Exhibition: Face to Face - 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture

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Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture explores the photographic portrait - the stories portraits can tell, the ways photographers convey the essence of their subjects and the impact of the relationship between photographer and subject. Including nearly 60 portraits from the Center for Creative Photography, as well as key loans from a few local collections, the exhibition raises engaging questions:

How does a portrait become iconic?
What is unique about a photographic self-portrait?
What are the advantages of working in the studio, or in the field?
How do photographers use setting, pose, camera angle, or scale to add meaning to a picture?

Prints by some of the greatest portraitists and photographic image-makers of the 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century are included: Southworth and Hawes, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Yousuf Karsh and Richard Avedon.

September 19, 2009 – January 10, 2010

Location: Norton Photography Gallery in Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ

General Museum Hours
Wednesday, 10am-9pm
Thursday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Sunday, 12pm-5pm
First Friday Evenings, 6-10pm
Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays

General Admission:
$10 adults
$8 senior citizens & fulltime college/university students w/ID
$4 children ages 6-17
Free for Museum members & children under age 6
Special policies and fees may apply to ticketed and special admission exhibitions