Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius is at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA.
From the website: Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius presents work from the 1920s through the 1960s, including an early 1927 portfolio (one of only fifty produced) of Parmelian prints (gelatin silver emulsion on parchment paper). For the first time, George Eastman House is pleased to include this portfolio from its collection in this exhibition. Featured are many of Adams's most famous images of the American West — Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941; Mount Williamson from Manzanar, California, ca. 1944; and Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, 1927. But prepare to discover equally stupendous (if less well-known), images such as Mud Hills, Arizona or Water and Foam, or the wonderful abstract titled simply, Stained Wallpaper Near Alturas, Calif. Many will be surprised to see that Adams did not confine himself to landscapes, but also made portraits and other subjects as humble as fence posts into images nearly as monumental as his beloved mountain ranges.
I came across this recently: The Zone System: Why bother at all?
Adams developed the zone system to make it easier to get what he previsualized—onto the print.
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