Past Event Landing Page
2018
Curator Tour of Heritage Gallery
Thursday, December 6, 2018
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Free
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Free
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Screening of "Wanderer" by Danny Lyon Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Thursday, November 15, 2018 This evening will feature a screening of Automatic on the Road and a reading and conversation with Ross Goodwin, Christiana Caro, and Lewis Rapkin. |
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Members' Experience: Passport to Paris Photo Monday, November 5, 2018 8:00am 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.
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An Evening with Jane and Michael Stern Thursday, October 25, 2018 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. |
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018 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. |
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The Hitch-Hiker Film Screening Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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.
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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! |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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A Conversation with Steve McCurry Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Members' Tour of Etherton Gallery Friday, July 27, 2018 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. |
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Thursday, June 28, 2018 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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
Celebrate the closing of Courting Failure, Embracing Risk: Mark Klett and Collaboration with a presentation by Mark Klett. |
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Members' Conservation Lab Tour Tuesday, April 17, 2018 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). |
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The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World - a Presentation by Damon Krukowski Speaker: Damon Krukowski
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. |
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Members' AIPAD New York Experience 2018 Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:00pm 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. |
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Friday, March 30, 2018 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. |
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The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Ansel Adams: Performing the Print Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery 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. |
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Ansel Adams Public Celebration Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery
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. |
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Public Lecture with Masao Yamamoto Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
2017
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Artifacts and Orbits—An Evening of Art & Science Inquiry Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Celebrate the contributions of Dr. John Schaefer & Tony Celentano Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Wynn Bullock: Revelations Public Lecture & Members' Reception Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Anne Breckenridge Barrett Appointed Director of the CCP Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:00am 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. |
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Kōzō Miyoshi: Middle of the Road Public Lecture Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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 |
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Member's Print Viewing & Reception for Kōzō Miyoshi: Middle of the Road Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room 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. |
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Lecture: Photograph / Viewer / Landscape: Revisiting the Reception of New Topographics, 1975 Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Center for Creative Photography Director Finalists Announced Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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 James Leventhal Anne Breckenridge Barrett |
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Screening of "Infiltrators" by Khaled Jarrar Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Vote for the Center in Museum Dance Off 4 TODAY! Monday, April 24, 2017 8:00am 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. |
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Gallery Talk: Longer Ways to Go Event Location: Phoenix Art Museum 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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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: Olivia Miller 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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Ansel Adams Birthday Celebration Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Gallery Saturday, February 18, 1:00-4:00 pm 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! |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium
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. |
2016
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Louis Carlos Bernal Print Viewing Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room 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." |
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Slant Rhymes: The Photographs of Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe Print Viewing Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room 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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
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Event Location: Volkerding Print Viewing Room 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! |
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Film Screening: "Kandahar Journals" by Louie Palu Event Location: Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 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. |
