DISCOVER ANSEL ADAMS, MOST CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHER

PRIVATE TOUR: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6TH – MEET AT 10:45. TOUR 1 HOUR. LUNCH AT TERRACE CAFÉ (write [email protected] if not attending lunch). CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM. PARK IN LOT IN BACK.

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Photography is permitted, but no flash.

MEET TO THE RIGHT OF THE WELCOME DESK.

The Cincinnati Art Museum will premiere an unprecedented exploration of the early career of Ansel Adams, demonstrating how, between 1916 and the 1940s, Adams developed from a teenage tourist with a camera into the country’s most celebrated photographer. Drawn from the definitive Adams archive at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson.

The exhibition brings together approximately 80 photographs with unique ephemera including handwritten correspondence, snapshots, personal possessions, and photographic working materials. Featured photographs range from small, one-of-a-kind prints from Adams’s teenage years to jaw-dropping, mural-sized prints of his most iconic views.

Discovering Ansel Adams traces the artist’s professional evolution—sharing his journey from teenage musician to young mountaineer—as he experiences the American Southwest, imagines and learns how to communicate with a new national audience, and undertakes an epic quest to photograph America’s national parks.

The exhibition will offer insight into Adams’s experiences in Yosemite and with the Sierra Club in his formative years, his early forays in the art of bookmaking and his commercial endeavors in his beloved Yosemite National Park and elsewhere in the American West. These seldom-explored backstories lend new dimensions to the Adams we know, and to his guiding mission to communicate the power and importance of America’s wild places to broad audiences. Personal snapshots, letters, tools and working material provide an intimate look at the person behind the camera.