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A New Look On A Veritable Master

Ansel Adams’s ‘Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park’ (about 1937) PHOTO: © THE ANSEL ADAMS PUBLISHING RIGHTS TRUST/MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Ansel Adams has often been looked upon as the master of black-and-white landscape photography. Yet this longstanding status as guru of the craft has not been without its manifold critics.

This Wall Street Journal article highlights a new exhibition “Ansel Adams in Our Time” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which seeks to bring new understanding to the old virtuoso (1902-1984), especially in comparing and contrasting more modern artists.

I’d love to peruse this exhibit.