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Article: 'You are there' intimacy of Ansel Adams.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 19, 2002
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Byline: M.S. Mason Television critic of The Christian Science Monitor
We all know them - we've seen reproductions of Ansel Adams photographs in books, on postcards, in magazines, and on the walls of businesses and museums.
They are synonymous with the American West and American high-art photography. But how many of us know the man behind the camera? A remarkable TV documentary by Ric Burns, "Ansel Adams," a tribute to Earth Day (PBS, April 21, 9-10:30 p.m., check local listings), fills in the blanks.
It does more than just tell Adams's story - the film puts in motion many of the same sites Adams froze in time, and thus attains a kind of ...