Ansel Adams: Performing the Print

Ansel Adams famously said that the photographic negative is like a composer’s score, and the print a performance.  As home of the Ansel Adams Archive, the Center is uniquely positioned to illustrate Adams’s meaning.  This exhibition of twenty-four photographs will feature sets of prints—grouped in twos and threes—that show how on different occasions Adams created varying interpretations from his own negatives.  The exhibition will also feature a small selection of prints that span the master’s six-decade career to highlight Adams’s particular talent and sensitivity as a photographic printer.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.