'ONE-OF-A-KIND' Photography Exhibition Opens Today at Phoenix Art Museum

One-of-a-Kind: Unique Photographic Objects from the Center for Creative Photography will be at Phoenix Art Museum from today, April 11 to October 25, 2015.

This exhibition challenges the expectation that photographs are infinitely reproducible multiples. Typically photographs are printed from a negative or digital capture, and can be produced in editions ranging from a few prints to several hundred. However some photographic processes -- including daguerreotypes, tintypes and Polaroid prints -- produce only a single, one-of-a-kind object. In other cases, artists choose to use materials in a way that produces a unique artwork, such as sculpting and collaging with or painting and drawing on photographs.

This exhibition includes works from the entire history of the photographic medium, from the 1840s to the present day. Unique photographs in the exhibition include photographs by David Emitt Adams, Pierre Cordier, Betty Hahn, Bill Jay, Chris McCaw, Joyce Neimanas, Susan Rankaitis and Andy Warhol.

The exhibition is organized by The Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum. Additional support provided by: Snell & Wilmer. #1ofakindphoto.

Since opening in 1959 Phoenix Art Museum has provided access to visual arts and educational programs in Arizona and become the largest art museum in the Southwestern United States. Top national and international exhibitions are shown alongside the museum's collection of more than 17,000 objects of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, photography and fashion design. The museum hosts photography exhibitions through its landmark partnership with The University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Visitors can also enjoy the PhxArtKids gallery, the Dorrance Sculpture Garden, the Thorne Miniature Rooms of historic interiors, and a collection of works by renowned Arizona artist Philip C. Curtis. For additional information, visit phxart.org or call 602-257-1880.