"As a conservator, it's my responsibility to preserve photographic materials and ensure they're available for future generations to learn from — be it through exhibitions or for researchers or for UA classes that are coming here for print viewings," Gutierrez says.

"Ideally, preservation is about how we provide the right environment, the right handling guidelines and the right display guidelines to ensure that photographs are accessible but not damaged during access."

The center's photographic collection is vast, numbering over 90,000 fine prints and approximately 5 million archival objects. Photographs by Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Barry Goldwater, Aaron Siskind, Garry Winogrand and Mildred Mead make up only a tiny fraction of the collection.

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