Center for Creative Photography

The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Garry Winogrand, as well as a collection of over 80,000 images representing more than 2,000 photographers.

The center also houses the archives for Ansel Adams, including all negatives known to exist at the time of his death.

The CCP collects, preserves, interprets, and makes available materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history.

In 1989, the CCP relocated to its current 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2) location, which is part of the university's Fine Arts Complex.

Among the photographers represented in the center's art collection are Lola Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon,[1] Josef Breitenbach, Dean Brown, Wynn Bullock, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Andreas Feininger, Oliver Gagliani, R. J. Kern, Margrethe Mather, Ray McSavaney, William Mortensen, Marion Palfi, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Rosalind Solomon, Frederick Sommer, Peter Stackpole, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Tseng Kwong Chi, Laura Volkerding, Willard Van Dyke and Bill Jay.

Interior of the center