Center for Creative Photography
Legacies of Light – A Three Day Celebration
Center for Creative Photography 1030 North Olive Road, Tucson, AZ, United StatesRegister now for the CCP symposium Legacies of LIGHT. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery, this three-day, multi-faceted symposium uses the immense influence of LIGHT, a contemporary fine-art photography gallery that operated in the 1970's and 1980's, as a starting point for a larger discussion about photography.
Ansel Adams Birthday Celebration – Save The Date!
Center for Creative Photography 1030 North Olive Road, Tucson, AZ, United StatesCenter for Creative Photography's (CCP) annual birthday celebration for Ansel Adams is back! Join us to celebrate the release of Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams by CCP Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf
Postponed TBA: Making of a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams Book Talk & Signing with Dr. Rebecca A. Senf
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesOne of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. While many of Adams’s images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this first monograph dedicated to the beginnings of Adams’s career, Rebecca A. Senf contends that these early photographs are both crucial to understanding Adams’s artistic development and offer new insights into many aspects of the artist’s mature oeuvre.
Mark McKnight on Frederick Sommer, a Conversation with Audrey Sands (Virtual Event)
Virtual AZ, United StatesJoin Center for Creative Photography (CCP) March 25, 2021 at 5:30 PM (AZ) for a live conversation with award-winning photographer Mark McKnight and Dr. Audrey Sands, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography. This free virtual event will stream live on the Center's Youtube and Facebook pages. There is no registration required. McKnight and Sands will discuss the legacy of […]
Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesFreedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America, 1940-1978 will survey the career of Marion Palfi (1907–1978), who produced an important visual document of 20th-century American injustice.
Photojournalism 20/20: A Think Tank for an Unimaginable Present
Center for Creative Photography 1030 North Olive Road, Tucson, AZ, United StatesThe first activation of the Center for Creative Photography’s Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery was planned to be a close study of photojournalism, of how we can raise thoughtful, critical questions about the images in our news. Then 2020 swerved. Nearly overnight, photographs, together with videos and teleconferences, operated with renewed urgency. It was as […]