 | Jo Ann Callis, Performance, 1985, ©Jo Ann Callis
Performance will be featured in the upcoming exhibition of contemporary photographs from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, opening at the Center for Creative Photography August 9, 2014. | |
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Letter from the Director
June 2014
The Volkerding Study Center is full during this time of year, when researchers can escape from their jobs and immerse themselves in the Archives. The air conditioning is very efficient for the sake of the collections, so we always urge visiting researchers to bring sunglasses and a hat for the outdoors, and a heavy sweater for indoors. Downstairs in the currently "dark" gallery we are preparing for the opening of an exciting, lively exhibition of contemporary photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection that will open on August 9. This exhibition will feature works by Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Jo Ann Callis, Nan Goldin, Anthony Hernandez, Martin Kippenberger, Duane Michals, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith, all from the personal collection of choreographer and University of Arizona School of Dance Professor Douglas Nielsen. These images are part of a planned gift to the Center from Mr. Nielsen.
Throughout the building there is an intense hum of activity. Staff are putting the finishing touches on a new searchable online portal on our website that will be launched in early fall, and will provide digital public access to the Center's fine print collection. Exhibition preparators are about to crate over 250 photographs by Aaron Siskind for an retrospective curated by Gilles Mora that will open at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier France in November 2014. The exhibition will be accompanied by a book published in French and English by Hazan and the University of Texas Press. Staff are also preparing over one hundred photographs for an exhibition opening in 2015 entitled Land Meets Water curated by Peter Galassi for the Artipelag Museum in Gustavsberg, Sweden. This summer we hope you will have an opportunity to see three major exhibitions on the East Coast drawn from CCP collections. In New York City, Garry Winogrand is traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will be on view between June 27 and September 21, while Robert Heinecken: Object Matter at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Eva Respigni, will be on view through September 7. In Atlanta, Wynn Bullock: Revelations, curated by Brett Abbott, will be on view at the High Museum between June 14, 2014 and January 18, 2015. Lastly, closer to home at the Phoenix Art Museum is a very handsome exhibition curated by Rebecca Senf, The Process and the Page: Developing Photographic Books, currently on view until August 17.
Katharine Martinez, PhD, Director
martinezk@ccp.arizona.edu
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 | Wynn Bullock, Barbara Through Window
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| Wynn Bullock: Revelations
High Museum of Art
June 14, 2014 – January 18, 2015
The High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography is mounting the first major retrospective of work by the photographer Wynn Bullock (1902-1975). Bullock was one of the five founders of the Center along with Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. The exhibition Wynn Bullock: Revelations is curated by Brett Abbott, Keough Family Curator of Photography and Head of Collections, and coincides with a major gift to the High from the Bullock Estate of a large collection of vintage photographs, making the High one of the most significant repositories of Bullock's work in the country. The retrospective traces Bullock’s evolution from his early experimental work of the 1940s, through the mysterious black-and-white imagery of the 1950s and the color light abstractions of the 1960s, to his late metaphysical photographs of the 1970s. Featuring more than 100 black-and-white and color works by Bullock, the exhibition will be on view at the High Museum June 14, 2014 through January 18, 2015. Accompanying the exhibition is a book published by University of Texas Press presenting 110 images, including some from the Bullock estate that have never been published before. An essay by Brett Abbott explores the nuances of Bullock’s approach to photography and its relationship to the history of science and philosophy, complemented by contributions by Barbara Bullock-Wilson and Maria L. Kelly. More info.
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The Process and The Page: Developing Photographic Books
March 29 – August 17, 2014 In the 20th century, American photographer Ansel Adams adopted the book form as a way to organize, disseminate, and promote his artwork. Adams took a keen interest in every aspect of the books’ production and design from sequence and typestyle to reproduction quality and pricing. Process and The Page presents working materials from the Center for Creative Photography’s archives to demonstrate how Ansel Adams, and nine other photographers including Richard Avedon, Paul Strand, Rosalind Solomon, and W. Eugene Smith, explored this essential means of preserving and presenting their body of work. More info.
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Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection
August 9, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Over 100 images from the personal collection of University of Arizona School of Dance Professor Douglas Nielsen represent 60 prominent fine art photographers including Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Nancy Burson, Jo Ann Callis, Jimmy DeSana, Nan Goldin, Philippe Halsman, Duane Michals, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, and Joel Peter-Witkin.
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| TRAVELING WORKS & COLLABORATIONS
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The Center's art and archive collections are featured in the following current and upcoming exhibitions:
Vanishing Ice
El Paso Museum of Art
Jun. 1 – Aug. 24, 2014
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Toronto, Canada
Oct. 11, 2014 – Jan. 11, 2015
More info at vanishing-ice.org
Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawai’i Pictures
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
Feb. 1 – Sep. 30, 2014
Robert Heinecken: Object Matter
Museum of Modern Art*
New York, NY
Mar. 15 – Sep. 7, 201
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 5, 2014 – Jan. 17, 2015
*Exhibition catalog with essay by Jae Gutierrez, CCP Aurthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator, available through MoMA Store
The Visual Blues
LSU Museum of Art
Baton Rouge, LA
Mar. 8 – Jul. 13, 2014
Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Portfolios
Arizona State Museum
Tucson, AZ
May 8, 2014 – July 31, 2015
Garry Winogrand
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
June 27 – September 21, 2014
Wynn Bullock: Revelations
High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA
Jun. 14, 2014 – Jan. 18, 2015
Fascinación
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Monterrey, Mexico
Aug. 14, 2014 – Jan. 11, 2015
Museo de Arte Moderno
Mexico City, Mexico
Jan. – May, 2015
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 | Edward S. Curtis, Firing Pottery Santa Clara, n.d., Gift of Bill Buckmaster ©1926 E. S. Curtis |
| Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Portfolios
Arizona State Museum
Through July 31, 2015
In the early decades of the 20th century, famed photographer of the American West Edward S. Curtis created and published a vast photographic record of North American Indians. These iconic images have generated controversy even as they have fascinated generations of viewers. Curtis Reframed is comprised of a rotating selection photogravures and copper plates from the collections of the Center for Creative Photography and the Arizona State Museum. This exhibition has inspired artistic responses from both contemporary and young Native artists. More info.
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 | Garry Winogrand, El Morocco, New York, 1955 Garry Winogrand Archive/Gift of the artist. ©The Estate of Garry Winogrand |
| Garry Winogrand
Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 27 – September 21, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will exhibit the first retrospective in twenty-five years of work by Garry Winogrand (1928–1984)—the renowned photographer of New York City and of American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s. This exhibition will bring together more than 175 of the artist's most iconic images, a trove of unseen prints, and even Winogrand's famed series of photos made at the Metropolitan Museum in 1969 when the Museum celebrated its centennial. It offers a rigorous overview of Winogrand's complete working life and reveals for the first time the full sweep of his career. More info.
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