With 235 archives and over 90,000 fine prints, the Center For Creative photography in Tucson is the most important photographic archive in the United States. Pick a subject, almost any subject. You can produce not just one, but multiple books at the highest artistic level from the Center’s extraordinarily deep holdings.
How about portraits? The list of photographers is a who’s who of American photography including: Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Josef Breitenbach, Nancy Burson, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Elliott Erwitt, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, Margaret Mather, Hans Namuth, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Sommer, Lynn Stern, Edward Weston and Garry Winogrand.
Under the direction of the brilliant Katharine Martinez, the Center has expanded it’s museum functions by forming strategic alliances with important international museums to create exhibitions largely drawn from the Center’s rich collections.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery in Washington organized the first of these exhibitions, Garry Winogrand. It will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and to the Jeu de Paume during Paris Photo 2014, with a final stop at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid.
Ansel Adams and John Schaefer, then President of University of Arizona, founded the Center for Creative Photography in 1975. Trained as a chemist, Schaefer made the then startlingly radical prediction that, “The history of the 20th Century will be written in photographs.”
John Schaefer was right. And there is not better place to experience and understand the history of the American Century than at the Center for Creative Photography.
Peter C. Jones
Center for Creative Photography
1030 North Olive Road
P.O. Box 210103
Tucson, AZ 85721-0103
USA
