Ansel Adams viewed through a wider lens
Portland Art Museum show adds contemporary context to famed photographer s legacy
The Portland Art Museum has reopened, and soon it will present an exhibit by one of the foremost American landscape photographers. Ansel Adams in Our Time, available to view by members April 28 and the public May 5, puts the photographer s work in context, showing what came before and what s going on now in relation the master s monolithic brand.
So, although his work is remembered as calendar-friendly shots such as Moon Over Half Dome (1960) and Jeffrey Pine Sentinel Dome, there s more to the Adams look than western crags, wild clouds and crisp shadows.
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By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 6:57 p.m.
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Welcome back to HomeFront, where weâre listening to metal and punk covers of
âLet It Snowâ (surprisingly soothing) and thinking about a Laura Ingalls Wilder book other than âThe Long Winterâ for a change. This time itâs âFarmer Boy,â in which Almanzoâs father says, âWhen the days begin to lengthen / The cold begins to strengthen.â Yes, I
am a lot of fun at parties.
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Abelardo Morell keeps sharing âtricks the camera can doâ
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated February 17, 2021, 9:00 a.m.
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Abelardo Morell has spent a lot of time inside cameras. Literally. Often with several other people.
Thirty years ago, the photographer, now 72, was the first artist to shoot the inside of a camera obscura. The work made a name for him, and in the years since, he has built an international reputation on a broad body of work.
Anyone can make a camera obscura. Mask all the light from a room except for a tiny hole in one window shade. Morell did this regularly in classrooms at Massachusetts College of Art, where he taught from 1983 to 2011. An upside-down image of whatever was across Brookline Avenue would stream in and project on the opposite wall.