The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

 (Tucson) campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston

Edward Weston

Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...

, Harry Callahan and Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand was a street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid-20th century. John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation....

, as well as a collection of over 80,000 images representing more than 2,000 photographers. The center also houses the archives for Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....

, including all negatives known to exist at the time of his death. The CCP collects, preserves, interprets, and makes available materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history.

Ansel Adams was among the founders of the Center. In 1989, the CCP relocated to its current 55000 square feet (5,109.7 m²) location, which is part of the University's Fine Arts Complex.

The CCP is dedicated to photography as an art form. Among the photographers represented in the Center's art collection are Lola Alvarez Bravo

Lola Alvarez Bravo

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, Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...

, Josef Breitenbach

Josef Breitenbach

Josef Breitenbach was a photographer whose manipulated images and stark photographs were part of the Surrealistic movement.-Early life:...

, Dean Brown

Dean Brown

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, Wynn Bullock

Wynn Bullock

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, Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Emma Augusta Dahl was a noted American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.-Background:...

, Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger

Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was a German American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and studies of the structure of natural objects....

, William Mortensen

William Mortensen

William Mortensen was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style.-Early life:...

, Marion Palfi, Aaron Siskind

Aaron Siskind

Aaron Siskind was an American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered...

, W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith

William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.- Life and work :...

, Frederick Sommer

Frederick Sommer

Frederick Sommer , was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University where he met Frances Elisabeth Watson whom he married in 1928; they had no children...

, Peter Stackpole

Peter Stackpole

Peter Stackpole was an American photographer. Along with Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, and Thomas McAvoy, he was one of Life Magazine's first staff photographers. He won a George Polk Award in 1954 and taught photography at the Academy of Art University. He also wrote a column in U.S....

, Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen

Edward J. Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface...

, Paul Strand

Paul Strand

Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...

, Tseng Kwong Chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Tseng Kwong Chi Tseng Kwong Chi Tseng Kwong Chi ((chin. 曾廣智, * 1950 in Hong Kong; † 10 March 1990 in New York) was a photographer who was active in the East Village art scene in the 1980's...

, and Laura Volkerding.

The gallery at the CCP is open to the public and features an ever-changing exhibit.

Beyond the exhibition program the CCP also offers educational programs, a library, a museum store, as well as fellowships and internships (open to students of the University of Arizona) with public access to its collection through its PrintViewing program.

External links

• The Center for Creative Photography web site