1. Graciela Iturbide Artist Talk

    Graciela Iturbide, one of Mexico’s most celebrated photographers, will present an Artist Talk at the Center for Creative Photography, discussing her 50+ year career in photography. The event is co-hosted by Etherton Gallery with interpretation by Jaime Fatás Cabeza. On Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, from 7-10p, there will be an opening reception at Etherton Gallery for Graciela […]

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  2. On “The Golden Age,” with Alanna Airitam and Kirsten Imani Kasai

    Photographer Alanna Airitam and author Kirsten Imani Kasai discuss the experience of being photographed as a subject for The Golden Age and the dynamics of race, identity, belonging, and colorism as it pertains to this photographic series as well as their independent works of art and literature. The conversation will be held in the Center Galleries. Seating […]

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  3. Exposing Muybridge by Marc Shaffer

    Brilliant, ambitious, and mischievous, the 19th-century San Francisco photographer Eadweard Muybridge lived the lives of a dozen men before his breakthrough photographs of running horses set the course for the development of cinema and transformed the camera into a machine of unmatched perception and persuasion.  But hiding in Muybridge’s work are clues that provoke an enduring question: Can we believe what we see in a photograph? Program Schedule: 5p … Print viewing of CCP collection materials, […]

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  4. Photography and Taiwan

    The new School of Art symposium on photography in Asian continues April 7-9 virtually with “Photography and Taiwan: History and Practice.” Organized by the School of Art Assistant Professor Dr. Jeehey Kim, the symposium includes numerous photography curators and historians from such institutions as National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, […]

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  5. Alanna Airitam: The Golden Age

    Alanna Airitam’s photographic project, “The Golden Age” celebrates a vision of Black Americans that is uplifting, inspiring, and empowering.  In 10 luscious and elegant large-scale portraits, the artist features contemporary African Americans as symbolic saints who are simultaneously magnificent and powerful.   The title refers to an era of portrait painting when Dutch Old Masters like Rembrandt […]

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  6. CCP Front Porch Book Sale

    Stop by CCP’s front porch book sale while you’re visiting the Tucson Festival of Books! The Center has reorganized our spaces over the last year to prepare for exciting renovations to our collection storage and upgrades to our Volkerding Study Center, and that means lots of new and used books need new homes. We will have […]

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