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Awestruck; 20th-century photography.('Ansel Adams at 100' exhibit)(Brief Article)
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The Economist (US)
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January 5, 2002
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Did Ansel Adams take beautiful photographs or photograph beautiful things? The arguments still rage, as a new exhibition shows
ANSEL ADAMS already has a mountain named after him. Now a second monument is being raised to the great American landscape photographer, who died in 1984. "Ansel Adams at 100", a landmark travelling exhibition curated by John Szarkowski for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will transfer first to Chicago, then London and Berlin, before returning to America. It will reappear in Los Angeles and, in July 2003, in New York.
Adams worshipped landscape, specifically the Rocky Mountains and his beloved Yosemite National Park, where the ...
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