Center for Creative Photography Digital Collections

The Center for Creative Photography holds more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation. These holdings include a research collection featuring the archives of over 50 photographers - 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.

Individuals or groups are invited to study works in the art collection by making an appointment. Researchers from all over the world visit the CCP to study the vast archives. CCP shares its collection with museums, educators, and publishers internationally through its Rights and Reproductions Department, with loans to exhibitions organized by other institutions and by offering original traveling exhibitions. Collection photographs and archival materials are on view in the Center's exhibitions and are reproduced in its publications; the Center also loans works from its holdings to other institutions.

The Center's collections of photographs by Ansel Adams, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Edward Weston, and many other artists are now available on the University of Arizona Institutional Repository.
From ACRL's Choice review, August 2010 "This easily navigable Web site contains some of the most iconic images produced by both Adams and Weston. The images are accessible under the headings Artists, Collections, or Images (where they are arranged alphabetically). Each image is accompanied by information about the artist, title, date of the image, image size, and medium. One hopes that the works of additional photographers will be added to this digital collection, along with anecdotal information about the works. This site is an exceptional resource for anyone interested in photography, photographic history, or art photography." http://www.creativephotography.org/index.html