Exhibitions

9 a.m. June 12, 2021 to 11:59 p.m. July 11, 2021

The School of Art 2020 MFA Thesis Alumni Exhibition is proud to honor the achievements of their Master of Fine Arts graduates from 2020.

5 p.m. June 26, 2020 to 5 p.m. Nov. 6, 2020

Photographs as Letters explores the exchange of photographic materials sent through postal mail among twentieth-century American photographic communities. 

5 p.m. March 9, 2020 to 5 p.m. March 21, 2020

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly has documented momentous events and people including politicians, entertainment figures and a space shuttle liftoff. A pop-up exhibition of 25 of his prints are on display at Main Gate Square and inside the Tucson Marriott University Park hotel.

5 p.m. Feb. 28, 2020 to 5 p.m. June 26, 2020

This exhibition presents twenty-two photographs, illustrating three elements in Adams's body of work: his signature style, the shift in style in 1941, and his commercial work. 

5 p.m. Jan. 10, 2020 to 5 p.m. May 9, 2020

Twentieth-century American photographer Ansel Adams famously said that the photographic negative is like a composer’s score, and the print a performance.  Drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive, at the Center for Creative Photography, housed in Tucson at the University of Arizona, this exhibition illustrates Adams’s meaning.  

5 p.m. May 31, 2019 to 5 p.m. Nov. 22, 2019

The Center for Creative Photography and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona are delighted to collaborate to exhibit a captivating project by B.A. Van Sise in a celebration of the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth. Van Sise is a New York–based photographer with a lifelong love of poetry and a family lineage that traces back to seminal American poet Walt Whitman. Van Sise has undertaken an expansive and inventive poetry portraiture project. Beginning in 2015, he embarked on a quest to make portraits of American poets that reflect the diversity and vitality of today’s poetry scene. Each portrait is a creative endeavor in which the poet becomes more an actor than a model, performing a concept Van Sise has created based upon one of the author’s poems. These narratives sometimes relate closely to the text (which is presented alongside the photograph), while at other times the connection is more abstract. The resulting “portraits” are at once a likeness of the poet, an evocation of the poem, and a presentation of a visual narrative fashioned by the photographer. 

5 p.m. May 10, 2019 to 5 p.m. Nov. 29, 2019

Weston’s photographs are presented in dialogue with recent acquisitions or lesser-known, never-before-exhibited works from the Center for Creative Photography’s permanent collection. 

5 p.m. Feb. 22, 2019 to 5 p.m. May 3, 2019

Taking the book as its template Ansel Adams: Examples draws upon the Center for Creative Photography’s collection of Adams’ work to realize the premise of “Examples” with original prints and archival materials. Paired with text from the book, written by Adams himself, the exhibition affords viewers and unprecedented opportunity to familiarize themselves with the intricacies of Adams’ work.

 

5 p.m. Dec. 14, 2018 to 5 p.m. May 10, 2019

Drawn from the Richard Avedon collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Richard Avedon: Relationships presents eighty portrait and fashion photographs – ranging from the 1950s to the early 2000s – including examples of Avedon’s large-scale prints. The exhibition will explore three kinds of “relationships” in Avedon’s life and work: the interactions between the figures within the frame, the partnerships Avedon formed with longstanding subjects, and importantly, the relationship between Richard Avedon and the Center for Creative Photography.

5 p.m. June 8, 2018 to 5 p.m. Jan. 11, 2019

Inspired by the Center’s legacy, the Heritage Gallery features iconic treasures from the collection alongside more recent acquisitions. The story of the Center is told through pairings and groupings of images that explore the relationships between contemporary practice and the photographic foundations that inspired them. The gallery will be rotated twice a year, offering visitors a chance to make new discoveries, sparking inquiry and dialogue. 

5 p.m. June 8, 2018 to 5 p.m. Nov. 23, 2018

Longer Ways to Go: Photography of the American Road delves deep into the complex dialogue that photography can enter into with a subject dear to many. This exhibition explores the symbiotic relationship between photography and the folklore of the American highway, including the emblematic Route 66. Longer Ways juxtaposes photographs from different eras, exploring themes related to travel, ideals of small-town life, the national heritage of westward expansion, and personal freedom. This exhibition made its debut at the Phoenix Art Museum, and comes to the Center’s Gallery in an expanded form with new photographs and acquisitions.

Noon Feb. 17, 2018 to 4 p.m. May 20, 2018

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.

5 p.m. Dec. 22, 2017 to 5 p.m. May 19, 2018

This exhibition, featuring photographs from several projects and bodies of work, including the Rephotographic Survey Project, Water in the West, Third View, Yosemite In Time, and as yet unexhibited work from Lake Powell, will explore Klett’s creative practice and the ways that working with others expanded his artistic contributions to the field. 

5 p.m. Dec. 1, 2017 to 5 p.m. April 14, 2018

The Logic of the Copy will examine the ways in which photography’s marriage to printmaking contributed to the ubiquity of photographic images and gave rise to a lexicon that was adopted—and adapted—by successive generations of artists.

5 p.m. July 7, 2017 to 5 p.m. Nov. 24, 2017

This exhibition presents three bodies of work from contemporary photographers that use the medium to reveal something invisible to eye, and will bring breadth of context to the Center’s presentation of Wynn Bullock: Revelations.

5 p.m. May 12, 2017 to 5 p.m. Nov. 24, 2017

Representing the most comprehensive assessment of photographer Wynn Bullock’s (American, 1902-1975) extraordinary career in nearly forty years, "Wynn Bullock: Revelations" surveyes through more than 100 prints, from his early experimental work of the 1940s, through the mysterious black-and-white imagery of the 1950s and color light abstractions of the 1960s, to his late metaphysical photographs of the 1970s.

5 p.m. April 14, 2017 to 5 p.m. Oct. 14, 2017

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. This exhibition is presented in the Doris and John Norton Gallery at the Phoenix Art Museum. 

5 p.m. Sept. 23, 2016 to 5 p.m. April 28, 2017

The INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published PhotoBooks includes 151 self-made contemporary photobooks selected by a jury of seven industry professionals.  Jurors reviewed nearly 300 submissions and selected those photobooks that exhibited thoughtful design, sophisticated relationships of image and text, innovation in the book form, or all these characteristics.  The range of subject matter and approach to book making is so varied, there is sure to be something for everyone.  Books will be displayed on tables to allow exhibition visitors to handle, read, and explore them, a first within the Center’s University of Arizona galleries.