Ansel Adams’ Photo Proofs on View
By Ryan • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Martha Waggoner on www.cleveland.com:
“ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — They are photos Ansel Adams never intended anyone to see — tiny proofs taken with a handheld camera of a landscape that lacks the grandeur captured in his portraits of the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite National Park.
But thanks to some connections and a quirk of inheritance law, and over the objections of the trust that controls use of Adams’ work, the few dozen 5-inch-square proofs are now on display at a small museum not far from the inland waterway where Adams shot the pictures in 1940.
‘Adams’ prints are perfection,’ exhibit curator Stephen Jareckie said. ‘But these proofs have a certain vitality that you don’t find in a finished print. It gives them an educational point of view and shows the public what Adams’ work is like at that stage — a work in progress.’”
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