03/15/2024
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📷 COMING SOON! Ansel Adams Retrospective to Premiere at the Cincinnati Art Museum September 27, 2024–January 19, 2025
CAM will present an unprecedented exploration of the early career of Ansel Adams, demonstrating how, between 1916 and the 1940s, Adams developed from a teenage tourist with a camera into the country’s most celebrated photographer. Drawn from the definitive Adams archive at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson, Discovering Ansel Adams will be on view in the Thomas R. Schiff Galleries (234 and 235).
The exhibition brings together approximately 80 photographs with unique ephemera including handwritten correspondence, snapshots, personal possessions, and photographic working materials. Featured photographs range from small, one-of-a-kind prints from Adams’s teenage years to jaw-dropping, mural-sized prints of his most iconic views.
Discovering Ansel Adams traces the artist’s professional evolution—sharing his journey from teenage musician to young mountaineer—as he experiences the American Southwest, imagines and learns how to communicate with a new national audience, and undertakes an epic quest to photograph America’s national parks.
Dr. Rebecca Senf, foremost Adams scholar, organizing curator, and Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography shares, “After twenty years of research on Ansel Adams, it is a delight to share these spectacular prints and rare archival materials with the Cincinnati Art Museum’s audience. I hope that learning about Adams’s personal and professional journey, seeing rarely shown prints, and exploring how the prints were made will enrich people’s appreciation of Ansel Adams images they already know.”
The exhibition will offer insight into Adams’s experiences in Yosemite and with the Sierra Club in his formative years, his early forays in the art of bookmaking and his commercial endeavors in his beloved Yosemite National Park and elsewhere in the American West. These seldom-explored backstories lend new dimensions to the Adams we know, and to his guiding mission to communicate the power and importance of America’s wild places to broad audiences. Personal snapshots, letters, tools and working material provide an intimate look at the person behind the camera.
Discovering Ansel Adams is a Featured Project in the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial: backstories.
Discovering Ansel Adams is organized by the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, with the support of The Museum Box.
Support for this 2024 FotoFocus Biennial Featured Project was provided by FotoFocus.
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Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984), The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942, gelatin silver print, image 39 15/16 x 51 1/4 in. (101.4 x 130.1 cm), Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Ansel Adams Archive, 76.562.2, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Ansel Adams
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