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  2. Farewell Photography

    In 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 […]

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  3. Trees Stir in their Leaves

    The 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 […]

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  4. Community Classroom: From the Front Page to the Archive

    “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. […]

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  6. CCP Open House

    The 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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  7. Photojournalism 20/20

    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” […]

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  8. Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America

    Freedom 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, […]

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  10. CCP Instagram series highlights student photographic work

    Did 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 […]

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