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Article: American genius behind the shutter.(Museums Today)(Ansel Adams)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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"The exhibition 'Ansel Adams' gives us the opportunity to explore the hidden EIE depths of an artist known for just a few iconic images. The wide range and high quality of pictures ... reveal a photographer with many dimensions, not just the well-known maker of dramatic landscapes," notes Paul Roth, curator of photography and media arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Adams' photographic style, which fuses romanticism, poetic vision, technical precision, and environmental advocacy, has had an unparalleled influence on all landscape photography in its wake--and on how Americans see and think about their country's wilderness areas.
Born in 1902 to ...