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grand, educators Laura Volkerding and Robert
Heinecken, fashion photographers Louise Dahl-
Wolfe and Richard Avedon, pictorialists William
Mortensen and Adolf Fassbender, photographer,
educator and theorist Henry Holmes Smith, photo-
journalists W. Eugene Smith and Dan Weiner, the
critics and historians A. D. Coleman, Beaumont
Newhall and Nancy Newhall, archives from such
collective photographic undertakings as the Espejo
and the Water in the West projects, records from
the Limelight and Witkin photographic galleries
and from the Society for Photographic Education,
and materials from many other sources.
Many of the collections are related, yielding to
researchers a more complex view of a photogra-
pher’s work and life, and the web of relations
between them and others, than a single archive
may on its own. For example, the Edward Weston
archive, which contains a wealth of material from
the photographer himself—including correspon-
dence, manuscripts of his daybooks, negatives,
memorabilia and other materials—is further com-
plemented by the Center’s additional holdings of
archival materials from Weston’s friends and
associates Johan Hagemeyer, Sonya Noskowiak,
and numerous other small collections.
Although photograph collections at the CCP are
predominantly twentieth century and from the
United States, nineteenth century photography
and work of an international scope are also re-
presented. The Center holds more than 60,000
exhibition quality prints by more than 2,000
photographers in its print collection. Some photo-
graphers at the CCP are represented by the largest
public collections of their work held anywhere. In
addition to work by photographers whose archives
are held at the center, the print collection includes
important bodies of work by David Levinthal,
William Christenberry, Tseng Kwong Chi, Todd
Webb, Josef Breitenbach, Lee Friedlander,
Andreas Feininger, Arthur Tress, and Marion
Post Wolcott.
Since its founding in 1975 the CCP has presented
more than 280 exhibitions, many of them traveling
to other institution, including foreign venues in 12
countries. A record of exhibitions between 1975
and 1995 at the Center is detailed inExhibiting
Photography: Twenty Years at the Center for Crea-
tive Photography(1996).
The CCP has an extensive record of publishing
the results of research within its collections in its
journal Center for Creative Photography (later
renamedThe Archive). Issues of the journal have
often been devoted to scholarly essays about parti-
cular bodies of work in the CCP collections, have

provided extensive illustrations of work not pre-

viously published or little known and self-reflex-

ively have addressed the matter of study in

archives itself. A series of scholarly bibliographies

provide access to publications and writings by and

about photographers in the collection; these

includeW. Eugene Smith: a Chronological Biblio-

graphy, 1934–1980(1981) andA. D. Coleman: A

Bibliography of His Writings on Photography from

1968 to 1995(2000). Other publications include

monographs such asSolomon’s Temple: The Eur-

opean Building-Crafts Legacy (1996) by Laura

Volkerding, retrospectives such asReconstruction:

The Art of William Christenberry(1996), collec-

tions of essays, as inHenry Holmes Smith: Col-

lected Writings 1935–1985(1986), an appraisal of

photography in the twentieth century United States

on the occasion of the medium’s 150th anniversary

inDecade by Decade: Twentieth-Century American

Photography (1989), and the extensive catalog

Edward Weston: Photographs: From the Collection

of the Center for Creative Photography(1992).Ori-

ginal Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for

Creative Photography(2002) provides a guide to

the collections of the CCP.

Since 1991 the Ansel Adams Research Fellow-

ship has provided scholars with the opportunity to

research in the Center’s archives, print collections

and library. The Adams Fellowship is provided

twice annually with the support of Polaroid Cor-

poration. Through the auspices of the Center’s

education department visitors are provided the

opportunity to see collection holdings not on exhi-

bition through the print viewing program.

The CCP’s department of rights and reproduc-

tions administers the copyright to work by numer-

ous photographers whose archives are held in the

Center’s collections. These include Lola Alvarez

Bravo, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Adolf Fassbender,

John Gutmann, Otto Hagel, Hansel Mieth, Hans

Namuth, Dorothy Norman, Mickey Pallas, Peter

Stackpole, Laura Volkerding, Edward Weston and

Max Yavno.

LEONE. Zimlich

Seealso:Adams, Ansel; Archives; Callahan, Harry;

Museums: United States; Siskind, Aaron; Sommer,

Frederick

Further Reading

Conger, Amy.Edward Weston: Photographs: From the Collec-

tion of the Center for Creative Photography. Tucson: Cen-

ter for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1992.

Enyeart, James, and Nancy Solomon, eds.Henry Holmes

Smith: Collected Writings 1935–1985, Tucson: Center

CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY