Ansel Adams

The University of Arizona'a Center for Creative Photography holds a large collection of photographs and other memorabilia of the famous Western photographer, Ansel Adams.  Some pieces are displayed at Artis Naples' Baker Museum through August 2.

 

I toured the exhibition quickly with a docent two weeks ago, soon after the exhibition opened. This week I went back alone to look at the pieces more carefully by myself.

Both of these images of vertically aligned trees are crisp and clean and invite attention.

Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park (1945).  I would have liked to see this in a larger format.

I especially liked Adams' portrait Man of Taos.  The man is a friend of Adams, but Adams named it more generically to give the portrait symbolism and timeliness.

The large Grand Canyon photograph makes a bigger impression than the small images of the Grand Canyon to the right.

In this portrait of Adams' friend, the artist Georgia O'Keefe, with a mutual friend, O'Keefe has a wonderfully mischievous expression. 

This image of ferns in Hawaii National Park (1949) is a favorite.