The landscapes that commanded Adams’s interest have also inspired a new generation of artists, and the show explores Adams’s legacy by including works by contemporary photographers who investigate his photographic ideals. The Chrysler’s exhibition includes all twenty-five works in the “Museum Set,” which covers the range of Adams’s career and highlights several locations, including Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada, the San Francisco Bay, and the Colorado Plateau. Also an impassioned conservationist, Adams enlisted his sublime imagery in his lifelong efforts to preserve America’s unspoiled landscapes. With their unprecedented luminosity and tonal range, his stunning images of the Yosemite Valley and other dramatic Western sites set new standards for black-and-white photography.
Inheriting much from the painters of the Hudson River School and nineteenth-century photographers, Adams carried forward their love of America’s landscape and their reverence for untamed nature into the twentieth century. Adams’s stunning black and white photographs of the Yosemite Valley and other dramatic Western sites are renowned for their unprecedented luminosity and tonal range, refinements Adams perfected through cutting-edge photographic techniques and materials.Īnsel Adams stands at the pinnacle of twentieth-century American photography. The Chrysler celebrates the donation of this portfolio with the exhibition From Ansel Adams to Infinity. One portfolio was acquired by the Stokes family of Hampton Roads, who worked with Adams to select the works printed for the portfolio. Released in the early 1980s, these portfolios came to be known as the “Museum Set.” Collectors could purchase a large portfolio of seventy-five prints or choose their own group of twenty-five that Adams would print himself, with the stipulation the prints would eventually be donated to a museum or similar institution. gallery owner Maggi Weston, Adams reviewed more than 2,500 negatives of works originally made between 19 to issue a select group of prints representing his finest photographic accomplishments. Toward the end of his seven-decade career, the famed photographer Ansel Adams began focusing on his artistic legacy, writing an autobiography and issuing portfolios of his most famous and technically accomplished works.Īssisted by Carmel, Calif. Lane Stokes, 83.633.3 © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust 1968, printed 1980,Ĭhrysler Museum of Art, gift of Dr. Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California, ca.
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