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 […]
read moreJoin conservators at CCP in “trees stir in their leaves” to talk about different technologies used to make the photographs displayed in this exhibition. Look at study collection examples and other discovery materials which illustrate common materials and techniques of photography. Conservators will also be on hand to discuss concerns relating to condition and the […]
read moreThe question of the photographed subject presents a central ethical and political challenge today that is invariably bound up with centuries of image production, with the lenses through which we have constructed ourselves and another’s self. [Due to unforeseen circumstances, we regret to inform you that the Thursday, Oct. 27, event at the Center for […]
read moreZig Jackson will speak on The Photographic Journey of Rising Buffalo, a program collaboratively presented by the Andrew Smith Gallery and the Center for Creative Photography. A longtime gallery artist Zig Jackson, also named Rising Buffalo, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) and the first Native American photographer to be awarded […]
read moreA scientific, artistic look at trees from the Center for Creative Photography and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, beginning Feb. 5.
read moreIn the decades following World War II, numerous radical Japanese photographers undertook an aggressive reassessment of the medium. These new non-conformist photographers broke from photojournalism’s norms of objective description and instead adopted a radically expressive, subjective, and critical approach in response to a changing modern world. Publishing in avant-garde zines and underground artists’ journals, their […]
read moreThe Center for Creative Photography (CCP) and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) will stage installations together that follow historical, cultural, and scientific narratives inspired by trees. “To find the wealth of information trees have to share,” writes paleoclimatologist Dr. Valerie Trouet in Tree Story, “we must simply learn how to look.” Trees Stir in their Leaves With […]
read more“From the Front Page to the Archive: How Photojournalism Helps Shape Civic Life” is a five-week, live, online course, offered by the Center for Creative Photography in partnership with Arizona Arts and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences as part of the SBS’ Community Classroom program. The course meets Wednesdays from 4-6p, beginning Oct. […]
read moreArizona Arts launches ‘Signature Series,’ a new series showcases the division’s most compelling, engaging arts events on and off campus.
read moreThe Center for Creative Photography is hosting the CCP Open House on Sept. 23 with extended, evening hours from noon to 7p. Free to the public. Explore CCP and enjoy pop-up installations, music, grab and go food and art activities, and more! Check out our newly designed Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery, front patio, and first-floor library nook. On-View: Photojournalism […]
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