Art | With Ansel Adams...

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... .

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. ...