Ansel Adams Gallery Yosemite

[Zaitz]

I tried finding this searching but couldn't. I visited the gallery last month and thought there would be more large originals by Ansel. I am curious as to the smaller prints throughout the gallery. Are most of them digital scans/reproductions and not genuine AA prints? I realize there are only so many originals by him.

Is the AA exhibit that travels from museum to museum worth driving a bit for? Also, any other excellent galleries/exhibits, specifically around Minneapolis? I haven't seen many in my short time with LF. A lot of people at the last Art Fair I was at shot LF though, but that's a bit hit and miss.

[Stephen Lumry]

The Minneapolis Institute of Art has a great permanent photography collection and normally has some good special shows. Weinstein usually has some interesting stuff. Also, take a look at the Minneapolis Photo Center.

[Merg Ross]

The Minneapolis Institute of Art has a great permanent photography collection and normally has some good special shows. Weinstein usually has some interesting stuff. Also, take a look at the Minneapolis Photo Center.

As noted here, The MIA has a fine photography collection. Check out the Scheel Collection of gifted prints, which has Adams' prints among a good selection of other West Coast work.

http://plainsart.org/exhibits/the-fr...ains-part-one/

[dperez]

I tried finding this searching but couldn't. I visited the gallery last month and thought there would be more large originals by Ansel. I am curious as to the smaller prints throughout the gallery. Are most of them digital scans/reproductions and not genuine AA prints? I realize there are only so many originals by him.

Is the AA exhibit that travels from museum to museum worth driving a bit for? Also, any other excellent galleries/exhibits, specifically around Minneapolis? I haven't seen many in my short time with LF. A lot of people at the last Art Fair I was at shot LF though, but that's a bit hit and miss.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the prints sold at the AA Gallery that were not printed by AA himself were printed by Alan Ross.

By the way, be sure to look at the portfolios in the back of the gallery. I especially enjoy Charles Cramer's portfolio (although the pages are starting to get soiled from all the gallery visitors that handle the portfolios on display).

-DP

[ROL]

If I read this correctly, and that may be a first, you would like to view large AA prints.

The AA Gallery prints are a mix of "special edition" and originals. The special edition are/were printed by AA's trusted assistants (i.e., Alan Ross), from his negatives. I believe they're clearly marked as such. I'm not aware of any digital repros other than posters (but then those are really the same thing by my judgement). If you want the current dope on this, call the Gallery.

FYI – as you may have noticed, the Yosemite Gallery is too small to devote wall space to show large prints – and most everyone who visits is only interested in park curios and keepsakes (read AA's autobiography regarding the timelessness of this). There are large AA prints in the Valley. Occasionally they are shown in concessionaire venues. There used to be a (redundantly) huge "Monolith" in the YPCC Mountain Room restaurant. An extremely large print, "Still Life", used to hang above the foyer of the recently changed hands Mono Inn, north of Lee Vining. One other thing about the Gallery is that they used to have "Fine Print Viewing" in the back, for the price of signing up.

As I'm sure you are already aware, AA had open editions, and there are many in both public and private hands. Any touring prints are most certainly originals. Many museums and educational institutions have prints in their collections – call them. I wouldn't be surprised in the least to find out that there would be prints in Minn.

[Zaitz]

Thanks for the responses. I guess I am just an idiot O_O. No surprise there.

Perhaps I expected too much. I have seen the images in his books so many times I just expected the large and real silver prints to be mind blowing. The traveling exhibition will be in South Dakota next spring I think, in MI now. Not too far to travel.

I am always a bit disappointed with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts photography section. Sometimes it seems only half full and the prints on exhibit rarely speak to me for one reason or another.

[Edward (Halifax,NS)]

Perhaps I expected too much. I have seen the images in his books so many times I just expected the large and real silver prints to be mind blowing.

I had the joy to see several Ansel Adams photographs at an exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts several years back. Clearing Winter Storm knocked me on my arse and definitely brought a tear to my eye.

Edward

[tgtaylor]

This is a dated thread but I was in the Valley last month (October) and stopped in the gallery where about a dozen original AA prints were adorning the back wall and a magnificent 30x38 digital reproduction of Jeffrey Pine was facing the entrance priced at a modest $899 matted. Also along the walls were B&W originals from a couple of other artists/photographers, John Sexton being one, but Adam’s originals clearly stole the show. They were priced starting from $8K if I remember correctly.

Thomas

[MDR]

Saw an original print of Moonrise Hernandez a few months ago hanging next to a HCB print, an Edward Curtis platinum print and oposite a three color Carbro print of a christmas bulb by Erwin Blumenfeld at the Gallery Farber in Vienna. I have to admit that even though the Adams print had the best luminosity, I prefered the smaller prints by Blumenfeld and Curtis both prints had sort of a feeling of eternity (if something like that exists) they didn't catch the moment but so much more than that. From the four prints I liked the HCB print the least. I still wouldn't mind if someone gave me the Adams print , it was in a word one of the most beautiful pictures of light I know.

Dominik

[Jim Cole]

I had the joy to see several Ansel Adams photographs at an exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts several years back. Clearing Winter Storm knocked me on my arse and definitely brought a tear to my eye.

Edward

I saw a AA 5x7 print of "Clearing Storm" at an exhibition in San Jose a couple of years ago and couldn't stop going back to it. I think I spent almost 30 minutes in front of it. It is the most stunning print I have ever seen.