Opening January 11, 2020, at the Phoenix Art Museum is Ansel Adams: Performing the Print, an exhibition that will feature 60 photographs from the Ansel Adams Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, housed at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Winter Sunrise, the Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California, 1944, gelatin silver print, 149/16 x 193/16”. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Ansel Adams Archive/Purchase, 78.152.28. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, 1968, gelatin silver print, 15¼ x 19½”. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Ansel Adams Archive, 76.577.17. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
The exhibition will show the photographs in groups of two and three to emphasize how Adams created varying interpretations depending on the images he selected. The museum explains, “…using the same score, Adams was constantly revising the way it was performed.” The exhibition will also examine how Adams cropped and printed the image from the original negative, and how, over time, his methods evolved with his perspective. The photographs will span across Adams’ six-decade career, and many will be accompanied by quotations from his published writing.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Spanish-American Youth, Chama Valley, New Mexico, ca. 1937, gelatin silver print, 9 x 129/16”. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Ansel Adams Archive, 84.89.90. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
The exhibition will take place from January 11 to May 10, 2020, in the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum. For more information visit www.phxart.org. —
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