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|  | © John Divola, 1995-98, From Isolated Houses, N34°11.115' W116°08.399' |
| Landscape and Things in the Way
John Divola
September 18, 5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium (co-sponsored by
VASE) John Divola (1949, Los Angeles) works primarily with photography and digital imaging. Since 1975, he has taught photography and art at numerous institutions including California Institute of the Arts (1978-1988), and since 1988, he has been a Professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside. Divola's work has been featured in more than sixty solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Europe, Mexico, and Australia. His work has also been included in more than two hundred group exhibitions. Among Divola’s Awards are Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1976, 1979, 1990) and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1986). His recent books include Continuity (Ram Publications, 1997), Isolated Houses (Nazraeli, 2000), Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (Nazraeli, 2004), Three Acts (Aperture, 2006), and The Green of This Notebook (Nazraeli, 2009). While he has approached a broad range of subjects, Divola is currently moving through the landscape looking for the oscillating edge between the abstract and the specific.
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| Water: Where Science and Art Meet
Javier Duran, moderator, Greg Garfin, Ellen McMahon, Rebecca Senf, and Edgar Cardenas
September 24, 5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium
The Center for Creative Photography and the
Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry will explore the issues surrounding water and sustainability in the desert with a panel discussion titled Water: Where Science and Art Meet. The focal point of the discussion will be the Confluencenter’s highly acclaimed book Ground|Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River and photographs from CCP’s Water in the West archive collection. Confluencenter director, Dr. Javier Duran, will moderate the panel, which will include Ellen McMahon, one of the editors of the Ground|Water book and a professor of art at the UA; Dr. Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at CCP and the Phoenix Art Museum; Dr. Gregg Garfin, deputy director for Science Translation and Outreach at the Institute of the Environment; and Edgar Cardenas, an artist-scientist, who is currently a doctoral candidate at the ASU School of Sustainability researching how collaboration dynamics between artists and scientists can lead to novel sustainability-oriented outcomes.
TODD WALKER DAY In celebration of the 96th anniversary of Todd’s birth, the Center for Creative Photography declares Wednesday, September 25, Todd Walker Day!
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|  | Todd Walker. L062 13x16, 1976
©Todd Walker Estate |
| Gallery Talk
Melanie Walker, Todd’s daughter and Associate Professor, IMAP and Photography, University of Colorado at Boulder
September 25, 11:00 am and 4:00 pm
CCP Gallery
Todd Walker was an American photographer, printmaker and creator of artists’ books who is known for his manipulated images and for his use of offset lithography to produce individual prints and limited-edition books of his work.
Walker began teaching at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1966. His interest in creative photographic processes brought him to the attention of Robert Heinecken and Robert W. Fichter at UCLA, and the three co-taught classes for a brief time. In 1970, Walker accepted a one-year teaching position at the University of Florida. There he worked with photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Douglas Prince, as well as printmaker Ken Kerslake, who was at that time using photo-etching techniques in intaglio printmaking. Walker taught a photo-printmaking class and a silkscreen class. In an interview in the late 1970s, Walker said, “The contact with the ideas of the printmaker have greatly altered my attitudes toward photography, and how each discipline deals with an image.” Seven years later, he moved to Tucson and taught at the University of Arizona before retiring in 1985.
While in Arizona, Walker began working with some of the first Apple computers, and he used his technical skills to create some early 3-D images of his work and to create a book in which the text was mostly generated by the computer (Enthusiasm Strengthens, 1987). According to his daughter, Walker never used Photoshop or other commercial imaging software. He wrote his own computer programs and later made use of software primarily designed for cartography. With these techniques he was able to create digital works that blurred, inverted, and obscured the original image, making it into an expressive rather than detailed representation of reality.
Todd Walker – Embracing Technology
Ann Simmons Myers, moderator, Melanie Walker, Teresa Engle Schirmer, and Alex Sweetman
September 25, 5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium
Ann Simmons Myers is Head of the Photography Program at Pima Community College. Her career has been chronicled in more than 20 publications and her photographs are included in the collections of prominent institutions, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the High Art Museum in Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over 30 years with expertise is in the area of alternative photographic processes, digital and mixed media as well as large scale photographic installations and more recently, public art. She currently teaches in the Media Arts Area at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Teresa Engle Schirmer is an acclaimed darkroom printer who created the posthumous photographs in the recent SFMoma Winogrand Exhibition.
Alex Sweetman is a photographer, writer, and instructor and is currently the director of media arts and a professor in the departments of art and art history, and in film studies at University of Colorado Boulder.
On the Line: Border Images from two Perspectives
Dr. Scott Whiteford, moderator, Alejandra Platt-Torres, and David Taylor
October 10, 5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium (co-sponsored by the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry)
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| Photographers Alejandra Platt-Torres and David Taylor have spent years along the U.S./Mexico border, each separately documenting the landscape and the people. Torres’ black and white work focuses on the plight of the migrants and portraits of indigenous people while Taylor examines the dramatic increase in security apparatus along the border. They will show and discuss their work in a forum moderated by Dr. Scott Whiteford, professor at the UA Center for Latin American Studies, whose current project focuses on globalization, borders, and environmental security in Latin America.
On Photography Now
Andy Grundberg
October 17, 5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium Andy Grundberg, associate provost of the Corcoran School of Art and Design, is an art critic, curator, and educator with over 25 years of experience specializing in writing about photography and video within contemporary art. His essays and articles for the New York Times and other publications are collected in Crisis of the Real (Aperture).
AT THE PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
INFOCUS PhotoBid 2013
Exhibition and Silent Auction
Online Auction - Began Thursday, Aug. 15
Silent Auction - Friday, Oct. 18, 5:30 - 9:00 pm
Norton Photography Gallery
Photography has become one of the most dynamic and talked-about fields in the contemporary art world. Whether you are a seasoned collector or just starting out, PhotoBid 2013 is a fun, welcoming event where you can mingle with people who share a passion for photography and bring home an original work of art—all for a great cause! Organized by Dr. Rebecca Senf, the Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum, PhotoBid 2013 features more than 50 signed limited-edition prints and books by acclaimed photographers from throughout Arizona and the United States. Collectors have the opportunity to bid on these museum-quality photographic prints, which include landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and abstractions spanning a diverse variety of media—from black-and-white to color, and from traditional to digital—with a range of prices for every budget. Proceeds benefit
INFOCUS, the Museum’s nonprofit support organization that fosters the appreciation and advancement of photography through educational programs, exhibitions and publications. PhotoBid 2013 auction items may be viewed in person Oct. 5 to 18 at Phoenix Art Museum’s Norton Photography Gallery. Bids may be placed
online starting Aug. 15 and in person at the PhotoBid 2013 silent auction on Friday, Oct. 18, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Guests at the silent auction will enjoy live music, appetizers and a cash bar. The event also features a raffle with tickets priced at just $20 and extraordinary prizes such as signed, limited-edition photographs and books. Admission to the silent auction is $25 and includes a complimentary cocktail and raffle ticket. Purchase your tickets
online today!
Marilyn Bridges Lecture
September 18, 7:00 pm The work of photographer Marilyn Bridges functions as both art and personal expression and documentation. For the past decade, Bridges has combined photography with her passion for flying. As photographer, pilot, and explorer, Bridges illuminates the bonds between mark-makers of 3,000 B.C. and the builders of our modern cities. Her work is on display in From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography through September 22.
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