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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

Hans Namuth, Eusebia Perez, age 29, and daughter Faustina. Eusebia has four children by four different fathers and loves all of them, 1979

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

Edward Weston, Nude, 1936

 

As the Center for Creative Photography celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary in 2010, it is poised to look back on past accomplishments and forward to embrace new technologies to reach ever greater audiences. Creative Continuum presents a variety of photographs and archival objects acquired by the Center for Creative Photography over the past 35 years, demonstrating the diversity of the collection and the range of materials it preserves. The exhibition also highlights the work of the five founding archive artists –Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. The Center opened in 1975 with an exhibition of these five founders, and the current presentation of their work shows where the Center started and how these core collections provided a foundation on which the institution’s broader holdings could be built. 

 

Image Credit:

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