Art | With Ansel Adams...
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2006 by Edward J. Sozanski
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Ansel Adams has been done to death, hasn't he? Apparently not. The famed American photographer is one of those marquee artists whom museums love to show because they guarantee a strong turnout. Indeed, on the recent weekday when I saw "Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius" at the James A. Michener Art Museum, there were more visitors in the main special-exhibition gallery than I had encountered there in years.
However, a disconcerting sign of the times: At any given moment, more people were watching a video about Adams than were looking at his photographs. It's admittedly a captivating program, especially the segment in which Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe chat about life and art, but still... .
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This latest Adams exhibition of 150 black-and-white prints comes from the museum of photography and film at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., which owns a large body of his work. ...
