Word: ansel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maiden exhibition, this week, the Modern Museum's new photography department dusted off 60 pictures representing the heavy cream of camera craft, from early sepia-colored 19th-Century primitives down to such contemporary camerartists as Alfred Stieglitz. Ansel Adams, Edward Weston. Picked to show the tremendous variety of methods and subjects used by cameramen of the past 97 years, the exhibition contained prints from hoary calotype* and wet-plate negatives, documentaries by the Civil War's camerace Matthew Brady, sentimental Victorian landscapes, modern news photographs, dadaist shadowgraphs by Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy and U. S. Modernist...