Upcoming Exhibitions
The Edge of Vision:
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
Organized by Aperture Foundation.
September 4 - November 28, 2010
From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer, showcases the work of more than twenty contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as "a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject." Within this broad definition, a host of approaches explore aspects of the photographic experience, including the chemistry of traditional photography, the mediation of lenses, the direct capture of light without a camera, temporal extensions, digital sampling of found images, radical cropping, and various deliberate destabilizations of photographic reference. For more information, visit Aperture's Edge of Vision website.
Image Credit:
Bill Armstrong
Mandala #450, 2003
Courtesy Clamp Art, New York
Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture
December 17, 2010 - March 13, 2011

An exploration of the photographic portrait - the stories portraits can tell, the ways photographers convey the essence of their subjects and the impact of the relationship between photographer and subject. Including nearly 60 portraits from the Center for Creative Photography, consisting of some of the greatest portraitists and photographic image-makers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century: Southworth and Hawes, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Yousuf Karsh and Richard Avedon.
Image Credit:
Hans Namuth
Eusebia Perez, age 29, and daughter Faustina. Eusebia has four children by four different fathers and loves all of them, 1979
©1991 Hans Namuth Estate, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Gift of Peter Namuth
Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography
April 1 - July 10, 2011

Image Credit:
Edward Weston
Nude, 1936
©1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
