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Article: Ansel Adams center closes. (Front Page).(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Despite recently renewed interest in the work of Ansel Adams, largely due to a popular retrospecrive currently on view at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art [to Jan. 13, before an international tour], the Friends of Photography and its Ansel Adams Center for Photography, ceased operations at the end of October. Friends of Photography was founded by Adams and others in 1967 in Carmel, Calif. The organization moved to San Francisco in 1989, five years after Adams's death, and opened the center, which held exhibitions of works by various photographers, ran a bookstore and education programs, and administered several photography prizes. During the dot-com boom in the city ...