Archive Desktop Wallpapers

Add some CCP inspo to your tech life with our new, monthly desktop wallpaper series!

01. Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Click here to download the above Louise-Dahl Wolfe desktop wallpaper!

Our first #CCPDesktop wallpaper features Louise Dahl-Wolfe herself!

Image: Inverted negatives of Louise Dahl-Wolfe in her archive, AG 76.

02. Lola Álvarez Bravo

Click here to download the above Lola Álvarez Bravo desktop wallpaper!

Our second #CCPDesktop wallpaper features the work of Lola Álvarez Bravo!

Images:
(Left) Negative from the Lola Álvarez Bravo Archive, AG 154.
(Right) CCP Digital Imaging Unit's positive scan, Lola Álvarez Bravo Archive, AG 154.

03. Edward Weston

Click here to download the above Edward Weston desktop wallpaper!

Our third #CCPDesktop wallpaper pairs a digital tracing from statements found in Edward Weston's daybooks with a negative from his archive!

Image: Inverted scan of negative from Edward Weston archive

04. Mike Mandel

Click here to download the above Mike Mandel desktop wallpaper!

Our fourth #CCPDesktop wallpaper features a grid of digitized images from uncut sets of trading cards with popular photographers posing as baseball players!

Image: Mike Mandel, Baseball Photographer Trading Cards, 1975, Purchase, © Mike Mandel

05. Hansel Mieth & Otto Hagel

Click here to download the above Hansel Mieth & Otto Hagel desktop wallpaper!

Our fifth #CCPDesktop wallpaper features a pair of photographs by Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel, along with some handwritten questions they posed in an unpublished manuscript from their archive!

Images: 
(Left) Hansel Mieth & Otto Hagel, Otto, Hansel, Uhuru and the cattle - the pond we built in 1965 after the 1964 fire, 1965-1966, Hansel Mieth/Otto Hagel Archive, © Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation
(Right) Hansel Mieth & Otto Hagel, Hansel works on the county road, 1950s, Hansel Mieth/Otto Hagel Archive, © Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation