The PRC pops up at CambridgeSide
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated May 5, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
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Bruce Myren, Black Lives Matter, Robert Frost Trail, 2020Bruce Myren/courtesy Gallery Kayafas
CAMBRIDGE â Thereâs a rather marvelous photograph of Ansel Adams at work. Taken by Cedric Wright, in 1942, it shows Adams standing with his tripod and camera on a specially made platform atop a Ford station wagon. The wagon is a classic âwoodie.â Visible in the background is Yosemiteâs Half Dome.
Itâs a reminder that even Adams, the most famous photographic presenter of nature at its most pristine, was an emissary from the manmade world. Or as the curator John Szarkowski once wrote, âAdams was happiest in the high mountains, where he lived, for a while, on tinned hash, bourbon whiskey, and visions.â Only one of those three items naturally occurs in the great outdoors.