The University of Arizona ·
Tucson, Arizona ·
520-621-7968
http://www.creativephotography.org
INFORMATION / COLLECTIONS / EXHIBITIONS
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona, was founded in 1975. CCP is an archive, museum, and research center dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record.
CCP’s collection includes more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other museum in the country.
Its holdings include a RESEARCH COLLECTION, featuring the archives of over 60 photographers, including — Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, W. Eugene Smith, and Edward Weston among them. Archives include photographs, negatives, albums, work prints, manuscripts, audio-visual material, contact sheets, correspondence and memorabilia.
CCP’s ART COLLECTION includes more than 60,000 works by 2,000 American and Mexican photographers. Some of the photographers in the art collection include Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Ernest Bloch, Josef Breitenbach, Dean Brown, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Andreas Feininger, William Mortensen, Marion Palfi, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Sommer, Peter Stackpole, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Tseng Kwong Chi, Laura Volkerding, and Edward Weston.