I had the most unexpected experience last week regarding Ansel Adams and Paul Strand.
A little background - I'm an architect by profession and have a project underway to design a new building at a school in the Monterey, CA area. Our kickoff meeting with the faculty members there was at the Library at the school.
I got to the Library a little early and imagine my surprise when the first thing I see on the wall is "Winter Sunrise From Lone Pine" by Adams in a size at least 20 x 24. I'm thinking "What's going on here?" Then I turn around and see three wonderful Paul Strand iamges from his "Mexican Portfolio". The farther through the Library I went, the more Strand portfolio images I saw ranging in sizes from 5 x 6.25 to 8 x 10. I've seen many Adams prints before but never any Strand images, and they must have the whole Mexican portfolio in that library.
I'm willing to bet that probably most of the kids who go to that school and probably many of the teachers don't even know what they have in their library.
Can't wait to go back and enjoy the artwork more.
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