On 9/28/2012 10:47 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
> Taken last Saturday morning:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/TufaSunrisePanoCrop.jpg.html
>
> No bench...
> Always best viewed large. from visiting the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem
> Mass, where, among other things, we viewed "Ansel Adams: At the Water's
> Edge", quite a large exhibition of St. Ansel's prints.
Just got back from visiting the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem Mass with Mike &
Marnie, where, among other things, we
viewed "Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge", quite a large exhibition of St.
Ansel's prints.
It includes an image of a sunrise on Mono Lake, which I think more than a bit
poorer than this one of yours.
The exhibit is clearly a success, very busy today. It's interesting not least
because it includes a fair number of
images he made as a pre-teen and teen, which show his natural eye for
composition. There's also a nice image of the
Palace of Fine Arts in SF that is a lovely example of Pictorialism, showing his
very early ability to create in the then
current artistic idiom. It would have been a great addition to the Pictorialism
and Group F64 exhibit at the Portland
Museum last year.
It felt padded with lots of relatively pedestrian images from the late 50s and
60s. Perfectly decent images, but they
didn't engage me or Carol. A lot of them would not be on any public wall were
they not by Adams. I was happy to see
them, to give me a broader idea of his work, but they were just not first rank.
There were a few of his really great images in good prints, and it's always a
joy to see them in person.
Lookin' Moose
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