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...Books Stephen Spender's Journals mix big names and trivial pursuits. Ansel Adams' autobiography charts the progress of art and artist...
...Ansel Adams once defined a great photograph as "a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety." By that criterion, Mydans, 78, made a great photograph in one of his first assignments for LIFE. In the oil town of Freer, Texas, he turned his camera on the restless men loitering before a wood-frame lunchroom. Shooting from across the muddy street and above the roof line, his view takes in everything from a distant filigree of oil rigs to the ratty classicism of the restaurant porch. Harnessing the camera's broad indecisiveness, he reports both the sociology...
...think his lecture style is great, it’s kind of irreverent and fun...I think what he’s trying to say always comes across really easily,” says Ansel S. Witthaus...
InaCaliforniancoastalidyll known for harboring creative types like Ansel Adams, Jack London and onetime mayor Clint Eastwood, the latest public nuisance is also the city's very soul--art. With 120 art galleries in a town of 4,058 people, or one gallery for every 34 residents, the city council of Carmel-by-the-Sea voted last month to limit the number of new galleries moving into town. Carmel's leaders decided that the city, which earns no sales-tax revenue when out-of-state tourists snap up a watercolor, has reached aesthetic overkill...
...Ansel Adams had gone into interior design, he probably would have produced something like the Claverly basement, home to the Harvard Mountaineering Club. Their illustrious set-up contains not one, but two rock walls, as well as a bouldering room catering to ropes-free climbers who dare to scamper across the ceiling a la Spiderman (the floor is well-padded with mattresses for the novice rock climber). Harvard Mountaineering Club member Neal K. Gupta ’07 says walk-ins are “totally welcome.” Fellow member Lucas T. Laurensen ’06 notes...