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March Issue 2001

Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, Presents a 100th Anniversary Salute to Ansel Adams

"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. "Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these too are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation. Art is the affirmation of life. And life, or its eternal evidence, is everywhere."

Ansel Adams

 

In approach of the 100th anniversary of Ansel Adams' birth on Feb. 20, 1902, the Mint Museum of Art salutes America's most heralded landscape photographer, by presenting a selection of 25 of his works from the museum's permanent collection over the next 12 months. Because of light sensitivity, twelve of the photographs are on display in the Crist Gallery now through Aug. 12. The additional 13 photographs will be shown from Aug. 17 through Apr. 14, 2002.

The 25 photographs were taken in California, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas and Alaska between 1930 and 1960. Adams was a pioneer of the new pictorial landscape as well as a member of the romantic artists who viewed the wilderness as a metaphor for freedom. His special creativity was his ability to visualize the combined effect of exposure and development of the final image.

The initial 12 photographs on display, from a collection donated by Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Scotese, include Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, (Yosemite National Park); Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake (Denali National Park, Alaska); Aspens, North New Mexico; Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico; and Sand Bar, Rio Grande.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the museum at 704/337-2000 or on the web at (http://www.mintmuseum.org).

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