September 25, 2012
Contact: Ruth McCutcheon

520-626-1006
mccutcheonr@ccp.library.arizona.edu
www.creativephtography.org

Tucson, AZ (September 25, 2012) – In October, the Center for Creative Photography will present three speakers:  photojournalist Danny Lyon, photographer Richard Misrach, and Photography Editor at Arizona Highways Magazine, Jeff Kida.  All three events will be held in the Center for Creative Photography Auditorium and are free to the public.

Groundbreaking American photojournalist Danny Lyon has been the subject of over fifty solo exhibitions, including retrospective exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007-8), The Menil Collection (2012), and currently at the Etherton Gallery in downtown Tucson, AZ. His work is collected by museums in the United States and Europe. Lyon is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker with more than a dozen films to his credit.

On Friday, October 5, 2012, at 6:00 p.m., Lyon will screen his film, Murderers. 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 is a 30-minute documentary film that tells the story of five murderers in three different states.

This screening is co-sponsored by Etherton Gallery, 135 South 6th Avenue, Tucson, in conjunction with their fall exhibition:  Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders, September 4 – October 27, 2012.

On Thursday, October 11, 2012, at 5:30 p.m., Jeff Kida, Photography Editor at Arizona Highways Magazine, will share photographs from the popular publication.

On Thursday, October 18, 2012, 5:30 p.m., photographer Richard Misrach will discuss his recent projects and will be available after his talk to sign his books, Petrochemical America and Destroy This Memory, which will be offered for sale.

In the 1970s, 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. His 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.

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About the Center for Creative Photography
The Center for Creative Photography, part of the University Libraries at the University of Arizona, holds more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other archive in the world. The archives of over 60 major American photographers—including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand—form the core of a collection numbering over 90,000 works. The Center for Creative Photography has an integrated program of preservation, access, and education that celebrates the history of photography and its contemporary practice.

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Admission: Center for Creative Photography exhibitions and events are FREE and open to the public.

Location: The CCP is located on the University of Arizona campus, Fine Arts Complex, 1030 N. Olive Rd., Tucson, AZ.

Parking: Parking is available at the Park Avenue Garage at the NE corner of Park and Speedway Blvd. The pedestrian underpass gives direct access to the CCP. Parking directly behind the CCP (off 2nd Street) is free after 5 p.m. on weekdays and all day Saturday and Sunday.

 

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