ISBN: 9781597114486
Contributors
Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas. Text by Julia Dolan, Sara Krajewski, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Interviewer Kellie Jones. By Bobby Martin.
Hank Willis Thomas (born in Plainfield, New Jersey, 1976) received his BFA from New York University, and an MFA in photography and an MA in visual criticism from California College of the Arts. His first monograph,
Pitch Blackness, was published by Aperture in 2008. His collaborative projects include the book and traveling exhibition
Question Bridge: Black Males, the installation
In Search of the Truth, and For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC, founded in 2016. In 2017, Thomas received the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in South Africa.
Artwork by Arlene Holtz Coming Out of the Fog, by East Liberty artist Arlene Holtz. During the pandemic, Holtz began exploring a warmer color palette with more reds, oranges and yellows.
Artwork by Arlene Holtz Coming Out of the Fog, by East Liberty artist Arlene Holtz. During the pandemic, Holtz began exploring a warmer color palette with more reds, oranges and yellows.
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Twice delayed, ‘Ansel Adams in Our Time’ opens with still urgent themes
Updated May 11, 2021;
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The Portland Art Museum started promoting “Ansel Adams in Our Time” well over a year ago. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition had the makings of being a blockbuster. It would present the work of the most famous American landscape photographer, and the Portland Art Museum was going to be the show’s only West Coast venue. In Boston, more than 200,000 people came to see it during its 10-week run in early 2019. And then COVID-19 hit.
The museum moved the show’s opening date out twice, from fall 2020 to January 2021 and then to May to accommodate state mandated closures. As the museum reopens, this should be an easy win for it, in spite of ongoing restrictions that will limit the number of people allowed in the galleries. But this show was never simply a retrospective of Adams’ work or a greatest hits tour. Instead, it bolsters Adams’
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Adams photos on display
The Portland Art Museum has reopened and will present the exhibit, Ansel Adams in Our Time, to members starting Wednesday, April 28, and to the general public May 5.
The exhibit includes the famed photographer s work as well as others to put Adams photos in context.
The show contains 80 images by artists working both before and after Adams.
It was curated by Karen Haas of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She drew from her museum s Lane Collection of more than 6,000 American modernist photographs, works on paper and paintings, including 450 Adams photos collected by Saundra and William Lane.
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.