He took in the 1920s to document Sierra Club outings to the great,
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Range of Adams' professional work, from small, yellowing snapshots York this summer, having already visited San Francisco, Chicago, Modern Art and now at its penultimate stop (it will move to New Traveling exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Until May 11, the museum is hosting "Ansel Adams at 100," a Role such images have played over the past century in creating aīroad public appreciation for landscapes as scenery, perhaps to theĬorrect that amnesia and reflect on the mistakes in perception thatįlow from it may be found at the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art. And in forgetting this, we fail to appreciate the Gravity-defying towers of Grand Teton, the implacable immensity ofĭenali in Alaska. Introduced to the labyrinthine depths of the Grand Canyon, the Not ubiquitous, when there was still a large public waiting to be
When photographs of Yosemite and the other great Western parks were Synonymous with the landscapes themselves, that we regard them The images he produced have become so well-known, so imitated, so Imagination in a way that is difficult to appreciate today, when In turn, his work would come to dominate America's Shadow on water, rock and tree - came to dominate his professional Walls of granite, snow-draped crags, the interplay of light and Love, and the dramatic objects of his affection - those soaring Took that first trip from their San Francisco home to California'sīest-known national park, it required two days to drive across theĬentral Valley and penetrate the Nevada foothills.Ī journey whose difficulty emphasized the separateness of that In the summer of 1916, when he and his family Or paintbrush seem inadequate to support dreams of artisticĪnsel Adams was 14 when he used a Kodak BrownieĬamera to take his first pictures of Yosemite National Park's
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Pictures that betray no hint of visual genius. History began his career by snapping the kind of family vacation One of the most celebrated photographers in American Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now
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