Ansel Adams Arrives!

After much anticipation and excitement, Ansel Adams: A Legacy officially opened at the Booth Museum on Saturday, September 25. Occupying two galleries, this is the largest temporary exhibition ever held at the Museum, as well as the largest Ansel Adams collection ever displayed in Georgia.
The works in A Legacy, originally printed by the artist himself in his California darkroom, were given to his organization, The Friends of Photography, and initially displayed as an exhibition in China. The Booth Museum exhibition showcases these works in the intimate scale Adams intended, and also includes educational components unique to the Museum including a 20th Century darkroom replica, a walk-in camera structure with footage of Adams, and a baby grand player piano representing Adams' early career as a concert pianist.

To kick-off the exciting five months of Ansel Adams, award winning photographer John Mariana presented a lecture on Thursday, September 16. Speaking in the words of Adams, Mariana shared how Adams' childhood influenced the man he became, how he became interested in photography, and the process he went through in creating his photographs.

On the Opening Day, September 25, photo-historian and curator Susan Todd-Raque presented two lectures on the life and career of Ansel Adams.

Additional speakers will also share insights into the world of Ansel Adams throughout the run of the exhibition, including Shannon Perich, Associate Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Perich will present Ansel Adams: Building the Legacy, during the Booth Museum's annual Cowboy Festival & Symposium on Friday, October 22, at 11:30 am.

Ansel Adams: A Legacy will be on display at the Booth Museum from now through February 20, 2011.

**Thanks to Howard Pousner at the Atlanta Journal Constitution for the great article he wrote about Ansel Adams: A Legacy**