970), narrated by Star Trek's George Takei; Hank Rides Again (1963), a travel film highlighting Tucson, the University of Arizona and Phoenix; In Search of the Sun (1972), a Tucson tourism film by Ray Manley; and High Heels and Ground Glass: Pioneering Women Photographers (1990), directed by Barbara Kasten and Deborah Irmas.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Saturday, September 22, 2018
10:00am to 2:00pm
Free
Join us for a car-themed Family Day! In conjunction with our exhibition Longer Ways to Go: Photographs of the American Road, we'll be celebrating all things car! Join us for photo activities, vintage cameras, photo booth fun, scavenger hunt, snacks, and a screening of Pixar’s "Cars" at noon. Curious about those beautifully-restored classic cars you’ve seen parked around town? Our Family Day sponsor Truly Nolen will be bringing vehicles from their Antique Fleet for the whole family to explore. Family Day is free and open to the public!
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
6:00pm to 8:30pm
Free
Join the Center for Creative Photography and the Hanson Film TV Institute for a new film series featuring independent female directors!
The first film in the series is Border Radio, with a special appearance by director Allison Anders.
A Conversation with Steve McCurry
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Friday, September 7, 2018
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Free
Join the Center for a very special evening with photographer Steve McCurry. McCurry will be featured in conversation with CCP Director Anne Breckenridge Barrett.
Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers, several books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, August 23, 2018
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Free
Stop in to the CCP to learn about internship and job opportunities!
Representatives from Curatorial, Conservation, Registration and Preparation, Archives, Digital Imaging, Membership, and Marketing will be present to talk about opportunities in their departments. There will also be button making, a scavenger hunt, a selfie station, and fun demos. Even better? If you join us at the open house you'll have multiple opportunities to walk away with a Richard Avedon poster.
Students from all majors are encouraged to attend.
Members' Tour of Etherton Gallery
Friday, July 27, 2018
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Free
Advocate- and Patron-level members, join the Center and Etherton Gallery collectors for an invitation-only tour of Etherton Gallery’s summer exhibition From the Archives: Masters of 20th Century American Photography.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
6:30pm
Free
CCP has teamed up with the brewers at 1702 Craft Beer & Pizza to create an exhibition-inspired beer! Longer Ways to Gose, a sour beer with herbal notes and a hint of saltiness, will be on tap at 1702 this summer. Join us on June 28 at 6:30 p.m. to drink beer, eat pizza, share road trip photos, and play a game of road-themed trivia.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Mark Klett
Thursday, April 26, 2018
5:30pm
Free
Celebrate the closing of Courting Failure, Embracing Risk: Mark Klett and Collaboration with a presentation by Mark Klett.
Members' Conservation Lab Tour
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Free for Members
Join us at the Center for Creative Photography for a tour of the Conservation Lab with CCP Conservator, Dana Hemmenway. Please note: this tour is limited to Advocate and Patron level members. Space is limited to ten members - please RSVP to ccp-events@email.arizona.edu(link sends e-mail).
The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World - a Presentation by Damon Krukowski
Speaker: Damon Krukowski
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
5:30pm
Free
Join us for a discussion about the shift from analog to digital media across platforms, from music to photography. Damon Krukowski is a musician (Damon & Naomi, Galaxie 500), author of the book The New Analog (The New Press/MIT Press), and host of the podcast Ways of Hearing (from Radiotopia’s Showcase). He was educated at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Members' AIPAD New York Experience 2018
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:00pm
to Friday, April 6, 2018 6:00pm
$250 for members
Join the Center for the first annual Members only AIPAD New York experience. The price of tickets include an evening conversation and reception hosted by Christie’s Auction House, an exclusive tour with the Avedon Foundation, as well as a private tour of The Photography Show led by the Center's Chief Curator, Dr. Rebecca Senf, and so much more.
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Friday, March 30, 2018
10:00am to 4:00pm
Free
In celebration of Women's History Month, join us for an art + feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon!
This event is designed to improve coverage of gender, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, ongoing editing support, reference materials, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate, particularly transgender and cisgender women.
The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, March 22, 2018
5:30pm
Free
Award-winning novelist and writer Geoff Dyer will share his most recent exploration into the world of photography. Succumbing to a long-term fascination, Dyer delved into the work of Garry Winogrand, one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, Dyer’s newest book The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand features one hundred photographs from the Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP). In addition to presenting the story of the book’s creation and his experiences researching at the CCP, Dyer will take us on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from Winogrand’s vast archive, with responses to the photographs that are unorthodox, funny, and eye-opening.
Ansel Adams: Performing the Print
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Saturday, February 17, 2018 12:00pm
to Sunday, May 20, 2018 4:00pm
Free
Ansel Adams famously said that the photographic negative is like a composer’s score, and the print a performance. As home of the Ansel Adams Archive, the Center is uniquely positioned to illustrate Adams’s meaning. This exhibition of twenty-four photographs will feature sets of prints—grouped in twos and threes—that show how on different occasions Adams created varying interpretations from his own negatives. The exhibition will also feature a small selection of prints that span the master’s six-decade career to highlight Adams’s particular talent and sensitivity as a photographic printer.
Ansel Adams Public Celebration
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Saturday, February 17, 2018
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Free
Join us for an afternoon of Ansel fun! Activities include the opening of Ansel Adams: Performing the Print, self-guided archival object tours, cake, vintage camera display, and hands-on family activity. The afternoon also features a presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist, David Hume Kennerly, a friend of Ansel Adams.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Friday, February 16, 2018
5:30pm
Free for Members, $30 for General Public
Join us for an exclusive reception to celebrate Ansel Adams. Guests will enjoy a private print viewing of additional Adams prints not on dispay in Ansel Adams: Performing the Print, an archival material viewing, the first look at the exhibition, and a chance to meet Director Anne Breckenridge Barrett. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Public Lecture with Masao Yamamoto
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Masao Yamamoto
Friday, January 12, 2018
5:30pm
Free
On Friday, January 12, 2018 at 5:30 pm the Center will present a public artist's talk by Masao Yamamoto, a visiting photographer from Japan. This lecture is in conjunction with Etherton Gallery presenting the photographs of Rodrigo Moya, Graciela Iturbide and Masao Yamamoto in Mementos. The exhibition highlights the photograph as keepsake, a token of remembrance instilled with memories and dreams long past.
Artifacts and Orbits—An Evening of Art & Science Inquiry
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Damon Sauer, Julie Anand, Dr. Beth O’Leary, and Dr. Moriba K. Jah
Thursday, November 9, 2017
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Free
Join us for a multidisciplinary panel in conjunction with the current exhibition Invisible to the Eye featuring Damon Sauer, Julie Anand, Dr. Beth O’Leary, and Dr. Moriba K. Jah. Phoenix-based artist collaborators Sauer and Anand will introduce their current project featured in the exhibition, Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks, in which they photograph the remains of Cold War satellite calibration targets that were part of the first spy satellite program and then digitally render a map of orbiting satellites in the sky overhead. The project not only addresses the origins of satellite technology but also the massive information network in which we are all currently suspended and reliant upon. Dr. O’Leary, a space archeaologist and Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at New Mexico State University will speak to the ways in which artifacts on Earth connected with space exploration as well as the artifacts human beings distribute beyond the Earth’s surface are ripe for archaeological consideration. Dr. Jah, an astrodynamist and Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin will inform us from his perspective on problems in space traffic and the long-term sustainability of space activities. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Kate Albers, Associate Professor in the UA School of Art, whose current work explores the intersection of photography, geolocational technology, and landscape.
Celebrate the contributions of Dr. John Schaefer & Tony Celentano
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Saturday, November 4, 2017
10:00am to 1:00pm
$40-50
Please join the Center for Creative Photography for the inaugural Portraits of CCP. This event honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the Center throughout its history and whose impact will be felt for years to come.
This year’s honorees are Dr. John P. Schaefer, President Emeritus of the University of Arizona and founder of the Center, and Tony Celentano, a volunteer with and supporter of the Center. The two were chosen for their commitment to the CCP since its beginnings and their continuing support.
Wynn Bullock: Revelations Public Lecture & Members' Reception
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Brett Abbott, Lynne Harrington-Bullock & Barbara Bullock-Wilson
Thursday, October 26, 2017
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Free for Members
Join us on Thursday, October 26 for a public lecture and members’ reception for Wynn Bullock: Revelations. The Center is happy to host Brett Abbott, former Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography and Head of Collections at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and current Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Abbott curated the traveling Bullock retrospective and is the recipient of the 2012 Ansel Adams Fellowship from the CCP, where he did early stages of his research on the artist. The Center will also welcome Lynne Harrington-Bullock and Barbara Bullock-Wilson, children of Wynn Bullock, who will elaborate on their father’s life and work and what it was like growing up in the Bullock family.
Anne Breckenridge Barrett Appointed Director of the CCP
Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:00am
to Monday, January 1, 2018 11:00am
Free
The University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Breckenridge Barrett as Director.
Breckenridge Barrett has over 20 years of experience in museums, non-profit management, and law. She is currently the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), a position she has held since 2013. Among her many accomplishments, she helped shepherd and produce landmark exhibitions including David Bowie Is, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, and the recent Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg.
Breckenridge Barrett was selected through an international search that included input from CCP’s diverse constituents and supporters. She begins her appointment in January 2018.
Kōzō Miyoshi: Middle of the Road Public Lecture
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Kōzō Miyoshi
Sunday, September 17, 2017
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Free
On Sunday, September 17, the Center will present a public artist’s talk by Japanese photographer Kōzō Miyoshi, in conjunction with Longer Ways to Go: Photographs of the American Road, an exhibition of photographs from the Center’s collection currently on view in the Norton Family Photography Gallery at Phoenix Art Museum. During the 1990s, while he was an artist-in-residence at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Miyoshi traversed what remains of Route 66, the “Main Street of America,” creating placid, meticulously composed images with an 8 x 10 view camera. Miyoshi chose the title “Middle of the Road” to refer to his habit of standing dead-center in the road to make a photograph with his tripod-mounted camera, a gesture that reveals signs of past use in the form of tire marks, seams, and cracked pavement, while reminding us that, at least at the moment Miyoshi took the picture, no one was coming. Made soon after Route 66 was removed from the federal highway system, when local preservation efforts were just getting under way, Miyoshi’s images form a compelling document of the landmark’s transition from highway to scenic byway, from America to Americana.
Member's Print Viewing & Reception for Kōzō Miyoshi: Middle of the Road
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Speaker: Kōzō Miyoshi
Sunday, September 17, 2017
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Free to members
Join us for a members print viewing showcasing works from across Miyoshi’s career. The viewing brings together photographs made during Miyoshi’s time as CCP artist-in-residence—depicting Tucson streets, homes, and residents, pueblo-style churches, and cowboys—as well as photographs of Miyoshi’s native Japan—street portraits, images of botanical gardens, and works from a series documenting the aftermath of the 2011 quake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Miyoshi will lead a conversation about his work, his time at the Center, and his unique relationship to the desert Southwest as an artist living and working in Japan. After the print viewing, stay for a reception with the artist in the Center’s lobby.
Lecture: Photograph / Viewer / Landscape: Revisiting the Reception of New Topographics, 1975
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Emilia Mickevicius
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Free
Emilia Mickevicius will present a lecture titled, "Photograph/Viewer/Landscape: Revisiting the Reception of New Topographics, 1975" at 5pm, August 29th, CCP Auditorium. She is a 2017 recipient of the Photographic Arts Council of Los Angeles Fellowship from the CCP and a PhD History of Art and Architecture scholar at Brown University, Providence. Her dissertation, “Dispassionate Landscapes: Style and Spectatorship in New Topographics, 1975,” re-analyzes one of the most important photographic exhibitions of the 20th century.
Center for Creative Photography Director Finalists Announced
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Monday, July 24, 2017 4:00pm
to Monday, July 31, 2017 4:00pm
Free
The University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography (CCP) is pleased to announce the finalists for the position of Director and invites you to attend their public presentations:
Michelle Dunn Marsh
Monday, July 24, 4:00 – 5:30pm, CCP Auditorium
James Leventhal
Thursday, July 27, 4:00 – 5:30pm, CCP Auditorium
Anne Breckenridge Barrett
Monday, July 31, 4:00 – 5:30pm, CCP Auditorium
Screening of "Infiltrators" by Khaled Jarrar
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, May 4, 2017
7:00pm
Free
Join us for a screening of Infiltrators, a visceral “road movie” that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, round, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers. Khaled Jarrar’s debut documentary was the standout success at the 2012 Dubai International Film Festival, winning the Muhr Arab Documentary Prize, the Special Jury Prize, the International Critics Prize, and the Gold Hugo for the best Documentary at Chicago International Film Festival.
Vote for the Center in Museum Dance Off 4 TODAY!
Monday, April 24, 2017 8:00am
to Tuesday, April 25, 2017 5:00am
Free
We entered Museum Dance Off 4 and need your help to win - VOTE TODAY!
We've partnered with our friends at The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Arizona State Museum to create a sure-to-please video dancing extravaganza. Voting is done in rounds, with the winner in each round being the museum that gets the most votes. You can help support your University of Arizona museums by casting your vote at www.whenyouworkatamuseum.com through 5 am Tucson time on April 25. Even better? You can vote as often as you want!
Help us win our round and win glory for Tucson and Arizona!
What’s Museum Dance Off? It’s an international competition that brings together museums from all over the world! Learn more here.
Gallery Talk: Longer Ways to Go
Event Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Speaker: Andrew Kensett
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Free
The network of roads in America is immense, and “The Road” looms even larger in American culture. The American road has always been a place of self-discovery both for its individual travelers and, through their narratives, for the country as a whole. True to form, it can move us in opposite directions. It can lead toward a future of greater standardization and bigger development or back into a nostalgic past. It has the potential to either isolate or unify its travelers. Roads cut the landscape in two, but connect the country to itself. The road is linked to the frontier myth, but roads have hastened the congestion of the once-open West. Throughout the history of cars in this country, there has been a sustained impulse to make photographs that describe the varied and contradictory texture of the road, one that continues apace. Longer Ways to Go presents photographs from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography made of, from, on, and in the more than four million miles of road that criss-cross America, over eight decades.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Monday, March 13, 2017
1:00pm
$50
The Center for Creative Photography is pleased to partner with the Tucson Museum of Art League to present “An Afternoon with Georgia.” Join us at the Center for a reading and discussion by:
Dawn Tripp
The author of the acclaimed historical novel based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia.
Olivia Miller
Curator of Exhibitions and Education at The University of Arizona Museum of Art. Unveiling The University of Arizona Museum of Art’s own Georgia O’Keeffe painting, Red Canna.
Following the reading, from 2:00 to 3:30, visit the Center’s print study room for a special print viewing showcasing Alfred Stieglitz’s photographs and personal papers; portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz from the Center for Creative Photography’s collections by contemporaries including Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Yousuf Karsh, and more.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Louis Kaplan
Friday, February 24, 2017
5:30pm
Free
While one might think that the combining of photography and death leads to mourning and melancholy (as in Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes), this presentation explores the flip side of this somber state of affairs and the return of the (humorously) repressed in the comic equation "Photography + Death = Laughter." Beginning with Hippolyte Bayard’s prankish performance Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (1840), photographers have “played dead” and turned to a morbid sense of humor as a mode of comic relief. This presentation will review a range of genres and fascinating case studies that typify this sensibility whether these images stage macabre stereographic ghosts and skeletons, the poses of Surrealist humour noir, headless photographic cut-ups, or Conceptual art pratfalls.
Ansel Adams Birthday Celebration
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Saturday, February 18, 2017
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Free
Saturday, February 18, 1:00-4:00 pm
2:00 pm - Presentation by Chief Curator Becky Senf
Join us to wish Ansel Adams a very happy 115th birthday with a print viewing, lecture, cake, and more! Chief Curator Becky Senf will present a look at Adams’ life through her favorite pieces in the Center’s archives at 2 p.m. For those looking to dive deeper into the archives, Leslie Squyres, Head of Volkerding Study Center, will offer small-group tours of the Adams drawers in the From the Vault exhibition (space is limited, please sign up at the check-in table the day of the event to reserve your spot). Guests can also enjoy a very special Adams print viewing and experience the artist’s work up close and unframed. There will also be vintage cameras on display, Adams books to peruse, and cake!
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Friday, February 17, 2017
1:00pm
Free
Thank you to the 600+ attendees that helped us wish Ansel Adams a very happy 115th birthday! The day included a print viewing, a packed lecture by Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf (and an encore presentation!), tours of the Adams flat files with Leslie Squyres, Head of the Volkerding Study Center, vintage cameras provided by Western Photographic Historical Society, and more. To see event images click here.
Louis Carlos Bernal Print Viewing
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Saturday, December 3, 2016
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Free
We are excited to present a special print viewing of the work of Louis Carlos Bernal, the Arizona-born photographer who founded and directed the photography program at Pima Community College. Following a tradition of Latin American documentary street photography, Bernal photographed in the barrio, making images that captured the unique character of Chicano life. When making portraits, he was drawn to spaces used for gathering and communion, spaces that reflected his subjects’ relationships to their communities. Bernal wrote of his work, “My images speak of the religious and family ties I have experienced as a Chicano. I have concerned myself with the mysticism of the Southwest and the strength of the spiritual and cultural values of the barrio."
Slant Rhymes: The Photographs of Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
Saturday, November 19, 2016
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Free
This joint public slide talk with Etherton Gallery will feature a selection of photographs from the creative couple's monographs, including Alex's new book of 30 years of work from Mexico, La Calle and Rebecca's My Dakota, an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly, as well as some of their collaborative books, including Violet Isle. They will also show some new works-in-progress. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session as well as an opportunity to purchase books by the artists.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe Print Viewing
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Saturday, October 8, 2016
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Free
Join us October 8th from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Laura Volkerding Print Study Center at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) for a special presentation of the work of pioneering fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe. During her twenty-two years as a principal photographer for Harper’s Bazaar, Dahl-Wolfe helped define the burgeoning genre of American fashion photography. She created images replete with sensuality, sophistication, and wit, characterized by her naturalistic style and creative use of location. Examples of Dahl-Wolfe’s fashion work will be on view alongside her portraits of luminaries from Isamu Noguchi to Marlene Dietrich, as well as personal photographs and materials from her archive, which is housed at the CCP.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Joel-Peter Witkin
Friday, September 9, 2016
5:30pm
Free
You are invited to join us at the Center on Friday, September 9 at 5:30 PM for a special lecture by world-renowned photographer Joel-Peter Witkin.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: David Shneer
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
5:30pm
Free
Blockbuster photography shows like War/Photography, about the history of photography’s role in documenting war, and Faking It, which looks at photographic manipulation “before photoshop,” have riveted audiences by the thousands. One artist appears in both, a Soviet photographer named Dmitrii Baltermants. In this presentation, Dr. Shneer tells the story of Baltermants’s most famous photograph, titled Grief, from its wartime origins on a Nazi killing field in southern Russia to its star-studded feature role in major art exhibitions in the 21st century. He focuses on the question of value and how what was valued during the war in an image of fascist atrocities was not the same value that the image had in the 21st century. Dr. Shneer explores the history of its circulation, exhibition, and collection as he shows how Cold War politics, the emergence of institutionalized Holocaust memory, and the rise of the art market all co-existence simultaneously, and uncomfortably, in Grief.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
10:00am to 3:00pm
Free
The Center for Creative Photography is celebrating International Museum Day by hosting a FREE print viewing recognizing this year's theme of "Museums and Cultural Landscapes." Please visit the International Council of Museum's webpage for more information on this celebration and to view a virtual map of what other institutions around the world are up to!
Film Screening: "Kandahar Journals" by Louie Palu
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Louie Palu
Saturday, April 23, 2016
2:00pm
Free
Louie Palu, award winning documentary photographer and filmmaker, will be in attendance for the screening of his new film. Kandahar Journals is a film which addresses the impossibility of photographs to convey the reality of war. This film is shown as part of the Arizona International Film Festival. For trailer and details: Click Here.
Lecture: Louie Palu "Image Control In the Age of Terror"
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Louie Palu
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
5:30pm
Free
Documentary photographer and filmmaker Louie Palu examines the social-political issues involving war and human rights in his work. Palu's series of conceptual newspapers on the Mexican Drug War and the detention center in Guantanamo Bay look into the creation, use, control and censorship of photographs in the news. Additionally, he explores government and media message-shaping, how the public consumes photographs, and how photojournalism has shaped public perception in the post-9/11 age of terror. Palu's lecture will focus on the contemporary news landscape and how his work is situated within it, amid the conflict and violence. He will also discuss his new documentary film, Kandahar Journals, the thesis of which addresses the impossibility of photographs to convey the reality of war.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Ralph Gibson
Friday, September 18, 2015
5:30pm
Free
Presented by the Etherton Gallery Distinguished Lecture Series, please join celebrated photographer Ralph Gibson (born 1939, Los Angeles, CA) as he speaks about his career from 1960 to today, as well as his new book. Free and open to the public.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, September 10, 2015 5:30pm to Thursday, October 8, 2015 5:30pm
2015 Upcoming Public Programs
Lucas Blalock and John Lehr in Conversation with Curator Joshua Chuang
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 5:30 pm
Presented as part of the Etherton Gallery Lecture Series. Artist websites: Lucas Blalock | John Lehr
Ralph Gibson (artist talk)
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 5:30 pm (details)
Louie Palu: Image Control in the Age of Terror
Thursday, October 6, 2015 - 5:30 pm (details)
Lucas Blalock & John Lehr in Conversation with Curator Joshua Chuang
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Lucas Blalock, John Lehr, Joshua Chuang
Thursday, September 10, 2015
5:30pm
Free
Presented as part of the Etherton Gallery Lecture Series. Artist websites: Lucas Blalock | John Lehr
Adam Block: "Astrophotography Today: That's Sick! Is It Real?"
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Adam Block
Thursday, April 23, 2015
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Free
Adam Block is a leading astrophotographer and the founder of the UA Science Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter stargazing programs; his work appears frequently on NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day Website” and he writes a column on astrophotography for Astronomy magazine. During this public lecture he will speak about how modern images of the cosmos are made, how they influence the field of photography, and just what makes them so compelling.
"Desert Moon" Special Screening
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Jason Davis with Ewen Whitaker, Robert Strom, Alfred McEwen and Kristin Block
Thursday, April 9, 2015
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Free
The Center will screen Desert Moon, a film that chronicles the UA’s role in putting the first astronauts on the Moon. After the screening director Jason Davis will lead a conversation with four UA planetary scientists: Ewen Whitaker and Robert Strom, both of whom were involved in NASA’s lunar program of the 1960s; and Alfred McEwen and Kristin Block, respectively the Principal Investigator and Targeting Specialist for the UA-led Mars HiRISE project.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Speaker: Stephen Strom
Thursday, March 26, 2015
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Free
On Thursday, March 26th in the CCP galleries Stephen Strom, Arizona-based photographer and former Associate Director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, will host a tour of Astronomical: Photographs of Our Solar System and Beyond. Strom, one of the exhibition's co-organizers, will discuss the photographs on view from his unique perspective as an artist and astronomer. Works from his series "Celestial Siblings," which compares images of Earth with those taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are featured in Astronomical.
Public Lecture & Opening Reception with Xavier Debeerst
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Xavier Debeerst
Thursday, February 26, 2015
5:30pm
Free
Xavier Debeerst is a noted specialist in the field of historical astrophotography. Join us for this keynote lecture followed by a public opening reception for Astronomical: Photographs of Our Solar System and Beyond from 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, January 3, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Need something to smile about now that the new year has arrived? This Photo Friday looks at the lighter side of the Center’s collection with images that only photography can capture and preserve. Robert Doisneau is known for his wry, yet playful look at contemporary life in Paris, while Elliot Erwitt takes on the absurdities in life amidst his documentary endeavors. Both photographers’ works are included as well as those by John Gutmann, Jerry Uelsmann, and some individual baseball cards (with stats!) of your favorite artists by Mike Mandel.
Charles Harbutt’s Departures and Arrivals: The Conversation
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Charles Harbutt, Joan Liftin and Trudy Wilner Stack
Thursday, January 16, 2014
5:30pm
Free
Center for Creative Photography Archive photographer Charles Harbutt, subject of the current exhibition, will speak about his work and life in photography with independent curator Trudy Wilner Stack and photographer, editor, and educator, Joan Liftin. The three, colleagues for over thirty years, recently worked together on Harbutt’s retrospective book, Departures and Arrivals, the occasion for and centerpiece of the exhibition on view at CCP. They will discuss their thoughts on photography in the context of Harbutt’s long career as photojournalist, personal documentarian, and teacher. The evening will include a presentation by Harbutt of his most recent project, made in 2013. The Conversation will also consider the nature of photography itself, its practice and its presentation in exhibitions and publications, and the CCP Charles Harbutt Archive, established in 1997 when Wilner Stack was CCP Curator.
Photo Friday, Ansel Adams: Themes and Variations
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Friday, February 7, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Music played an important role throughout Ansel Adams’ life. At the age of twelve, Adams taught himself to play the piano and to read music. For the next ten years or so he studied piano, intending to pursue a career as a concert pianist. Although he eventually gave up the piano for photography, music influenced his work as a photographer throughout his career. Adams said, “. . . the negative is similar to a musician's score, and the print to the performance of that score. The negative comes to life only when ‘performed’ as a print." The February 7, 2014 Photo Friday at the Center for Creative Photography will feature pairs and small groups of Adams photographs exploring an idea taken from music – themes and variations.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Frank Gohlke
Thursday, February 20, 2014
5:30pm
Free
On Thursday, February 20, UA photo professor Frank Gohlke will give a talk about his current project, a study of wild apple forests in Kazakhstan, funded by a Fulbright Scholar Research Grant. Gohlke’s apple passion dates back 40 years to a commencement address delivered by the late John Szarkowski to the graduating class of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Gohlke’s fascination grew during a three-year stay in Middlebury, Vermont, where he first experienced apple cider fresh from a press. "Apples" by Frank Browning (North Point Press, 1998), introduced Gohlke to the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan, from which domesticated apples grown across the world are derived.
Gohlke’s lecture will include photographs of earlier projects that presage aspects of the Kazakhstan work, and a group of images made since December 2013 in the first stage of the current project.
Upcoming Programs at the Center for Creative Photography
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Various
Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:30pm
to Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:30pm
Free
Photo Friday: 5x5, Five Prints from the Five Founding Fathers
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, March 7, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
The March 2014 Photo Friday will celebrate the five photographers whose archives created the foundation for the Center for Creative Photography's collections -- Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer. "5x5" will showcase the versatility of each photographer and the wide range of subjects that enthralled them during their artistic careers. On display will be five prints by each photographer, including recognizable images as well as images that may surprise viewers.
Penelope Umbrico: Photography as Subject. A conversation with Kate Palmer Albers
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Penelope Umbrico
Thursday, March 27, 2014
5:30pm
Free
On Thursday, March 27th, Penelope Umbrico and UA art history professor Kate Palmer Albers will discuss the artist’s photo-based installations, video, and digital media works that explore the ever-changing technologies of image making, and the ever-increasing production and consumption of images on the Internet. Utilizing photo-sharing and consumer websites as an expansive archive, Umbrico navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, and the individual and the collective. Her works question the idea of the “democratization” of photography and media, where pre-scripted images, made with tools programmed to function in predetermined ways, undermine a claim to authorship, subjectivity and individuality. For Umbrico, all images within this emergent environment are evidence of something other than what they depict.
The Center for Creative Photography appoints Joshua Chuang as Chief Curator
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
8:00am
Free
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) is proud to announce the appointment of Joshua Chuang to the position of Chief Curator. Mr. Chuang, who has been the Richard Benson Associate Curator of Photography and Digital Media at the Yale University Art Gallery, will assume his new post in April 2014.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, April 4, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
The “selfie”—which Urban Dictionary defines as “a picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, Myspace or any other sort of social networking website—is everywhere today. From Facebook to the Oscars, everyone is snapping pictures of themselves yet the selfie is not a new idea. People have been fascinated with producing images of themselves since the invention of photography in the 1800s. The April 4, 2014 Photo Friday at the Center for Creative Photography presents a variety of self-portraits by artists in the Center’s fine art photography collection.
Rebecca Najdowski: Desert Pictures
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Rebecca Najdowski
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
5:30pm
Free
In this presentation visual artist and writer Rebecca Najdowski will discuss how both the physical and conceptual terrains of the desert come to the surface in her artwork. This manifests in color analogue photograms, video, installation, and augmented reality interventions. In her practice she explores the potential of expanding photographic logic into other mediums through the creation of light installations and the engagement with materiality and limits of representation of photography and video. Najdowski uses the desert as a site to address notions of landscape, the sublime, phenomenology, perception, and the shifting territories of the intangible and the concrete. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of Arizona and the Artist Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.
Sand Rushes In: the desert, the border, the body in the work of Sama Alshaibi
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Sama Alshaibi
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
5:30pm
Free
In her first Center of Creative Photography artist talk since joining the Photography faculty at the School of Art (University of Arizona) in 2006, multi-media artist and Associate Professor Sama Alshaibi will discuss the major themes of her work. Her evolution as an artist concerned with the body’s complicated relationship to land through a compromised nationalistic lens has moved towards universal spaces of conflict. Connecting borders, bodies and site through allegorical devices and a variety of media (through video, installation, sculpture, photography and social media platforms), Alshaibi’s work suggests the repeated and recycled history of domination, power and control. Alshaibi’s talk will also reflect upon her significant career successes over the past year: her participation at the 55th Venice Biennial and FotoFest 2014 Biennial, the upcoming new work in the inaugural Honolulu Biennial, her soon to be published monograph with Aperture Foundation as well as being awarded University of Arizona’s 1885 Distinguished Scholar title and grant, her third major teaching award in her years at University of Arizona.
Anne Noble: In Search of an Ecological Sublime
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Anne Noble
Friday, April 25, 2014
5:30pm
Free
Co-sponsored by the CCP in collaboration with the School of Art and the Institute of the Environment: Antarctica and the Arctic are poignant markers of the impact of climate change in the 21st Century. While there is a growing awareness of the fragility of these environments, photography continues to project an image of heroic untouched wilderness that is often unwittingly informed by 19th and 20th century European literary narratives and visual conventions. Anne Noble is a photographer and curator whose work spans still and moving image, installation and international curatorial commissions. On Friday April 25th, Noble will discuss the development of her series of Antarctic photographic projects that critically engage with heroic age histories and narratives of land, place, and environment. Noble will also discuss her recent work that explores the relationship between people and bees, in which she collaborates with scientists to create projects that incorporate the perspectives of both art and science within an aesthetic framework. In 2003 Noble was awarded the Order of Merit for services to photography in New Zealand. In 2009 she was a recipient of the New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award and was awarded the Massey University individual research medal. Appointed Distinguished Professor of Fine Art at Massey University, Wellington in 2013, Noble is a PhD supervisor and mentors and supervises MFA students.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:30pm
to Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:30pm
Free
Rosalind Solomon, Jumping Off Place: How My Life Animates My Work
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Rosalind Solomon
Thursday, May 1, 2014
5:30pm
Free
On Thursday May 1st artist Rosalind Fox Solomon will speak about how her life experience animates her work. Solomon will discuss sources of the internal, visual language that puts her in touch with her subjects. She will speak of about her personal history and why at age 38, she began her life as an artist and photographer, revealing what led her to examine relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. Throughout her lecture, Solomon will share images, beginning with her earliest pictures in the American South and ending with a preview of her recent photographs from Israel and the West Bank which will be exhibited in Prague in September. THEM, a book of Solomon’s photographs interspersed with fragmented texts, will be published by MACK in late May. Solomon’s images continue to be widely published and exhibited around the world.
Photo Friday: Rosalind Solomon, Flowers Are Not the Story
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, May 2, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
The focus of the May Photo Friday will be on the work of New York City-based artist Rosalind Fox Solomon. Across diverse societies and circumstances, she examines relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. The selection of photographs references flowers, as in “April showers bring May flowers” which allows for a fine cross-section of her amazing images to be highlighted. The Rosalind Solomon Archive at the Center contains over 1000 fine prints, unique books and other art works which, together with her original negatives, transparencies, personal papers and other documentation, chronicle her long and productive career. Ms. Solomon’s images continue to be widely published and exhibited around the world.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, September 5, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Photo Fridays return with a selection of photographs curated by Becky Senf revolving around the theme of family, presented in conjunction with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's Bill Owens: Suburbia.
Artist Talk: Keith Carter & Kate Breakey
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Keith Carter & Kate Breakey
Friday, September 12, 2014
5:30pm
Free
For the past two decades, Keith Carter and Kate Breakey have each created hauntingly poetic and evocative bodies of work from the stuff of the real world. In a conversation moderated by Chief Curator Joshua Chuang, both of these acclaimed photographers will discuss their current work, longstanding friendship, and ongoing belief in the medium of photography. This talk is part of The Etherton Gallery Distinguished Lecture Series, presented in conjunction with Without and Within: Keith Carter and Kate Breakey with Ed Musante opening at Etherton Gallery September 13, 2014.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Jo Ann Callis, Douglas Nielsen, Joshua Chuang
Thursday, September 18, 2014
5:30pm
Free
Join Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection artist Jo Ann Callis for a presentation of her work followed by a conversation with collector Doug Nielsen and CCP Chief Curator Joshua Chuang. For a preview of Callis's work visit joanncallis.com.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Free
Following Jo Ann Callis's September 18 artist talk at the Center, please join us in celebrating our current exhibition, Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection. Promising to be a truly unique event for the Center with food, drink, and a few surprises throughout the night! Free and open to the public.
October Photo Friday: Solitude and Solace
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, October 3, 2014
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
The October Photo Friday is devoted to the study of photographs that capture the varied aspects of solitude. From the solitude of being alone in vast spaces to being alone within large crowds, solitude can provide solace and opportunities for reflection and solace. It can also create feelings of unease and anxiety. For others, solitude can bring a sense of elation or freedom. The range of feelings that solitude can offer is explored this month through photographs by Ansel Adams, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Linda Connor, Jerry Uelsmann, Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham, and many more.
Gallery Talk: Brian Paul Clamp & Douglas Nielsen
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
Speaker: Brian Paul Clamp & Douglas Nielsen
Thursday, October 9, 2014
5:30pm
Free
Brian Paul Clamp is the owner and director of ClampArt, a gallery in Chelsea in New York City specializing in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on photography. ClampArt mounts ten to fifteen exhibitions per year featuring the work of emerging and mid-career artists. Mr. Clamp opened the gallery in 2000 after completing a Master of Arts degree in Critical Studies in Modern Art at Columbia University. For eight years prior to that Mr. Clamp served as the director of a gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century American paintings. Aside from exhibitions at his own gallery space, Clamp has curated numerous photography shows at various venues throughout the United States, and has reviewed photographers’ portfolios on dozens of panels over the past several years. Mr. Clamp is the author of numerous publications on American art to date, and also occasionally contributes written work to various art periodicals.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Richard Renaldi
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
5:30pm
Free
Photographer Richard Renaldi, internationally exhibited and most recently acclaimed for his series Touching Strangers (monograph released by Aperture Foundation, spring 2014), will present and discuss his work. Visit www.renaldi.com to see more work.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, January 4, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
January's Photo Friday presents works by eight photographers of suburbia and suburban living. The photographs of Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, William Larson, Bill Owens, Mickey Pallas, Andrew Phelps, Arthur Taussig, and Garry Winogrand document various aspects of suburbia from the marketing and building of suburban developments to the realities of living in these communities.
Joel-Peter Witkin: Light to the Darkness
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Joel-Peter Witkin
Sunday, January 13, 2013
2:00pm
Free
The Center for Creative Photography will be hosting a lecture and slideshow presented by famed photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. A print viewing of selected new works by Joel-Peter will follow the lecture.
And Then… My First Years at CCP
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Harold Jones
Friday, January 25, 2013
5:30pm
Free
In March 1975, Harold Jones was appointed first Director of the Center for Creative Photography. Using news clippings, snapshots, and his own recollections, Jones will present his account of the first years at the Center. (See video)
After his tenure as founding Director of the Center, Jones went on to establish the Photography Program at the University of Arizona Department of Art, where he taught for the next 30 years. Presently, he is Professor Emeritus and, since May 2005, he has been the volunteer archive assistant and coordinator of the Voices of Photography oral history project at the Center. Jones continues to be a constant student and practitioner of photography.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, February 1, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
This investigation of enclosed spaces, objects, people, light and shadow offers a range of images from the intimate to the psychologically charged. It includes work by Jeff Wall, Sonya Noskowiak, Minor White, Max Yavno, Lee Friedlander, Jack Welpott, James Welling, Imogen Cunningham, Danny Lyon, and Jo Ann Callis.
Sy Johnson: Tales from the Loft
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Sy Johnson
Thursday, February 7, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Sy Johnson is a Jazz Arranger, Orchestrator, Pianist, Writer and Photographer. He has worked with Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, and Elvis Costello, among others. His Mingus arrangements are played by The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orchestra, published by Hal Leonard, and performed around the world. His collaboration with Charles Mingus on “Let My Children Hear Music” is a Twentieth Century Classic.
Nathan Lyons with Jessica McDonald: A Life in Photography
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Nathan Lyons with Jessica McDonald
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Jessica S. McDonald will speak with photographer, curator, and educator Nathan Lyons about his career and role in the expansion of American photography. As a curator, theorist, educator, artist, and advocate, Nathan Lyons has played a central role in the expansion of photography over the last five decades. After producing seminal exhibitions and publications as curator at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s, he founded the Visual Studies Workshop, an independent arts organization where his innovative programs trained a new generation of photographers, critics, curators, and historians. (See video.)
Sam Stephenson. The Making of the Jazz Loft Project: Archives as Resource and Wellspring
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Sam Stephenson
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Since 2002, Sam Stephenson has been the director of The Jazz Loft Project (JLP) at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He has studied the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith since 1997. His first book, Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project was published by W.W. Norton/CDS in 2001. In 2009, Alfred A. Knopf published his book, The Jazz Loft Project: The Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965. Currently he is writing a biography of Smith entitled Gene Smith’s Sink, for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Since 1997, Stephenson has conducted more than 500 oral history interviews, revealing an underground story of jazz and post-War arts unpreserved in the iconography. He co-produced the Jazz Loft Project Radio Series with Sara Fishko and WNYC: New York Public Radio. Stephenson is currently the 2012-13 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Professor of Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. (See presentation video.)
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, March 1, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Faith
The belief in gods or religious doctrines and their presence in our lives has been fertile ground for photographers who have interpreted people, objects, rituals and places of devotion and worship. This viewing includes work by Graciela Iturbide, Aaron Siskind, Nubar Alexanian, Kozo Miyoshi, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Felix Bonfils, Mark Klett, Yoshiyasu Suzuka and Gail Skoff.
Film Screening: Different Drummers
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
5:30pm
Free
A screening of Different Drummers. This film follows several Israeli peacemakers who provoke others to join their voices for peace and justice. Considered heroes by some and traitors by others, these individuals struggle daily in what seems to the Western world, a half-century conflict impossible to resolve. Well-known Palestinians briefly respond to their concerns. The American media have portrayed Israel as a country scarred by the violence of suicide bombers, demolitions, and collective punishment. The human rights issues, however, appear to fade into the background. Despite the atmosphere of "terror" that hovers over both Palestine and Israel, there are Israeli voices heard over the din that cry out for a just and lasting peace. (2003; 51 minutes).
Lola Alvarez Bravo: Rethinking the Archive
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Rachael Arauz and Adriana Zavala
Friday, March 29, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Guest curators Rachael Arauz and Adriana Zavala will discuss the development of the exhibition and the ways in which, together, the CCP Archive and the González Rendón Archive of Lola’s work enrich what we know about the career of this great photographer. (See video at Arizona's Public Media's Arizona Connection.)
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, April 5, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Illusion
In the pre-digital age of photography, practitioners explored the concept of illusion by staging scenes and darkroom manipulation as well as by careful positioning of their subjects and their cameras. This selection of images includes work by Richard Avedon, Lotte Beese, Karl Blossfeldt, André Kertész, Arthur Tress, Ruth Hollos, Erich Consemüller, Minor White, Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Emmanuel Rudnitsky.
The Politics of Place: Latin American Photography, Past and Present
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Vanessa K. Davidson, Ph.D.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Artists from Latin America have long embraced photography as a means to capture their surroundings, document social injustice and political upheaval, and create images of national identity. In this lecture, Dr. Davidson will explore photographs with potent political undertones that convey a sense of place that is crucial to their meanings. She will provide an historical overview of the development of photographic practices in Latin America, and will also touch upon the main themes of the recent Phoenix Art Museum exhibition, The Politics of Place: Latin American Photography, Past and Present.
Photo Friday: The Civil Rights Movement
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, September 6, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
This Photo Friday will feature Marion Palfi’s photographs of segregation and victims of racism in the South, a selection of portraits of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Benedict Fernandez, and Danny Lyon’s poignant images of grief-stricken funeral mourners in Birmingham as well as non-violent protests and violent arrests.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
5:30pm
Free
All lectures are held in the CCP Auditorium at 5:30pm
September 12 Shelby Lee Adams: 4th Generations
September 18 John Divola: The Landscape and Things in the Way
(co-sponsored by VASE)
September 24 Panel discussion. Water: Where Science and Art Meet
(co-sponsored by the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry)
September 25 Panel discussion of Todd Walker’s Anticipating Digital
September 26 Kimsooja (sponsored by VASE)
October 10 Scott Whiteford, David Taylor, and Alejandra Platt-Torres:
On the Line: Border Images from two Perspectives
(co-sponsored by the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry)
October 17 Andy Grundberg: On Photography Now
Shelby Lee Adams: 4th Generations
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Shelby Lee Adams
Thursday, September 12, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Shelby Lee Adams was born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, lived and grew up in the middle part of Johnson’s Fork, in Letcher County, Kentucky. An American environmental portrait photographer and artist, he is best known for his images of Appalachian family life. Adams has photographed Appalachian families since the mid-1970s. His work in Appalachia is from an insider’s point of view. These are people he knows personally, having met many families of the Appalachian mountains as a child travelling around the area with his uncle, who was a doctor.
The Landscape and Things in the Way
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: John Divola
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
5:30pm
Free
John Divola (1949, Los Angeles) works primarily with photography and digital imaging. Since 1975, he has taught photography and art at numerous institutions including California Institute of the Arts (1978-1988), and since 1988, he has been a Professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside. Divola's work has been featured in more than sixty solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Europe, Mexico, and Australia. His work has also been included in more than two hundred group exhibitions. Among Divola’s Awards are Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1976, 1979, 1990) and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1986). His recent books include Continuity (Ram Publications, 1997), Isolated Houses (Nazraeli, 2000), Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (Nazraeli, 2004), Three Acts (Aperture, 2006), and The Green of This Notebook (Nazraeli, 2009). While he has approached a broad range of subjects, Divola is currently moving through the landscape looking for the oscillating edge between the abstract and the specific.
Water: Where Science and Art Meet
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
5:30pm
Free
The Center for Creative Photography and the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry will explore the issues surrounding water and sustainability in the desert with a panel discussion titled Water: Where Science and Art Meet on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 5:30 p.m. in the Center’s Auditorium. The focal point of the discussion will be the Confluencenter’s highly acclaimed book Ground|Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River and photographs from CCP’s Water in the West archive collection. Confluencenter director, Dr. Javier Duran, will moderate the panel, which will include Ellen McMahon, one of the editors of the Ground|Water book and a professor of art at the UA; Dr. Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at CCP and the Phoenix Art Museum; Dr. Gregg Garfin, deputy director for Science Translation and Outreach at the Institute of the Environment; and Edgar Cardenas, doctoral candidate at the ASU School of Sustainability.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Melanie Walker
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
11:00am
Free
In celebration of the 96th anniversary of Todd’s birth, the Center for Creative Photography declares Wednesday, September 25, Todd Walker Day!
Todd Walker – Embracing Technology
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Ann Simmons Myers, moderator, Melanie Walker, Teresa Engle Schirmer, and Alex Sweetman
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
5:30pm
Free
A panel discussion featuring Ann Simmons Myers as moderator and Melanie Walker, Teresa Engle Schirmer, and Alex Sweetman contributors.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, October 4, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
This Photo Friday presents a variety of ways one can experience the repetitious quality of photography—not only between multiple images from the same negative, but also within individual images, their content, and formal aspects. And, of course, this idea is interpreted with broad curatorial license from the Center’s deep collection. Included in the selection are works by Diane Arbus, Stephan Diller, Rosalind Solomon, Stephen Sprague, and Garry Winogrand, among others.
On the Line: Border Images from Two Perspectives
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Scott Whiteford, moderator, Alejandra Platt-Torres, and David Taylor
Thursday, October 10, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Photographers Alejandra Platt-Torres and David Taylor have spent years along the U.S.-Mexico border, each separately documenting the landscape and the people. Torres’ black and white work focuses on the plight of the migrants and portraits of indigenous people while Taylor examines the dramatic increase in security apparatus along the border. They will show and discuss their work in a forum moderated by Dr. Scott Whiteford, professor at the UA Center for Latin American Studies, whose current project focuses on globalization, borders, and environmental security in Latin America.
A Tale of Two Eras: Photography's Future Then and Now
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Andy Grundberg
Thursday, October 17, 2013
5:30pm
Free
Andy Grundberg, associate provost of the Corcoran School of Art and Design, is an art critic, curator, and educator with over 25 years of experience specializing in writing about photography and video within contemporary art. His essays and articles for the New York Times and other publications are collected in Crisis of the Real (Aperture).
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, November 1, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Hollywood, self-proclaimed movie capital of the world, is home to the famous and infamous alike. From glamour shots to mug shots, photographers and photography played a pivotal role in making Hollywood what it is today. The November 1 Photo Friday looks at Hollywood through the lenses of well-known photographers in the Center’s collection. Included are works by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Robert Cummings, Nickolas Muray, W. Eugene Smith, Peter Stackpole, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, and Max Yavno.
Photo Friday: Ansel Adams and the Close View
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, December 6, 2013
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Known for his grand, expansive view of the spectacular in nature, Ansel Adams also captured nature’s “intimate” details in hundreds of photographs made throughout his career. These close-up views, from the anatomy of leaves to the murky crevice between rocks, are as captivating and inspiring as Adams's more celebrated majestic views. The December 6, 2013 Photo Friday at the Center for Creative Photography looks at some of these lesser-known but important works by Adams from the Center’s Ansel Adams Archive.
The Center will be offering guided exhibition tours with the opening of Charles Harbutt, Arrivals and Departures. Special tours are available on Friday, December 6 at 12:30pm and Friday, January 3 at 10:30am and 12:30pm. Please meet in the lobby for these 30-40 minute highlight tours with the Curator of Education.
Harold Jones: Every Picture Tells a Story
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Friday, January 20, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Photo Fridays: Edward Weston's Leaves of Grass
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, February 3, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Mary Virginia Swanson: Ansel Adams: Advocate for American Photography
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, March 1, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Photo Fridays: Frida Kahlo and her Circle
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, March 2, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Artist’s Talk and Book Signing: José Galvez
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Monday, March 19, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, March 29, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, April 6, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Lucy R. Lippard - Expecting the Unexpected: Women Artists and Climate Change
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Monday, April 9, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Kenneth D. Allan: Radio-Mastery of the Ether - Wallace Berman and Materiality in 1960s Los Angeles
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, April 12, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Kenneth D. Allan’s research focuses on the rise of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and has included the work and influence of Wallace Berman. A central figure in development of the postwar Los Angeles art world as the editor of the journal Semina, Berman’s work spanned the media of photography, collage, assemblage sculpture, and film. This talk will consider how his interest in the history of radio technology, Jewish mysticism and ideas of transmission and reception come together in his later work with stones and Hebrew lettering inspired by a prized 1923 book in his library, The Story of Modern Science Vol. IX: Radio-Mastery of the Ether. Kenneth Allan is Assistant Professor of Art History at Seattle University and received his MA and PhD from University of Chicago. His recent publications include essays for the Getty Museum catalog, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980.
Curator's Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, April 19, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Claudia Bohn-Spector will discuss the CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, that she co-curated with Sam Mellon. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Munich, Germany. A specialist in American art and culture, she has curated numerous fine art exhibitions, including a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. With Sam Mellon, she is currently working on a book-length study entitled WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975, for publication in 2013.
Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object Matter
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Luke Batten, Director of the Robert Heinecken Trust, will discuss the editing of a new monograph published by Riding House detailing Heinecken's artistic output from 1957-1997. The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950's and reassembled magazines created in the 1990's. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Heinecken's penchant for experimenting with photographic processes and materials. Batten is Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois. He received his MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, May 4, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Since photography’s inception, its practitioners have arranged people and objects in front of their cameras for both practical and aesthetic considerations. Investigations into framing, composition, allegory, and interpretation will be presented, as well as images that explore the camera’s ability to describe and transform shapes, textures, light, and shadow. This viewing will include work by Ruth Bernhard, Paul Caponigro, Margrethe Mather, Eadweard Muybridge, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Joel-Peter Witkin. Photo Friday is an exclusive look at the Center’s world-renowned fine art photograph collection. The first Friday of every month from 11:30am to 3:30pm, the public will be able to view original works of photographic art in our Print Study Room on the second floor. Without frame or glass, visitors can examine each photograph’s surface, see detail otherwise obscured by protective glass, and connect with the works on an intimate level. This is an extraordinary opportunity typically enjoyed by specialists. Expect to see collection highlights as well as surprising, lesser-known treasures that will help inform your knowledge of the history of photography, its techniques, and its practitioners. The works selected for Photo Friday will change every month, so we hope visitors will want to come back for Photo Fridays throughout the year.
Alice Sachs Zimet: So You Want to Collect Photography? Basics for the Beginner
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Alice Sachs Zimet
Thursday, August 23, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners (New York City), is a long time collector of fine art photography. She is a member of the Collections Committee of the Harvard Art Museums, the Board of the Magnum Foundation, and the International Center of Photography's Acquisitions Committee.
So You Want to Collect Photography? Basics for the Beginner
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Thursday, August 23, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners (New York City), is a long time collector of fine art photography. She is a member of the Collections Committee of the Harvard Art Museums, the Board of the Magnum Foundation, and the International Center of Photography's Acquisitions Committee. She will present on the basics of photography collection.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, September 7, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Photo Fridays offer an exclusive themed selection from the Center’s renowned collection of photographs – unframed for close inspection in the second floor viewing room – every month. The theme for September 7 will be Family, and will include work by Shelby Lee Adams, Joan Barker, Harry Callahan, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Graciela Iturbide, Mickey Pallas, Paul Strand, and Rosalind Solomon.
Photo Friday: Signs and Symbols
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, October 5, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Photo Fridays offer an exclusive themed selection from the Center’s renowned collection of photographs—unframed for close inspection in the second floor viewing room—every month. The theme for October 5 will be Signs and Symbols. Signs and symbols inhabit our daily lives as well as our memories. They are images, marks, and representations that evoke emotional responses while informing and recalling our existence. This viewing presents work by Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles Harbutt, Ann Parker, Kozo Miyoshi, Ralph Gibson, Marion Palfi, W. Eugene Smith, Aaron Siskind and Jeffrey Wolin.
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Danny Lyon
Friday, October 5, 2012
6:00pm
Free
On Friday, October 5, 2012, at 6:00 p.m., Lyon will screen his film, Murderers at the Center for Creative Photography. Murderers is a 30-minute documentary film about five murderers in three states, New York, Arkansas, and New Mexico.
Jeff Kida, From the Pages of Arizona Highways Magazine
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Jeff Kida
Thursday, October 11, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Jeff Kida, Photography Editor at Arizona Highways magazine, will share photographs from the popular publication.
Richard Misrach: Recent Projects
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Richard Misrach
Thursday, October 18, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Artist's talk and book signing by Richard Misrach. In the 1970s, exhibiting artist Richard Misrach helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing epic series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relation to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years. Recent projects include: Golden Gate, Richard Misrach, Aperture, Spring 2012; Petrochemical America, Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Aperture, Fall 2012; Destroy This Memory, Richard Misrach, Aperture, Fall 2010; and 1991, Richard Misrach, Blind Spot, Fall 2011. Misrach’s photographs are held in the collections of over fifty major institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Susan Meiselas: From the Field to the Archive -- Nicaragua to Kurdistan
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Susan Meiselas
Thursday, October 25, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Co-sponsored by the University of Arizona School of Art’s Visiting Artists, Scholars and Exhibitions (VASE) Program, Susan will present two seminal projects: Nicaragua and Kurdistan. Her work in Nicaragua spans 25 years, from the popular insurrection to a film that rediscovers the people in her photographs to an installation that brought images back to the landscape where they were first made. The Kurdistan project evolved from documenting the evidence of genocide and exile of the Kurdish people, to gathering a visual history that portrayed their desire for a homeland. Both bodies of work will be shown as they were presented in magazines, books and exhibition form.
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, November 2, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
Photo Friday offers an exclusive themed selection from the Center’s renowned collection of photographs—unframed for close inspection in the second floor viewing room—every month.
Death…whether encountered suddenly or after long anticipation, all humanity interprets and responds to the inevitable in very diverse ways. In honor of our local Día de los Muertos, this Photo Friday theme, and the images featured, capture the shock of sudden departures, the grieving of those left behind, the celebration of passage and the memorializing of those gone. This viewing presents these very personal moments as interpreted/captured through the lens of artists W. Eugene Smith, Weegee, Rosalind Solomon, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edward Weston, Danny Lyon, Flor Garduño, William Mortensen, Joel-Peter Wilkin, Graciela Iturbide, Ansel Adams, Cy Lehrer, Jerome Liebling, and Gail Scoff.
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe: Conversation and Book Signing
Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Speaker: Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
5:30pm
Free
Norton Family Curator Rebecca Senf will lead Klett and Wolfe in a discussion of their working process, their recent Grand Canyon project and book, and what’s on their horizon. The conversation will be followed by an opportunity to purchase the new book “Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.”
Photo Friday: A Sense of Place
Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Friday, December 7, 2012
11:30am to 3:30pm
Free
December’s Photo Friday presents work by three master photographers who have created extraordinary images of places that inspired them:
- Paul Caponigro’s spiritually moving photographs of Stonehenge explore individual standing stones and their position within the mysterious prehistoric monument as well as the site’s relationship to its surrounding landscape.
- Hiroshi Sugimoto’s luminous images of water and air offer an ultimate distilling of the form of photographic landscape. They include an intriguing range of interpretations from the realistic to the sublime.
- Near the end of his career, Paul Strand created poignantly beautiful images of his garden in Orgeval, France. While these images offer the directness and precise vision that is quintessentially Strand, they also take a metaphorical turn, reflecting on issues such as aging.