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6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24, 2019

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Ahead of the premier international art fair Paris Photo, and with a keen eye on the new Paris Photo New York, Presented with AIPAD in 2020, we discuss insights and practices in collecting photography today with a panel of collectors from across North America.

Why collect photography, and where to begin? How are collectors influenced, and when is it prudent to formulate collection strategies? What are the pressing conversations taking place about the market of photography? Although the seemingly more accessible of the mediums, photography is situated inside of a dense, oftentimes daunting, art market. The buying and selling of art has long crisscrossed auctions, fairs, dealers and galleries, and with the move into new digital and global territories, possibilities in collecting photography have greatly increased, and dramatically evolved.

“How to Create a Dynamic Collection of Photography in the 21st Century” shares invaluable, first-hand perspectives on the twenty-first century conditions for collecting photography and on investing in the photographic medium. We will discuss the significance of collecting to the artistic practices and cultural institutions like the Center. The panel session also promises to make collecting photography more accessible — and demonstrate why it is so worthwhile — to art enthusiasts and practitioners alike.

Panelists for this CCP Session include Paula Ely, Richard Laugharn, and Louie Palu, and moderating will be Anne Breckenridge Barrett, Director of the Center for Creative Photography, Associate Vice President for the Arts.

 

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6 p.m. April 11, 2019

The Center is excited to welcome Presidential Scholar David Hume Kennerly for a presentation on his career in photojournalism, including special focus on his body of work on Senator John McCain.  The presentation will be followed by a conversation between Kennerly and Center Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf. 

Kennerly has been a photographer on the front lines of history for six decades. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Feature Photography at the age of 25, and he later became the chief White House photographer during President Gerald R. Ford's administration. His body of work includes images from 12 presidential campaigns, several wars, including Vietnam, and many other significant historical moments. He was also a close friend of Ansel Adams.

The honorary Presidential Scholar appointment exemplifies the university's commitment to advancing the meaning and understanding of interdisciplinary work in the arts, humanities and social sciences – disciplines that are seen as critical to success in the emerging global economy.

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Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955,  ​ ​ © © The Richard Avedon Foundation , 
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6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. April 18, 2019

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Dennita Sewell, the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design for the Phoenix Art Museum, presents The Avedon Influence on the Fashion Image. As staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and then for Vogue, Avedon’s unique eye for style evolved the fashion image for more than four decades.  Sewell's talk will explore his groundbreaking work that took fashion photography out of the studio traditions and onto the streets.

 A Buffalo Exchange Fashion Show inspired by Richard Avedon: Relationships will follow, with clothing provided by Buffalo Exchange, and models and styling provided by UA Retailing and Consumer Sciences.  

CCP Members: Supporter level and above provided with reserved seating for the lecture portion of this event. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes prior to the event start time to claim your seats.
 

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6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. April 25, 2019

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

The Center for Creative Photography is pleased to welcome photographer Larry Fink for a talk focusing on his significant career and influential portfolio containing works in the fine art and editorial genres. 

​Besides working as a professional photographer for over fifty-five years, Larry Fink has had one-man shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art amongst others. On the European continent, he has had one-man shows at the Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Musee de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium. Recently, in the last three years, he had a traveling retrospective shown in six different Spanish museums. He was awarded the “Best of Show” for an exhibition curated by Christian Caujolle at the Arles Festival of Photograph in France. As far as being represented in group shows, the list is longer than the eye can see. Most recently, Larry has been awarded the 2015 International Center for Photography (ICP) Infinity Award for Lifetime Fine Art Photography. He has also been awarded two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowships. He has been teaching for over fifty-two years, with professorial positions held at Yale University, Cooper Union, and lastly at Bard College, where he is an honored professor. 

Larry’s first monograph, the seminal Social Graces (Aperture, 1984) left a lasting impression in the photographic community. There have been twelve other monographs with the subject matter crossing the class barrier in unexpected ways. Two of his most recently published books were on several “Best Of” lists of the year: The Beats published by Artiere /powerhouse andLarry Fink on Composition and Improvisation published by Aperture. His most recent book is Opening the Sky, published by Stanley / Barker. As an editorial photographer, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair have been amongst a long list of accounts.
 
Fink On Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s, features rare photographs of Andy Warhol and his friends at the Factory interspersed with street scenes and the political atmosphere of 1960s New York. Additionally, he is currently working on a massive retrospective book to be published by the University of Texas Press. Grafiche dell’Artiere in Bologna will make the exquisite prints for the book.

A members' dinner will be held after the lecture. RSVP via email here

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6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28, 2019

In conjunction with our exhibition Richard Avedon: Relationships, the Center is excited to welcome Paul Roth.

Paul Roth has over 25 years of experience working with some of the most important photography collections in North America. Previously, he served as Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; as Executive Director of The Richard Avedon Foundation in New York; and as archivist of the Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. He is co-author and co-editor of Gordon Parks: The Flàvio Story (Steidl, 2017), author and co-editor of Gordon Parks: Collected Works (Steidl, 2012), and author and editor of Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (Steidl/Corcoran, 2008).

View details about our members-only event here.

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5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 13, 2019

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Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Center for Creative Photography presents An Evening In Conversation with Ralph Gibson. This discussion with Gibson and CCP Director Anne Breckenridge Barrett will focus on Gibson’s career and highlight his 2018 autobiography Self Exposure. The evening will conclude with a book signing. Copies of Self-Exposure will be available for purchase. Admission is free.

Seating in the CCP auditorium is first-come, first-served. CCP Members at Supporter level and above are provided with reserved seating. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes prior to the event start time to claim your seats.

Ralph Gibson studied photography while in the US Navy and then at the San Francisco Art Institute (1960-62). He began his professional career as an assistant to Dorothea Lange and went on to work with Robert Frank on two films. Gibson has maintained a lifelong fascination with books and book making. In 1970 he published the famous trilogy of photo books: The Somnambulist, Deja-vu and Days at Sea. His most current book, The Black Trilogy reexamines these bodies of work. To date he has produced over 40 monographs. 

His photographs are included in over one hundred and fifty museum collections around the world, and have appeared in hundreds of exhibitions. Gibson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1975, 1986), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) Exchange, Berlin (1977), a New York State Council of the Arts (C.A.P.S.) fellowship (1977), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985). The Rencontres d'Arles festival presented his work in 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1989 and 1994. His book "Syntax" received a mention for the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award in 1983. He was decorated as an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1986) and appointed, Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2005) by the French government. 

His awards include: Leica Medal of Excellence Award (1988), "150 Years of Photography" Award, Photographic Society of Japan (1989), a Grande Medaille de la Ville d'Arles (1994) and the Lucie Award for lifetime achievement (2008). Gibson also received an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland (1991), and a second honorary doctorate from the Ohio Wesleyan University (1998).

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El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas,  1975, © ©️Danny Lyon,  Courtesy Etherton Gallery
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6 p.m. Nov. 16, 2018

Where

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 exhibtion at Etherton Gallery. The evening will also feature Lyon in conversation with Chief Curator Becky Senf.

Wanderer is the fourth in a series of films that began in 1971. It takes place in the town of Llanito, New Mexico, and updates the stories of members of the Sanchez and Jaramillo families, many of whom are also presented in the photographs on display at the gallery.

Seating is limited- please plan to arrive early. Reserved seats will be released 15 minutes prior to the screening. 

Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn during World War Two. When he was twenty-one he moved to Atlanta, and every couple years he moved further west, first to New Orleans, and then to East Texas. In 1970 he settled in a village called Llanito, near the town of Bernalillo, in the Rio Grand Valley in New Mexico. His work had taken him deeper and deeper into the heart land, what is now called “fly over country.” Like many artists before him he fell in love with the desert and stopped to build a home and raise a family. Meeting an undocumented worker named Eddie who was fleeing immigration, Lyon and Eddie built and adobe home. He also became Eddie’s coyote, helping to smuggle him each year across the border which was four hours from his home. He made a series of films centered on his neighbors in Llanito and Bernalillo, culminating  in “Willie” the end of the New Mexico trilogy.

In 2016 Lyon returned to Bernalillo to make a film. Using a small digital video camera that weighed a pound, he re-visited the Jaramillo family, focusing on Willie’s little brother Ferney, his sister Gloria, and his niece Janice. A neighbor, Dennis Baca lights the candles at the Lady of Sorrows Cemetery where Willie and Johnnie Sanchez are buried. Lyon’s dog Trip, an Australian Shepard appears alone, wandering through a gigantic auto junk yard, swimming the San Juan River, and eventually arriving at the New Mexico State Fair. Ferny and Dennis meet there, and as the carny photographer makes their portrait she asks “Are you two brothers?” Wanderer, done in the age of global warming, is a dark portrait of a small town done in a desert that is eternal.

 

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Steve McCurry, Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula), 1984 digital chromogenic print ©Steve McCurry, courtesy Etherton Gallery
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5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 7, 2018

Where

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.

Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania McCurry studied film at Penn. State University before going on to work for a local newspaper. After several years of freelance work, McCurry made his first of what would become many trips to India. Traveling with little more than a bag of clothes and another of film he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera. It was after several months of travel that he found himself crossing the border into Pakistan. There, he met a group of refugees from Afghanistan, who smuggled him across the border into their country, just as the Russian Invasion was closing the country to all Western journalists. Emerging in traditional dress with a full beard and weather-worn features after weeks embedded with the Mujahedeen, McCurry brought the world the first images of the conflict in Afghanistan, putting a human face to the issue on every masthead.

Since then, McCurry has gone on to create stunning images over six continents and countless countries. His work spans conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions, and contemporary culture alike - yet always retains the human element that made his celebrated image of the Afghan Girl such a powerful image.

McCurry is the recipient of some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, National Press Photographers Award, and an unprecedented four first prize awards from the World Press Photo contest. The Minister of French Culture has also appointed McCurry a Knight of the Orders of Arts and Letters, and recently the Royal Photographic Society in London awarded McCurry the Centenary Award for Lifetime Achievement. Steve McCurry has published sixteen books of his photographs among them: Afghanistan (2017); On Reading (2016); India (2015); From These Hands: A Journey Along the Coffee Trail (2015); Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs (2013); and The Iconic Photographs (2011).

This lecture is in conjunction with Etherton Gallery's exhibition The Unguarded Moment, featuring photos by McCurry of Asia and the Middle East. 

Image: Steve McCurry, Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula), 1984, digital chromogenic print ©Steve McCurry, courtesy Etherton Gallery

 

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Damon Krukowski
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5:30 p.m. April 11, 2018

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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Gordon Bushaw and Mark Klett, LEFT: Green River Buttes, Green River, Wyoming, 1872 (Timothy O’Sullivan) RIGHT: Castle Rock, Green River, Wyoming, 1979 (Mark Klett and Gordon Bushaw)
Gordon Bushaw and Mark Klett, LEFT: Green River Buttes, Green River, Wyoming, 1872 (Timothy O’Sullivan) RIGHT: Castle Rock, Green River, Wyoming, 1979 (Mark Klett and Gordon Bushaw),  1872, 1979,  ​ ​ Collection Center for Creative Photography
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5:30 p.m. April 26, 2018

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Celebrate the closing of Courting Failure, Embracing Risk: Mark Klett and Collaboration with a presentation by Mark Klett. Klett is a photographer interested in making new works that respond to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. Klett’s work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty-five years, and his work is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of fifteen books. Klett lives in Tempe, Arizona where he is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University.

CCP Members- please join us for a Members Only gallery tour with Mark Klett and CCP Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf at 4:00 pm. RSVP for the tour to ccp-events@email.arizona.edu

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