Article: Seeing nature: Ansel Adams in the human and natural environments of Yosemite.(Portz-Prize-Winning Essay, 2004)

Wallace Stegner once hailed the legacy of Ansel Adams as bringing photography to the world of art as a unique "way of seeing." (1) What Adams saw through the lens of his camera, and what audiences see when looking at one of his photographs, does indeed constitute a particular way of seeing the world, a vision that is almost always connected to the natural environment. An Ansel Adams photograph evokes more than an aesthetic response to his work--it also stirs reflections about his involvement in the natural world that was so often his subject. Audiences experiencing his work participate in a deliberate conception of wilderness, the national parks, and especially Adams's ...

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