Stream, Sea, Clouds, Rodeo Lagoon, Marin County, California, 1962
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge
On view June 9, 2012 to October 8, 2012
Located in the: Special Exhibition Galleries
Ansel Adams' appreciation for water was never far from the surface. He was drawn to the subject in all its forms, from rain, fog, mist and clouds to ice and snow. He also photographed water's effects in tide pools, weathered buildings and erosion patterns. His fascination with surf and crashing waves fed his interest in waterfalls and rapids in the High Sierra. In Yellowstone, it fueled his photographs of Old Faithful.
As in the famous Surf Sequence ca.1940, Adams often photographed water in ways that embrace seriality, motion, and time as meaningful modern themes.
At the Water's Edge combines famous images with extraordinary but lesser-known examples, expanding knowledge of Adams' work and building appreciation for the artist as an important and innovative modernist.
Support for the exhibition was provided by David H. Arrington, the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, and the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.
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Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge is part of PEM's Year of Photography, which is sponsored in part by WBUR, Boston's NPR news station, Hunt's Photo & Video, and Canon.
Images
Reflections at Mono Lake, California, 1948
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Gelatin silver print
David H. Arrington Collection
©2011 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, about 1961
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Barnacles, Cape Cod, 1938
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Waterfall, Northern Cascades, Washington, 1960
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Stream, Sea, Clouds, Rodeo Lagoon, Marin County, California, 1962
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
