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Article: Adams and Stieglitz: a friendship: when Ansel Adams met Alfred Steiglitz in 1933, the two photographers embarked on an enduring personal relationship that was the most important of Adams's artistic life.(Photography II)
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- Art in America
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- January 1, 2005
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The exhibition honoring Ansel Adams's centenary (the last stop of its extensive tour was the Museum of Modern Art, New York) offered a major reevaluation of this photographer. Until now we have known Adams's work much differently: there were many early pictures in this show, works from the 1920s and '30s not often seen. Perhaps a third of all the photographs included were unique prints. And the prints themselves were a revelation--smaller and more tonally rich than the later prints, from the '50s on, to which we have grown accustomed.
Adams lived a long and extremely productive life, and when he died in 1984 at the age of 82 he was one of the last photographers ...
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Article: Alfred Stieglitz
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...Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), American photographer, editor, and art gallery ... the battle to win recognition for photography as an art. Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, N.J., on Jan. 1, 1864. In 1871 the ...
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