LOT 110 (three photographs)
ALLEN DUTTON (1922-2017) ME AND PILL BOX , 1983 vintage gelatin silver print; 4 x 5 in. (image), 8 x 10 in. (sheet); dry mounted and matted; signed, titled, dated, recto in pencil. Condition: Excellent. ADU-0005

ALLEN DUTTON (1922-2017) ME AND VICTORIA , 1983 vintage gelatin silver print; 4 x 5 in. (image), 8 x 10 in. (sheet); dry mounted and matted; signed, titled, dated, recto in pencil. Condition: Excellent. ADU-0006

ALLEN DUTTON (1922-2017) ME AND OLD DRIFTER , 1983 vintage gelatin silver print; 4 x 5 in. (image), 8 x 10 in. (sheet); dry mounted and matted; signed, titled, dated, recto in pencil. Condition: Excellent. ADU-0007

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ALLEN DUTTON
“Through his work as an educator, photographer and curator at Phoenix College, Allen Dutton has made many contributions to the field during five decades here in Arizona,” remarked Dr. Rebecca Senf, the Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum (now Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography.

Dutton’s interest in documenting change in Arizona led to an ambitious project of photographing every street corner in every town in Arizona. His eclectic interests include nude camera studies, landscapes, portraits, and a series that takes a humorous look at retired life in Sun City, Arizona.

Dutton is perhaps best known for his celebrated book, Arizona Then & Now. He also founded the photography program at Phoenix College, the flagship campus of the Maricopa Community Colleges. Dutton joined the art department at Phoenix College in 1960 and eventually became department headand photography program director, retiring in 1982.

While at Phoenix College, Dutton assembled a collection of works by some of the 20th century’s most important photographers, including Nathan Lyons, Brett and Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro and Minor White, and began an exhibition program at the College. Few college campuses were teaching photography then, and even fewer collecting the medium, and Dutton quickly created a photography program that at the time was considered the finest in the western United States. His exhibitions gained national recognition and exposed a generation of students to the works of these master photographers.

The photography program at Phoenix College continues today, and in 2010, the Allen A. Dutton Center for Photography, a suite of labs and classroom space, was dedicated in the new Phoenix College Fine Arts Building in recognition of Dutton’s lasting contributions to the program.

A prolific photographer, Dutton exhibited his work worldwide and published eight books. He is represented in numerous public collections, including the Center for Creative Photography, Yale University Art Gallery and The Museum of Modern Art, to name a few. The Arizona Historical Society houses an archive of more than 25,000 of Dutton’s photographs documenting the state’s people andplaces. Allen Dutton passed away in 2017.

https://artintersection.com/blog/allen-dutton-recipient-of-infocus-founders-award/

Excellent

8 x 10 in