TUCSON, Ariz. — The Center for Creative Photography is celebrating its 50th anniversary with "Picture Party: Celebrating the Collection at 50." The exhibition opens May 3 and includes photographs by renowned artists, including CCP co-founder Ansel Adams, Susan Meiselas, Harry Callahan and Graciela Iturbide, among many others.
"Picture Party" is designed to create "visual conversations" across time and place, such as a display of landscape photographs spanning nearly a century and a wall of more than 20 portraits that connect people, locations, cultures and eras.
Archival objects will also be on display, including tools Adams used to create prints, a helmet worn by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly during his coverage of the Vietnam War, and a 19th-century daguerreotype – one of the earliest photographs in the CCP's collection.
The exhibition runs May 3 to Dec. 20 in the center's Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery.
The Center for Creative Photography was co-founded in 1975 by Adams and the university's president at the time, John Schaefer. It holds 300 archival collections and more than 120,000 works by over 2,200 photographers.
The following representatives from the Center for Creative Photography available for interviews at the preview.
- Todd J. Tubutis, Director
- Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator
- Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator
- Emily Una Weirich, Associate Archivist and Public Services Manager
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