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Article: PBS portrait goes behind the eyes of Ansel Adams.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2002
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Byline: Matt Schudel
In his later years, with his white beard and big hat, Ansel Adams was the grandfather figure of environmental photography, a kind of Burl Ives of the Sierra Club. By the time he died in 1984, both he and his pictures of mountains, meadows and skies were so famous that they seemed to have been part of our visual landscape almost as long as the mountains themselves.
So thoroughly did Adams define American nature photography that it's easy to forget how startling and fresh those images were when he came down from the mountain with his first glass plates. Born exactly a century ago, he was a true American original, an aesthete and a ...