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Center for Creative Photography

The Center has one of the biggest photographic collections in the world. Located on the University of Arizona campus, the Center offers rotating exhibitions, a photography library, reservations for print viewing from the collection and opportunities for a scholarly study of photographers archives.

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    Center for Creative Photography

    1030 North Olive Street
    Tucson, AZ 85717

    Phone: (520) 621-7970   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    03/24/12- 06/17/12

    Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 Center for Creative Photography Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 24-June 17, 2012 This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.

    03/24/12- 06/19/12

    Permanent Collection Exhibition Center for Creative Photography Permanent Collection Exhibition Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 24-June 19, 2012 Curated by Ansel Adams Intern River Bullock, and presented in conjunction with Speaking in Tongues, this group of works from the Center's collection illustrates Los Angeles photography from 1890s-1990s, including photographs by William Henry Jackson, Margrethe Mather, Garry Winogrand, and Catherine Opie.

  • Upcoming Events

    08/18/12- 11/25/12

    Made in Arizona: Photographs from the Collection Center for Creative Photography Made in Arizona: Photographs from the Collection Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography August 18-November 25, 2012 To celebrate the Arizona Centennial, the Center for Creative Photography will present a selection created in the state during the twentieth century. Encompassing a range of subjects and genres, the exhibition will highlight the diverse photographs produced in Arizona. Some of these artists spent time in the state because of great Arizona photographic institutions, including higher educational programs, Arizona Highways magazine, and the Center for Creative Photography itself.

    12/14/12- 03/10/13

    The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 Center for Creative Photography The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography December 14, 2012-March 10, 2013 From 1957 to 1965, famed photographer W. Eugene Smith documented the late- night soirees inside a dilapidated New York City loft where some of the jazz world's greatest legends casually performed and mingled with the likes of Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and crowds full of colorful underground characters. Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at the loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career. He photographed the...

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  • Current Events

    03/24/12- 06/17/12

    Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 Center for Creative Photography Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 24-June 17, 2012 This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.

    03/24/12- 06/19/12

    Permanent Collection Exhibition Center for Creative Photography Permanent Collection Exhibition Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 24-June 19, 2012 Curated by Ansel Adams Intern River Bullock, and presented in conjunction with Speaking in Tongues, this group of works from the Center's collection illustrates Los Angeles photography from 1890s-1990s, including photographs by William Henry Jackson, Margrethe Mather, Garry Winogrand, and Catherine Opie.

  • Upcoming Events

    08/18/12- 11/25/12

    Made in Arizona: Photographs from the Collection Center for Creative Photography Made in Arizona: Photographs from the Collection Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography August 18-November 25, 2012 To celebrate the Arizona Centennial, the Center for Creative Photography will present a selection created in the state during the twentieth century. Encompassing a range of subjects and genres, the exhibition will highlight the diverse photographs produced in Arizona. Some of these artists spent time in the state because of great Arizona photographic institutions, including higher educational programs, Arizona Highways magazine, and the Center for Creative Photography itself.

    12/14/12- 03/10/13

    The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 Center for Creative Photography The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 Presented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography December 14, 2012-March 10, 2013 From 1957 to 1965, famed photographer W. Eugene Smith documented the late- night soirees inside a dilapidated New York City loft where some of the jazz world's greatest legends casually performed and mingled with the likes of Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and crowds full of colorful underground characters. Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at the loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career. He photographed the...

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  • Past Events

    04/24/12	Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object Matter Center for Creative Photography
    04/19/12	Curators' Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon Center for Creative Photography
    04/12/12	Kenneth D. Allan: Radio-Mastery of the Ether: Wallace Berman and Materiality in 1960s Los Angeles Center for Creative Photography
    04/09/12	Lucy R. Lippard: Weather Report Center for Creative Photography
    03/29/12	Artist's Talk: Carter Mull Center for Creative Photography
    03/27/12	Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison Center for Creative Photography
    03/19/12	Artist's Talk and Book Signing: Jose Galvez Center for Creative Photography
    03/02/12	Photo Fridays: Frida Kahlo and her Circle Center for Creative Photography
    03/01/12	Mary Virginia Swanson: Ansel Adams: Advocate for American Photography Center for Creative Photography
    02/20/12	Anthropogeomorphological Extrapolations - The Center for Land Use Interpretation on the Ground Center for Creative Photography
    02/03/12	Photo Fridays: Edward Weston's Leaves of Grass Center for Creative Photography
    01/30/12	Josiah McElheny Center for Creative Photography
    01/20/12	Harold Jones: Every Picture Tells a Story Center for Creative Photography
    01/06/12	Photo Fridays Center for Creative Photography
    12/10/11- 03/04/12	Ansel Adams: The View from Here Center for Creative Photography
    11/09/11	Randy Efros on Brett Weston Center for Creative Photography
    10/30/11	Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel Center for Creative Photography
    10/27/11	Water in the West Project and Archive Center for Creative Photography
    10/22/11	Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History 1955 to the Present Center for Creative Photography
    10/13/11	Composing in a Creative Continuum Center for Creative Photography
    08/20/11- 11/17/11	Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography Center for Creative Photography
    05/21/11- 09/04/11	Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence Center for Creative Photography
    05/09/11	Ansel Adams: A Personal Recollection Center for Creative Photography
    04/08/11	The Curatorial Perspective Center for Creative Photography
    02/28/11	Photography and Power Center for Creative Photography
    02/25/11- 02/26/11	Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico Center for Creative Photography
    02/24/11	Artist's Talk: Emmet Gowin Center for Creative Photography
    02/03/11	The Famous, The Infamous, The Anonymous: A History of Portraiture in Photography Center for Creative Photography
    01/27/11	The Curatorial Perspective Center for Creative Photography
    01/20/11	John Schaefer Remembers Ansel Adams Center for Creative Photography
    12/28/10- 05/15/11	Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture Center for Creative Photography
    12/28/10- 05/15/11	Ansel Adams: Arizona and the West Center for Creative Photography
    11/04/10	Artist's Talk: Barbara Kasten Center for Creative Photography
    10/29/10	Kenneth Shorr Center for Creative Photography
    10/14/10	Artist's Talk: Chris McCaw Center for Creative Photography
    10/07/10	Artists' Talk and Book Signing: The State of Ata Center for Creative Photography
    09/04/10- 11/28/10	The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography Center for Creative Photography
    08/23/10- 11/28/10	Wynn Bullock: Color Light Abstractions Center for Creative Photography
    10/23/09- 01/31/10	John Gutmann - The Photographer at Work Center for Creative Photography
    10/02/09	Artist's Talk Center for Creative Photography
    09/23/09	Working with Mapplethorpe Center for Creative Photography
    09/09/09	Gallery Walk - Gordon Baldwin Center for Creative Photography
    07/04/09- 10/04/09	Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits Center for Creative Photography
    03/27/09- 06/21/09	Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor Center for Creative Photography

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