AZPA Tour: Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography at Phoenix Art Museum

At this event you will have the opportunity to meet and hear perspectives about the exhibition from curator, Emilia Mickevicius as she guides members of Arizona Photography Alliance through a private exhibition tour of .

Spanning the medium’s history, Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography explores how photography transforms how we see and reshapes our understanding of time, perception, and reality.

While photographs are often associated with human vision, they also have the power to reveal, transform, and defamiliarize their subjects.

Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the landmark Norton agreement between Phoenix Art Museum and the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson with a presentation of nearly 100 objects from the CCP’s collection, including unexpected treasures by canonical figures, captivating examples of process experimentation and images distinguished by puzzling or playful subject matter, demonstrating the breadth and inventiveness of creative photography.

The tour is limited to 30 AZPA members.

WE WILL MEET IN THE LOBBY AT 5:45PM, PLEASE BE PROMT.

Not a member but would like to attend? See memberships here.

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Image Above: Harold Edgerton, Bullet through Banana, 1964. Dye transfer print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 96.71.5. © Harold Edgerton, MIT, courtesy of Palm Press Inc.

Image Below: Harold Edgerton, Splash of a Milk Drop, ca. 1938, negative 1938; printed 1977. Dye transfer print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Purchase, 78.189.8. © Harold Edgerton, MIT, courtesy of Palm Press Inc.

About the Curator

Emilia Mickevicius is an art historian and curator who specializes in 20th century and contemporary U.S. photography. She joined the Phoenix Art Museum and CCP in 2023 after having served at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In her role as curatorial assistant in SFMOMA’s photography department, she organized and contributed to exhibitions such as Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection (2022); (2023), the current SFMOMA exhibit, (2023) among others.

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