Ansel Adams: Distance and Detail

OPENS MAY 26

Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer, environmentalist, and social activist, is recognized as one of America's foremost photographers. HIs life's work established photography as a truly legitimate art form, inspiring new ways of seeing and communicating. His long career represents a prolific and rich contribution to American culture including many hundreds of images that continue to profoundly influence the practice of the art of photography to this day.

 

Drawn from the art collection of Bank of America, this exhibition includes thirty of Adams’ most iconic photographs.
 


Photo: Leaf, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word, In Memory of Russell Varian (1940-1963), 1963.
Photograph by Ansel Adams. ©2012 Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

 

Click here for a PDF of a chronology of Ansel Adams Life.

 

This Exhibition is provided by Bank of America Art in our Communities Program.

 

Sponsored in part by:         RACC

 

Unless otherwise noted, all special exhibits are included with museum admission.

  

 *Please note the Museum will be closed from 4-6pm and will re-open for those 21+ from 6-8:30pm on May, 30* 

 

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Located in Portland’s beautiful Washington Park, our 20,000 square foot museum is sure to delight anyone from ages 3 to 103.  Visitors will be both educated and entertained as they learn about the importance of forests and trees in our lives, as well as environmental sustainability.