September at the Center for Creative Photography

September 2012

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From the Director

September 2012

In the distant past, summer was a time when you could be away from academic life with time to think, read, organize your life, and refresh your brain cells for the fall semester. In today’s reality, I am talking on the phone, emailing, and Skyping with people around the world at all hours throughout the week. Here at the Center we are focusing on the future and excited about the new opportunities that arrive every day. Change is in the air and more changes are coming.

The Center has appointed Jennifer Jae Gutierrez as the first Arthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator after a national search. She will join the staff on October 15. The position will manage a conservation department endowed through a gift from the estate of Chicago photographer Arthur J. Bell.

Gutierrez earned a Master of Science degree in 2004 from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), specializing in photograph conservation. Since 2004 she has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses for the University of Delaware’s Art Conservation Department. Beginning in 2007 she was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department. She served as Interim Director for WUDPAC between 2008 and 2010 before become Associate Director of the Program in 2010. With Debra Hess Norris she edited Issues in the Conservation of Photographs published by the Getty Conservation Institute in 2010, and she has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences. Gutierrez has been actively involved in several photograph conservation initiatives including a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the establishment of a photograph conservation department at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia. She has led several photograph conservation survey projects most recently at Yosemite National Park in 2011 and 2012 and for the Rock Art Research Institute of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2004.

The search for a Curator is on-going; I am having many conversations. The Center’s new website is a work in progress with new content and images, so check back often. To keep the website up-to-date, we are about to post a job announcement for a Marketing Specialist, who will also produce the monthly e-newsletter and the annual report. Last week, we held a retirement party for Cass Fey, our Curator of Education for the last 19 years and we are thrilled to welcome her back in a new part-time role curating Photo Fridays.

– Katharine Martinez, Director

martinezk@ccp.library.arizona.edu

Mickey Pallas

Gun Shop Owners, 1956
Mickey Pallas Archive/Gift of the artist and Pat Pallas © 1995 Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation

Photo Friday

Friday, September 7, 11:30am – 3:30pm

CCP Print Study Room, Free Admission

Photo Fridays, September 7, October 5, November 2, December 7, 2012

11:30am – 3:30pm

Photo Fridays offer an exclusive themed selection from the Center’s renowned collection of photographs – unframed for close inspection in the second floor viewing room – every month. The theme for September 7 will be Family, and will include work by Shelby Lee Adams, Joan Barker, Harry Callahan, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Graciela Iturbide, Mickey Pallas, Paul Strand, and Rosalind Solomon.

Kozo Miyoshi, untitled, Tucson, Arizona, 1992.

Collection Center for Creative Photography, ©Kozo Miyoshi

Made in Arizona: Photographs from the Collection
August 18, 2012 - November 25, 2012

To celebrate the Arizona Centennial, the Center for Creative Photography will present a selection created in the state during the twentieth century. Encompassing a range of subjects and genres, the exhibition will highlight the diverse photographs produced in Arizona. Some of these artists spent time in the state because of great Arizona photographic institutions, including higher educational programs, Arizona Highways magazine, and the Center for Creative Photography itself. In addition to iconic views of iconic sites by photographic masters, this presentation will embrace the unexpected, and show the rich breadth and scope of the Center’s fine print collection.

Film Screening/Meet Danny Lyon
Friday, October 5, 6:00-7:00 p.m.

CCP Auditorium, Free Admission

Danny Lyon presents Murderers, a film he made and recorded, with editing by Anne Barliant.

Lyon is considered to be one of the most explosive and creative American documentary photographers and film makers to come of age in the 1960s. Murderers tells the story of five murderers in three different states. Beginning in New York City’s East River in Manhattan, we meet Jessie Ruiz, fishing for stripers. Jessie is out after serving 8 and half years, for beating a man to death with a baseball bat. “I didn’t kill him,” he explains, “he died on his own.” Inside the Tucker Unit of an Arkansas prison, we meet Pinkie who talks of the many executions he saw during eight years on Death Row, and Mojo, who has done thirteen years, because he was with his friend when the friend murdered both his adoptive parents. The film ends in New Mexico with Michael Guzman, who first appeared in Danny Lyon’s 1983 feature film Willie, describing with devastating emotion the abuse he suffered as a child. Guzman has been in prison for 25 years.
Co-sponsored by Etherton Gallery, 135 South 6th Avenue, Tucson, in conjunction with their fall exhibition: Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders, opening September 8, 2012. info@ethertongallery.com.

Jeff Kida, From the Pages of Arizona Highways Magazine
Thursday, October 11, 5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission

Jeff Kida, Photography Editor at Arizona Highways Magazine, will share photographs from the popular publication.

Richard Misrach, Playboy #97 (Marlboro Country),1990 Collection Center for Creative Photography, ©Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach: Recent ProjectsArtist’s Talk and Book Signing

Thursday, October 18, 5:30pm

CCP Auditorium, Free Admission

In the 1970’s, exhibiting artist Richard Misrach helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing epic series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relation to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years. Recent projects include: Golden Gate, Richard Misrach, Aperture, Spring 2012; Petrochemical America, Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Aperture, Fall 2012; Destroy This Memory, Richard Misrach, Aperture, Fall 2010; and 1991, Richard Misrach, Blind Spot, Fall 2011. Misrach’s photographs are held in the collections of over fifty major institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Artist’s Talk: Susan Meiselas
Thursday, October 25, 5:30 p.m.

CCP Auditorium, Free Admission

Susan Meiselas, a member of the international co-operative Magnum Photos since 1976, has published her work in the pages of Time, The New York Times, Life, and Paris Match. She spent the end of the 1970s and most of the 1980s in Central and South America on the front line of the people's revolution in Nicaragua and the civil war in El Salvador, documenting the "dirty war" in Argentina, human rights abuses in Columbia, and the end of the Pinochet regime in Chile. During that time, and since, working with her own photographs and with other people's, she has expanded her role to that of curator, film-maker, teacher, historian and archivist.In the 1990s, after seeing the exhumation of mass graves in northern Iraq, the result of Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds in 1987 and 1988, she began to gather every scrap of visual evidence - documents, family pictures, maps, personal stories - to build a public archive of the history of the displaced Kurdish people. From a book project and an exhibition, it developed into a website, akaKurdistan.com, an expanding visual memory bank driven by the momentum of its contributors.

Co-sponsored by the University of Arizona School of Art’s Visiting Artists, Scholars and Exhibitions (VASE) Program.

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Alvin Langdon Coburn’s storm passing through three seasons and ninety-eight years (1911, 2007, and 2009), 2009 Collection Center for Creative Photography, ©Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Conversation and Book Signing
Wednesday, November 14, 5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission

Norton Family Curator Rebecca Senf leads collaborative artists Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe in a discussion of their working process, their recent Grand Canyon project and book, and what’s on their horizon. Conversation will be followed by an opportunity to purchase the new “Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe” with an essay by Rebecca Senf.

Upcoming Events and Exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum

Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad
Norton Photography Gallery
June 22 - September 23, 2012
Over the course of a decade and across 32 states, photographer and digital artist Stephen Marc followed the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that served as a gateway to freedom during slavery in the American South. Tracing its history, its interconnected web of stories, of faces, lives, homes, caves, and passageways, Marc followed and photographed the routes of the freedom seekers, creating from these powerful images a thread of narratives. Stephen Marc: Passage On the Underground Railroad, an exhibition of Marc’s compelling and visually expansive digital documentary montages, will be on view in Norton Photography Gallery through September 23, 2012.

The exhibition features digital documentary montages in a size known as extended panoramic, startling, bold works measuring 10 inches tall by 45 inches wide. In addition to Marc’s photographic work, the digitally rendered montages include images of historical materials discovered on the premises of these historic sites, including letters, photographs and paintings. This traveling exhibition was organized by University of Buffalo. Marc’s work has also appeared in museums in Paris, Chicago, Houston, and Washington DC. Marc is a professor at Arizona State University and has resided in Arizona since 1998.

Stephen Marc Lecture

Wednesday, September 5 7:00pm
On Wednesday, September 5, Stephen Marc will discuss the work in his exhibition, “Passage on the Underground Railroad,” in Singer Hall at the Phoenix Art Museum.Photographer and digital artist Marc followed the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that served as a gateway to freedom during slavery in the American South, over the course of a decade and across 32 states. Marc photographed the routes of the freedom seekers, creating powerful images. The exhibition, Stephen Marc: Passage On the Underground Railroad, featuring these compelling works will be on view in Norton Photography Gallery at Phoenix Art Museum through September 23.Marc is a professor at Arizona State University and has resided in Arizona since 1998. His work has been published in numerous books and publications, and in three monographs. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is the recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship and the Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography, and received the Elizabeth and Mallory Factor Prize in 2009.

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