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Through a landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum presents three annual exhibitions of photography to its community, drawn from the CCP’s unparalleled collection of historical and contemporary photography.

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About the Center for Creative Photography

The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona is recognized as one of the world’s finest academic art museums and study centers for the history of photography. The Center opened in 1975, following a meeting between the University President John Schaefer and Ansel Adams. Beginning with the archives of five living master photographers—Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer—the collection has grown to include 270 archival collections. Among these are some of the most recognizable names in 20th century North American photography: W. Eugene Smith, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. Altogether there are over eight million archival objects in the Center’s collection including negatives, work prints, contact sheets, albums, scrapbooks, correspondence, writings, audiovisual materials and memorabilia. In addition to whole archival collections the Center also actively acquires individual photographs by modern and contemporary photographers. There are currently more than 90,000 works by over 2,200 photographers. A library of books, journals, and exhibition and auction catalogs including many rare publications plus an extensive oral history collection complements the archival and fine print collections. The combined art, archival, and research collections at the Center provide an unparalleled resource for research, exhibitions, loans, and traveling exhibitions.

About the Partnership

In 2006, Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson inaugurated a highly innovative and unprecedented collaboration to bring the finest in photography to Phoenix Art Museum visitors. It established a vibrant new photography exhibition program at the Museum, while bringing the Center’s world-renowned collections to new and larger audiences.

One of the nation’s leading art museums, Phoenix Art Museum presents international exhibitions of the world’s great art and features a collection that spans the centuries and the globe – American, Asian, contemporary, European, Latin American, and Western American art, and fashion design.

Now, through the combined efforts of these two organizations, Phoenix Art Museum visitors can experience unparalleled excellence in the field of photography in the Museum’s Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography, curated by Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography Audrey Sands.

Collection Highlights

Joel

Scott Baxter, American, 2013, photograph, photograph, Museum purchase with funds provided by J.M. Kaplan Fund, New York and Men's Arts Council

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Caricia (Caress)

Mariana Yampolsky, Mexican, 1925 - 2002, 1989, photograph, gelatin silver print, Gift of David and Mary Patino

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Abandoned Railway Coach Car, Rodeo, New Mexico (Vagón de pasajeros de ferrocarril abandonado, Rodeo, Nuevo México)

Jay Dusard, American, born 1937, 2010, photograph (archival pigment print), Museum purchase with funds provided by Judith Regnier and Stanley Getch, Ginger K. Renner Western purchase fund and Men's Arts Council

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… and to draw a bright white line with light (Untitled 11.5) (… y dibujar una línea blanca brillante con luz [Sin título 11.5])

Uta Barth, American, born 1958 in Germany, 2011, photograph, triptych of inkjet prints face-mounted against matte acrylic, framed in painted aluminum frames, Museum purchase with funds provided by Contemporary Forum (ArtPick 2012)

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8 Dextram

Charles Clough, American, born 1951, 1983, enamel on color photograph, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services

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Abandoned Railway Coach Car, Rodeo, New Mexico (Vagón de pasajeros de ferrocarril abandonado, Rodeo, Nuevo México)

Jay Dusard, American, born 1937, 2010, photograph (archival pigment print), Museum purchase with funds provided by Judith Regnier and Stanley Getch, Ginger K. Renner Western purchase fund and Men's Arts Council

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Alacena (Cupboard)

Mariana Yampolsky, Mexican, 1925 - 2002, 1974, photograph, gelatin silver print, Gift of Latin American Art Alliance

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Barda de Yolotepec (Yolotepec Fence)

Mariana Yampolsky, Mexican, 1925 - 2002, 1993, photograph, gelatin silver print, Gift of Latin American Art Alliance

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Casa de maguey (Maguey House)

Mariana Yampolsky, Mexican, 1925 - 2002, 1994, photograph, gelatin silver print, Gift of Latin American Art Alliance

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EXHIBITIONS

On view for a limited time, exhibitions present art from across the centuries and the globe, from iconic fashion to Old Master paintings, contemporary photography to historical objects of Asia.

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COLLECTIONS

Featuring more than 20,000 objects, the collection spans the globe, bringing the world to our city, and our city to the world.

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ARIZONA ARTIST AWARDS

Since 1986, Phoenix Art Museum has awarded more than $350,000 to over 200 Arizona-based artists through two annual artist awards opportunities.

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