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The Center for Creative Photography is an archive and research center located on the University of Arizona campus. We retain the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other great 20th century photographers—over fifty archives in all.
Interested in seeing original works of art of your choice from the Center's photograph collection? Find out more about reserving a print study session.
Current Exhibition
John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work
October 23, 2009 – January 31, 2010
John Gutmann (1905–1998) captured images of American culture, celebrating signs of a vibrant democracy, however imperfect. German born and trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 for San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. His outsider status—a Jew in Germany, an immigrant in the United States—informed his focus on multiculturalism. This exhibition draws on the Center for Creative Photography’s archive of Gutmann’s photographs and papers to present both unfamiliar works and little-known contexts for his imagery, linking his photography to his passion for painting and filmmaking, his collections of non-Western art and artifacts, and his devotion to teaching.
Image Credit:
The Artist Lives Dangerously, San Francisco, 1938
Photograph by John Gutmann
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