In 2006, Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson inaugurated a highly innovative and unprecedented collaboration to bring the finest in photography to Phoenix Art Museum visitors. It established a vibrant new photography exhibition program at the Museum, while bringing the Center’s world-renowned collections to new and larger audiences.

The CCP is one of the world’s largest repositories of materials chronicling photography. Founded in 1975, it now houses 3.8 million archival items and 80,000 fine prints by 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 totals more than 80,000 works by 2,000 photographers.

Select Exhibition History

Human Nature: The Photographs of Barbara Bosworth
Doris and John Norton Gallery
April 19 – July 27, 2008

Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence
Doris and John Norton Gallery
January 12 – April 13, 2008

On the Street: The Photographers of the New York School
Doris and John Norton Gallery
May 26-September 2, 2007

Garry Winogrand: Four Edges and the Facts
Doris and John Norton Gallery
February 10-May 20, 2007

Modern by Nature: Ansel Adams in the 1930s
Doris and John Norton Gallery
November 11, 2006-February 4, 2007

Left: Pepper #30, Edward Weston, 1930. © 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. Center: The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, Ansel Adams, 1942. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Right: Japanese Bath, Betty Threat, Model, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1954. © 1989 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.