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Ansil Adams
Title: Ansil Adams
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 4249 | Pages: 18.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ansil Adams
The year 2002 marks a symbolic milestone in the history of photography. A century ago, on February 20, 1902, Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco. (In an unusually good week for California creativity, John Steinbeck was born exactly seven days later in Salinas). A flurry of tributes, from books and documentary films to a record number of museum exhibitions, is currently honoring the centennial of America's favorite photographer. For many, he is the only photographer. The vision of Adams, with broad-brimmed hat and beard, fussing with his …showed first 85 words of 4249 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 4249 total…and could be taken away. He also realized that the prints that he selected for this exhibition would travel throughout the country long after his death and be seen by all. As a body of work, these prints illustrate Adams's concern that ";the dragons of demand have been kept at snarling distance by the St. Georges of conservation, but the menace remains. Only education can enlighten our people -150; education and its accompanying interpretation, and the seeking of resonances of understanding in the contemplation of Nature.";16
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