Center for Creative Photography 2011 AnnuAl RepoRt

The Center for Creative Photography is the largest institution in the world devoted to documenting the history of North American photography. It is a research institution with a robust program of exhibitions and public lectures. At the heart of the Center are the archives of more than 200 photographers, scholars, galleries, and organizations, comprising 4.5 million items, complemented by an unparalleled collection of over 90,000 fine prints.

Above: Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP #340 (SF Bay Bridge), 2009, unique gelatin silver paper negative, purchase. © Chris McCaw.

Cover: Bremner Benedict, Alewife, 2003, Pigment print, purchase, with funds provided by Haluk Soykan. © Bremner Benedict.

My first year as Director of the Center for Creative Photography has been truly exhilarating. The staff is superb and dedicated and the collections extraordinary, but what has been most rewarding is the welcome I have received from members of the photography community, who care passionately about the Center, its history, and its potential. I am honored to be part of this great institution, and proud of what the staff has accomplished.

The year was noteworthy for the gift of $3.5 million from the estate of Chicago photographer Arthur J. Bell. We had a major boost in our international profile from an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Center; and through the launch of the Ansel Adams app for the iPad, comprising photographs, letters, and postcards in the Ansel Adams Archives. We improved the research experience by merging access to the archives and the fine print collections in a new space, the Laura Volkerding Study Center, and added more than 20,000 scanned images to our website. 20,000 visitors enjoyed our free exhibition program. We offered exhibition tours to more than 5,700 visitors, and customized print study sessions to nearly 700 visitors and over 2,800 students. The Center held nine public lectures by notable photographers and scholars such as Emmet Gowin, Chris McCaw, Lyle Rexer, Dr. John Schaefer, and Barbara Kasten.

At the end of the year we took a major step in strengthening our infrastructure by acquiring a new collection management system, TMS from Gallery Systems Inc., a company whose clients include many of the major art museums in North America and Europe. The system will be a vital tool for managing our collection records, organizing exhibitions, coordinating loans to other institutions, documenting conservation treatments, and tracking the movement of the collection objects within the building.

Dr. Katharine Martinez

letter from the Director

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This report was made possible by generous support from the Kautz Family Foundation.

© Frances Murray, 2011

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letter from the Dean

We are proud of the unique collections and archives found nowhere else in the world but the Center for Creative Photography. The Center, which is part of the University Libraries, supports the research and teaching missions of the University of Arizona. It also provides indispensable resources for national and international scholarship.

The Center is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to its one-of-a-kind research materials. We are engaged in extensive digitization projects to make the Center’s materials more widely available online. We are also expanding access to these items through print study sessions, tours, public exhibitions and programs, and our partnership with the Phoenix Art Museum. The great richness of the Center’s collections and archives makes them an important part of the nation’s intellectual and cultural heritage. Carla J. StoffleDean of University Libraries andThe Center for Creative Photography

The Center for Creative Photography received a $3.5 million estate gift from the late Arthur J. Bell, a former photographer and instructor at Columbia College Chicago. The gift is the most significant donation to the Center since the building was completed in 1989, made in recognition of the international importance of the Center. It was Bell’s final nod to his passion for photography – a passion that developed as he was trained by American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, both of whom house their work at CCP.

Using Bell’s gift, the Center created a permanent full-time position, the Arthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator.

The new conservator will plan and implement short- and long-term goals pertaining to the care of photographic materials in the Center’s collections and recruit staff for the CCP’s conservation lab. A national search is under way. The quality and size of the Center’s collections underscore the need for a full-time conservator. The gift is the culmination of a significant effort to create a conservation program that began in 2008 with the construction of a state-of-the-art photography conservation lab in the Center.

Arthur J. Bell Gift

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Arthur J. Bell, Untitled, No date, chromogenic print. Gift of the Arthur J. Bell Estate. ©2010 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

Gift from Sarah Lee, wife of Robert Sobieszek Robert Sobieszek’s Archive is an extraordinary collection of his writings, research files, lecture slides, correspondence with artists and writers, and memorabilia. Sobieszek began his career at the George Eastman House in 1968 and left to become the curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1990. In addition to being an adventuresome and inspiring curator, he was a prodigious scholar, producing ten books and contributing to over 90 other publications. His last major book and exhibition, Ghost in the Shell – Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, was the result of over 30 years of research and is well documented in his papers.

Gift from Anne Adams Helms, for the Ansel Adams Archive

More than 150 individual pieces and books of sheet music that belonged to Ansel Adams were gifted by his daughter Anne Adams Helms. Turned corners and annotations demonstrate that all the music was clearly played and well loved by Adams. We have photographs and recordings of Adams playing the piano, and with the donation of his music to our collection, the documentation of this important aspect of his life is complete. The following additions to existing archives were received in FY11:

Tom Barrow Archive: 10 boxes /12 linear feet

Ralph Gibson Archive: 6 boxes /4 linear feet

Bernard Plossu Collection: 1 box /fraction of a linear foot

Jerry Uelsmann Archive: 2 boxes /1 linear foot

Charis Wilson Archive: 1 box /fraction of a linear foot

Ansel Adams Miscellaneous Collection: 2 boxes / 1 linear foot

Rosalind Solomon Archive: 1 box /fraction of a linear foot

Archive Acquisitions

laura Volkerding Study Center

We are pleased to announce the opening of the new Laura Volkerding Study Center, a facility that allows integrated access to items from the fine print collection and the archives side by side in one secure location. This Study Center will have a transformative effect for students, faculty, and visiting researchers on their ability to learn from our unparalleled resources.

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The Center received over 40 applications for the Ansel Adams Research Fellowship from scholars in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Four fellowships were awarded.

CARoLE NAGGAR, photography historian, curator, writer, cofounder, and Special Projects Editor of Pixel Press since 1999. Research on Marion Palfi’s book, There Is No More Time: An American Tragedy, an unpublished photo essay on Jim Crow laws and lynching.

ELizAbETH VAN ARRAGoN, Assistant Professor of Art History, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Research on the Photo League.

CARoL MCCuSkER, independent curator and adjunct professor at University of San Diego. Research for a book entitled Boom! 1963-1983: Two Decades of Change in American Photography.

JESSiCA MCDoNALD, doctoral candidate, University of Rochester; Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA. Research for her dissertation Writing the Photo Boom: A Historiography of the Expansion of American Photography in the 1960’s.

This year the staff processed the following archives:

Rosalie Thorne McKenna Archive: 114 boxes / 90 linear feet

Richard Whelan Archive: 31 boxes / 30 linear feet

Lola Alvarez Bravo Archive: 65 boxes / 32 linear feet (8,600 negatives)

Robert Sobieszek Archive: 34 boxes, 3 file cabinetsLaura Volkerding Archive: 4 boxesWayne Miller Archive: 5 boxesLIGHT Gallery Archive: 29 boxes

Ansel Adams Research Fellows

Archive processing

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Garry Winogrand, New York City, 1972, gelatin silver print, gift of Lewis W. Siegel. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand.

The Center has produced oral histories for 36 years. The official

“Voices of Photography” project (VOP), created by Professor Emeritus Harold Jones and Amy Rule in 2005, continues today under Jones’s direction. In 2010, VOP collaborated with the School of Visual Arts in NYC to conduct Skype interviews with people associated with the LIGHT Gallery in New York. They completed over nine interviews, wrote five annotations of interviews, and produced “The Voices of Photography Speak,” which was shown during the exhibition Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum.

exhibitions July 2010 – June 2011 Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New TechnologiesGuest curated by Professor Kate Albers, U of A School of ArtJune 5 – August 1, 2010

West and West: Joe DealTraveling exhibition curated by Jan Howard, Rhode Island School of Design June 5 – August 1, 2010

Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary PhotographyTraveling exhibition curated by Lyle Rexer and Aperture FoundationSeptember 4 – November 28, 2010

Wynn Bullock: Color Light AbstractionsCurated by Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator September 11 – November 28, 2010

Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic PortraitureCurated by Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator December 28, 2010 – May 15, 2011 Ansel Adams and the West Curated by Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator December 28, 2010 – May 15, 2011

Voices of photography

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Aaron Siskind, Veracruz #14, 1981, gelatin silver print, gift of Jed Fielding. © The Aaron Siskind Foundation.

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traveling exhibitions

Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, September 30 – December 5, 2010

Richard Avedon: Fashion, Stage and Screen Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, October 15, 2010 – January 30, 2011

John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work Instituto de Cultura FUNDACION MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain, October 4, 2010 – January 16, 2011 Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain, February 3 – April 3, 2011

The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, July 23 – September 19, 2010 Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, February 3 – July 10, 2011

Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence Nassau County Art Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York, May 21 – September 4, 2011

New Topographics San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, July 17 – October 3, 2010 Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria, November 10, 2010 – January 9, 2011 Photographische Sammlung SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany, January 20 – March 28, 2011 Preus museum, Horten, Norway, April 10 – June 5, 2011 Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 25 – September 11, 2011

W. Eugene Smith: More Real than Reality il Centro Comunale d’ Arte e Cultura EXMÀ in Cagliari, Sardinia, July 10 – October 3, 2010 FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 17, 2010 – March 16, 2011 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, September 22 – November 27, 2011

phoenix Art Museum Collaboration Our partnership with the Phoenix Art Museum continues to be enormously successful, expanding the audience for the Center’s collections with three annual exhibitions in the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography. We are deeply grateful for support from James K. Ballinger, the Sybil Harrington Director and members of In Focus, the Museum’s photography support organization.

All Norton Gallery exhibitions are curated by Norton Family Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf.

Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography Phoenix Art Museum, July 24 – November 28, 2010

Brett Weston and Sonya Noskowiak: Inspired Vision Phoenix Art Museum, December 4, 2010 – March 13, 2011

Pure Photography, Post Production, and Mixed Media Co-curated with University of Arizona graduate student River Bullock Phoenix Art Museum, April 23 – August 14, 2011

loans

A Place Out of History Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico September 25, 2010 – March 6, 2011 9 facsimiles of letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston

Cézanne and American Modernism Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona July 3 – September 26, 2010 1 photograph by Paul Strand

Joe Deal: West and West Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri November 3, 2010 – January 3, 2011 21 photographs by Joe Deal

Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine June 14 – September 11, 2011 2 photographs by Paul Strand

O’Keeffiana: Art and Art Materials Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico September 24, 2010 – May 8, 2011 1 photograph by Ansel Adams

Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio February 4 – April 24, 2011 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico May 20 – September 11, 2011 1 archive object by Edward Weston

Siquieros in Los Angeles Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California September 23, 2010 – January 9, 2011 2 photographs by Edward Weston

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Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Rock Formations on the Road to Lee’s Ferry, Arizona, 2008, inkjet print, purchase. © Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.

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Gordon C. Abbott 1 gelatin silver print Ansel Adams 2 gelatin silver prints Ansel Adams 17 modern inkjet study prints Ansel Adams/ Pirkle Jones 19 gelatin silver prints Harold Allen 1 gelatin silver print Abe Aronow 246 gelatin silver and chromogenic printsArthur J. Bell 202 gelatin silver and chromogenic prints Bremner Benedict 11 pigment prints Louis Carlos Bernal 12 gelatin silver and chromogenic prints Josef Breitenbach 28 gelatin silver printsWynn Bullock 8 gelatin silver prints Harry Callahan 1 gelatin silver print Paul Caponigro 1 gelatin silver print Barbara Crane 1 gelatin silver print Edward Curtis 1 photogravure Joe Deal 18 gelatin silver and chromogenic prints Jay Dusard 1 gelatin silver print Dr. Harold Edgerton 40 gelatin silver prints Jody Forster 9 gelatin silver prints Lyle Gomes 5 gelatin silver prints James Hajicek 1 gum bichromate print David Heath 1 gelatin silver print Joseph Jachna 7 gelatin silver prints

Harold Jones 6 gelatin silver prints, some with ink Fritz Kaeser 2 gelatin silver prints Caleb Cain Marcus 1 gelatin silver print Chris McCaw 2 unique gelatin silver paper negatives Ken Merfeld 1 inkjet print Rodrigo Moya 3 gelatin silver prints David Muench 1 gelatin silver print Arnold Newman 1 gelatin silver print Nicholas Nixon 5 gelatin silver prints Lorie Novak 2 chromogenic prints Eliot Porter/ Ellen Auerbach 25 dye transfer prints Aaron Siskind 8 gelatin silver prints Jerry Uelsmann 1 gelatin silver print Paul Vanderbilt 2 gelatin silver prints Todd Walker 6 lithographs Robert Weingarten 6 pigment prints Jack Welpott 13 gelatin silver prints Kim Weston 4 gelatin silver prints, two with oil paint John Willis 4 gelatin silver prints Don Worth 4 gelatin silver prints Tom Young 4 inkjet prints

Acquisitions to the Fine print Collection

July 2010 to June 2011

Joe Deal, Day Care Home, Phillip’s Ranch, California, 1984, gelatin silver print, gift of Dr. William Tsiaras. © Joe Deal.

Garry Winogrand: Portfolio #56 Jacques Henri Lartigue: A Collector’s Portfolio 1903-1916

Brian C. Pelletier: Twelve Old Photographs, 1970

Graduate Student Portfolio, 1969: Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology

Student Independent 7, 1969: Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology

portfolios

Ansel Adams Publishing Rights TrustJeanne F. AdamsAbraham Aronow Anonymous (3)Thomas F. Barrow G. Clark and Pamela Bean Fund at the Arizona Community FoundationJanice M. BellEstate of Arthur J. BellJames T. BialacBoston FoundationThe Josef & Yaye Breitenbach Charitable FoundationLeslie S. Calmes A.D. and Susan ChandlerEtherton GalleryTerry EthertonJed FieldingDr. Waldo FieldingPamela ForbesJody ForsterJames G. FrommRalph GibsonJames J. and Louise GlasserDr. Martin Goldman and Dorothy KlepperLyle GomesThe Greenberg Foundation Dan Greenberg and Susan SteinhauserPhilip A. GreiderHackberry Endowment PartnersAllan HarveyHaskell FundAnne A. HelmsThe Intuit Foundation - Matching GiftsHarold H. JonesPeter C. Jones K & I Holdings, Inc.Michael KaplanBruce KatsiffKautz Family FoundationKiki J. KinkadeSusan S. Kliman David A. KnausDr. John V. and Laura KnausWendy F. Lang

Dimitri LazarescuSarah LeeTheresa LuisottiEstate of Neil E. Matthew MGW & CJW 2007 TrustJeffrey MinkerRodrigo Moya Nicholas NixonThe Norton FoundationRussel L. PenrodAndrew PhelpsPhoenix Art MuseumDonald Pitt Family FoundationDana L. PittBernard PlossuSusan F. PollackRichard S. Press and Jeanne PressKenneth J. and Judith Riskind Mark RogovinEstate of Milton RogovinF. Peter RoseDr. Peter F. Salomon and Patricia MorganFern M. SchadDrs. John P. and Helen F. SchaeferRebecca C. SeamanKate J. Seemann Charitable TrustPeter L. SheldonLewis W. SiegelHaluk Soykan and Elisa FredericksonBob Stein Harlan and Randi SteinbergerChristine TateDr. William TsiarasJerry UelsmannDonald J. and Patricia UnderwoodHelen UnruhVivendi Holding 1 Corp.Laura Volkerding Charitable TrustRichard A. WahlDon R. Wenig Michael Wilson

Donors

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Donations made from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011.

Dimitri LazarescuSarah LeeTheresa LuisottiEstate of Neil E. Matthew MGW & CJW 2007 TrustJeffrey MinkerRodrigo Moya Nicholas NixonThe Norton FoundationRussel L. PenrodAndrew PhelpsPhoenix Art MuseumDonald Pitt Family FoundationDana L. PittBernard PlossuSusan F. PollackRichard S. Press and Jeanne PressKenneth J. and Judith Riskind Mark RogovinEstate of Milton RogovinF. Peter RoseDr. Peter F. Salomon and Patricia MorganFern M. SchadDrs. John P. and Helen F. SchaeferRebecca C. SeamanKate J. Seemann Charitable TrustPeter L. SheldonLewis W. SiegelHaluk Soykan and Elisa FredericksonBob Stein Harlan and Randi SteinbergerChristine TateDr. William TsiarasJerry UelsmannDonald J. and Patricia UnderwoodHelen UnruhVivendi Holding 1 Corp.Laura Volkerding Charitable TrustRichard A. WahlDon R. Wenig Michael Wilson

Image Resources and Copyright Management

The Center for Creative Photography owns or manages the copyrights for 19 major photographers. The Image Resources and Copyright Management Department provides permission to license images to museums, educators, and publishers world-wide for presentation in print, film, web, and digital devices.

In 2011-2012, the Center’s licensing team facilitated the publication or digital presentation of 580 images by over 200 photographers. These images appeared in movies and in books on photography, history, social issues, architecture, and the arts. In addition, licensing services continue to expand to include new media uses including eBooks, mobile device apps, and web presentations.

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(upper left) Cover of the Times Literary Supplement (UK), Photograph by Rollie McKenna, Elizabeth Bishop, 1951. ©The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation.

(middle right) Cover of Pace Gallery publication “Willem de Kooning, The Figure: Movement and Gesture,” Photograph by Hans Namuth, Willem de Kooning, 1972. © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate.

(bottom right) Interior Plate, Skira Rizzoli’s “Balenciaga and Spain,” Photograph by Louise Dahl Wolfe, Suzy Parker by the Seine, Costume by Balenciaga, 1953. © 1989 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

Copyrights owned by the Center for Creative photography

Copyrights Managed by the Center for Creative photographyEsther BornRosalie Thorne McKennaHans NamuthMilton Rogovin

Arthur J. Bell Dean BrownLola Alvarez BravoLouise Dahl-WolfeAdolf FassbenderJohn GutmannOtto HagelHansel Mieth

Wright MorrisDorothy NormanMarion PalfiMickey PallasLaura VolkerdingEdward WestonMax Yavno

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(top) Ansel Adams Research Fellow Carol McCusker looks at materials in the Laura Volkerding Research Center.

(bottom) University of Arizona graduate Tony Celentano shows an artist’s book to a University of Arizona class.

Mission The Center for Creative Photography actively collects, preserves, interprets, manages, and makes available materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Through its archives, collections, education programs, exhibitions, and publications, the Center promotes research into and appreciation of the photographic medium while safeguarding original objects for posterity.

CCp Staff Katharine Martinez, DirectorNova O’Brien Burns, Assistant Registrar, Avedon ArchiveLeslie Calmes, Archivist and Head of Research ServicesTammy Carter, Assistant Manager for Copyright ManagementJennifer DiCocco, Curatorial Assistant, Avedon ArchiveCass Fey, Curator of EducationDenise Gosé, Manager, Image Resources & Copyright ManagementHarold Jones, Voices of PhotographyAlan Lavery, Exhibition SpecialistJanet Livingstone, Administrative AssistantRuth McCutcheon, Director of DevelopmentBetsi Meissner, Assistant RegistrarTim Mosman, Exhibition Designer and Senior PreparatorTrinity Parker, RegistrarRebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator and Acting Senior CuratorSue Spence, Assistant Manager for Image ResourcesJames Uhrig, Archival AssistantYunzhen Wan, Assistant Manager for Collection Records

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Andrew Phelps, Billboard Homes, 2006, chromogenic print, gift of the artist. © Andrew Phelps.

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