The first activation of the Center for Creative Photography’s 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 though “lens-based culture” […]
read moreFreedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America is a retrospective exhibition surveys the career of Marion Palfi (1907–1978), who produced one of the most important visual documents of American injustice of the 20th century. The exhibition features over 100 prints and numerous archival materials drawn exclusively from the Center for Creative Photography’s vast Marion Palfi Archive, […]
read moreCenter for Creative Photography receives a $255,000 Luce Foundation grant to fund an exhibition featuring the work of Louis Carlos Bernal.
read moreDid you know that there are photographers everywhere you look in the College of Fine Arts? From theatre and music majors and photography majors themselves, many students find photography to be a fantastic creative outlet. Maryan Hassan, a junior at Arizona, decided to find a way to allow students of any major or discipline an […]
read moreIn the spring of 2020, a talented group of MFA graduates lost the opportunity to display their thesis artworks in exhibition in a physical gallery setting due to the pandemic. This spring we are going to run it back with the 2020 MFA Thesis Alumni Exhibition. The School of Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art […]
read morePhotography, Maps, Big Data, and Visualization Join us on April 29, 2021 at 6:00 PM (AZ), presented in collaboration with the Center for Digital Society and Data Studies and the School of Information. This free virtual with Dr. Lev Manovich event will stream live on the Center’s YouTube and Facebook pages. There is no registration required. Printers, photographers, filmmakers, and geographers […]
read moreCCP Members, join us for this new monthly member series that will ask CCP Curators to explore one image from their essays written for the Center’s current virtual exhibition Finding Meaning: An Offering of Photographs for an Uncertain Time. They will discuss their chosen image and their essay in depth with members. Click the links below […]
read moreIn a historical moment when photography is increasingly central to the way we see and experience the world around us, the Center for Creative Photography welcomes you to reflect with us about Why Photography? In this virtual program, CCP poses this single, fundamental question to members of the photographic community, to explore how photography participates […]
read moreThe Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery, a groundbreaking space for programming, education, and exhibition, marks the first physical expansion of CCP’s on-site gallery space in over 20 years.
read moreMembers, join us for this new monthly CCP member series that will ask CCP Curators to explore one image from their essays written for the Center’s current virtual exhibition Finding Meaning: An Offering of Photographs for an Uncertain Time. They will discuss their chosen image and their essay in depth with members. January 12: Dr. Meg […]
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