Ansel Adams' Best at the Getty in LA

[Peter Collins]

Folks,
Ansel Adams' selection of his best images is at the Getty Museum, LA, from March 18 through July 20, 2014. For more info, see:
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_ansel_adams/

I'm hoping that it will travel around the US after July...LA so far from Michigan.

[Heroique]

My life will near completion when I can, finally, stand in front of a print by his hand, "The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming."

It's part of this show.

In The Print, AA calls it "dramatic," "powerful," "very strong."

He's not shy about this one – I think I understand and feel why.

[Michael Clark]

All right thanks for the tip Peter.

Mike

[Harley Goldman]

Thanks for the heads up. I will have to get down to LA for this.

[ROL]

My wife has asked me to be her date at next week's lecture at the Getty, Ansel Adams, The Wild and Uncultivated. I hope the exhibition will be open prior to the talk, as has been the custom.

FWIW, I've consistently found that when multiple photographers are shown at the Getty exhibits, it's abundantly easy to locate AA when entering a room. There's always a crowd around those.

[Jim Jones]

Only 24 prints? the current Oklahoma City Museum exhibit is over twice that size, and the recent Peoria exhibit was over a hundred prints plus some other Adams memorabilia.

[Darin Boville]

it's abundantly easy to locate AA when entering a room. There's always a crowd around those.

Don't take that too seriously. It may just be a measure of our ignorance.

I remember two years ago standing in a side gallery at the Louvre looking at northern German work. Largely empty of people in there but every few minutes a mini-mob would arrive, glazed-eyed and desperate-looking, a piece of paper in hand. They would scan the room, looking up and down at their paper until they saw it, the Durer self-portrait. They would race over, crowd around, and ooh and ahhh. Seven seconds later they were gone. Surrounding the self portrait were well-known works by Baldung and Cranach the Elder. Didn't warrant a glance.

--Darin

[Darin Boville]

Well, this is cool. The Getty show has an illustrated "checklist"--very nice. Very useful. Every exhibit everywhere should have one of these.

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions..._checklist.pdf

--Darin

[ROL]

Don't take that too seriously. It may just be a measure of our ignorance.

All seriousness aside, that's nutty. An opinion on everything, incredible or not, eh Darin? People like and respond to what they like.

[ROL]

My life will near completion when I can, finally, stand in front of a print by his hand, "The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming."

Am I doing you or any one else a favor in suggesting that it is very likely that there is one very near you already? Contact your museums, libraries or universities to see if they got one in their collections.

This exhibit looks to be drawn from their collections. I don't see anything suggesting it will be touring the country. There's just too much Ansel already out there.