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...exhibit is an excellent opportunity for both photography connoisseurs and neophytes to introduce themselves to the wealth of the Harvard Museums' photography collections. The collection includes great works by Ansel Adams, Ben Shahn, Alfred Stieglitz and Man Ray. Curator Deborah M. Kao gives newcomers a lucid presentation of the broad strokes of photographic development...
...Yosemite one morning at 6:30, after a night of headlights, radios and tape decks, Barich counts incoming cars: four a minute. "Almost 3.5 million tourists visited Yosemite every year, and I saw what a job it must be just to keep the rest rooms clean." Where to now, Ansel Adams...
...need to play songs, over and over again, until we associate their lyrics with our rooms--the Ansel Adams poster above our dresser, the mess on our desk, the crooked light...
...pixels (picture elements), which is roughly equivalent to the visual information represented by the 20 million silver molecules in a standard 35-mm negative. But that is about one-fifth the resolution offered by high-quality Kodachrome slides, and it cannot compare with the glorious large-format pictures that Ansel Adams labored to create...
...which opens the show. The latter print becomes a compendium for the show as a whole. The photograph contains a little bit of everything--a stunning evening landscape of mountains and clouds, a few remnants of industrialization, numerous crosses. It skillfully summarizes a new and fuller view of Ansel Adams...