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|  | CCP Director Katharine Martinez, Chief Curator Josh Chuang, and Norton Family Curator Becky Senf at the Pace/MacGill reception |
|  | Photographer Emmet Gowin with CCP Director of Development Ruth McCutcheon at the Pace/MacGill reception |
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Letter from the Director
May 2014We are very excited to offer a grand finale to our spring program of public lectures and Photo Fridays. Photographer Rosalind Solomon will speak at the Center for Creative Photography this Thursday, May 1 at 5:30pm about her life as an artist photographing in the American South, Eastern Europe, India, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Northern Ireland and the Americas. She will also give us a preview of her recent photographs from Israel and the West Bank which will be exhibited in Prague later this year. We are very pleased that on the following day she will be participating in the Photo Friday featuring her photographic work. This is a special opportunity to hear the artist talk about her career on Thursday and then to be able to talk with her on Friday while viewing her work.
After our current exhibition Charles Harbutt, Departures and Arrivals ends on June 1st, the Gallery will be closed during the summer months for minor renovations, including a lighting upgrade. In August we will open an exhibition of contemporary photographs from the collection of School of Dance Professor and choreographer Douglas R. Nielsen. The exhibition will be co-curated by the Center’s new Chief Curator Josh Chuang in collaboration with Nielsen, drawing from a collection that includes 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.
During last month’s AIPAD fair in New York City, Pace/MacGill Gallery hosted a reception in honor of the Center’s new Chief Curator Josh Chuang. We were thrilled to see so many friends of the CCP come to toast his launch, and happy to greet many other well-wishers a few weeks later at Paris Photo Los Angeles. I am deeply grateful for all of the Center’s many supporters. Your engagement has made an enormous difference and I am very optimistic about the future of this great institution.
Katharine Martinez, PhD, Director
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| LAST CHANCE TO SEE: Charles Harbutt, Departures and Arrivals
November 8, 2013 – June 1, 2014Departures and Arrivals, the Center for Creative Photography's celebration of Charles Harbutt’s photographic work, will continue on exhibition through June 1, 2014.
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|  | Rosalind Solomon, Untitled, Jenin 2010 © Rosalind Solomon |
| Public Lecture: Rosalind Solomon
Jumping Off Place: How My Life Animates My Work
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography AuditoriumOn Thursday May 1st artist Rosalind Fox Solomon will speak about how her life experience animates her work. Solomon will discuss sources of the internal, visual language that puts her in touch with her subjects. She will speak of about her personal history and why at age 38, she began her life as an artist and photographer, revealing what led her to examine relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. Throughout her lecture, Solomon will share images, beginning with her earliest pictures in the American South and ending with a preview of her recent photographs from Israel and the West Bank which will be exhibited in Prague in September. THEM, a book of Solomon’s photographs interspersed with fragmented texts, will be published by MACK in late May. Solomon’s images continue to be widely published and exhibited around the world.
In 2005, Solomon began to organize her extensive archive which came to the Center for Creative Photography in 2007. The Rosalind Solomon Archive contains a key set of over 1,000 fine prints, unique books, and other art works, which together with Solomon’s original negatives, transparencies, personal papers, letters, business files, scrapbooks, video, audio tapes and other documentation, chronicle her long and productive career. Selections from this archive are included in the exhibition The Process and The Page: Developing Photographic Books currently on view at the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum (through August 17th, 2014).
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|  | Rosalind Solomon, Bride, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1993. Rosalind Solomon Archive © Rosalind Solomon |
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May Photo Friday: Rosalind Solomon, Flowers Are Not the Story
May 2, 2014 - 11:30am to 3:30pm
Volkerding Print Viewing Room
Free and open to the public The focus of the May Photo Friday will be on the work of New York City-based artist Rosalind Solomon, who will be present for this event. Across diverse societies and circumstances, she examines relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. The selection of photographs references flowers, as in “April showers bring May flowers” which allows for a fine cross-section of her amazing images to be highlighted. The Rosalind Solomon Archive at the Center contains over 1000 fine prints, unique books and other art works which, together with her original negatives, transparencies, personal papers and other documentation, chronicle her long and productive career. Ms. Solomon’s images continue to be widely published and exhibited around the world.
*This will be the last Photo Friday until September 2014.
Special guided exhibition tours of Charles Harbutt, Departures and Arrivals, will be offered on Friday, May 2nd at 10:30am and 12:30pm. Please meet in the lobby for these 30 to 40-minute highlight tours.
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| The Center’s art and archive collections are featured in the following current
and upcoming exhibitions:
El Paso Museum of Art, Jun. 1 – Aug. 24, 2014
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 11, 2014 – Jan. 11, 2015
Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ, Nov. 8, 2013 – Jul. 1, 2014
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, Feb. 7 – Sep. 14, 2014
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2, 2014 – Jun. 8, 2014
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Jun. 27, 2014 – Sep. 21, 2014
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, Oct. 14, 2014 – Feb. 8, 2015
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, Mar. 8 – Jul. 13, 2014
MoMA, New York, NY, Mar. 15 – Jun. 22, 2014
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 5, 2014 – Jan. 17, 2015
(Exhibition catalog essay by Jae Gutierrez, Arthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator at the Center for Creative Photography)
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The Process and The Page: Developing Photographic Books
March 29 through 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, W. Eugene Smith, and Rosalind Solomon explored this essential means of preserving and presenting their body of work.
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