Ansel Adams
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11 July - 22 September 2002
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is an iconic figure in the history of American photography. His photographs of the American wilderness, from stark desert to the mountains of Yosemite and the High Sierra, provide, for many, a defining image of the American landscape.
Ansel Adams at 100 celebrated the centenary of the artist’s birth and bought together 114 of his finest photographs drawn from important public and private collections. Although Adams’s work is well known and has been exhibited widely around the world, this major exhibition was the first serious attempt since his death in 1984 to re-evaluate his achievement as an artist.
The exhibition focused on the first part of his career, from the 1920s to the 1940s and situated such icons as El Capitan within the context of an unexpected and less familiar body of photographs. It also highlighted Adams’s interest in abstraction and the mysteries of light.
The exhibition was organised by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and made possible by Hewlett-Packard.
