Texas APUGers can see 126 prints made by Ansel Adams at the University of Texas at Austin Ransom Center galleries Aug 9, 2005 through Jan 1, 2006. The only stop in the Lone Star state.

Free of charge and I think there will be some faculty lectures sometime during the five month showing. None posted yet, but check the hrc website (below) calendar of events in September.

www.hrc.utexas.edu/ News release section has best info. When you are at the gallery you can view the world's first photograph on permanent display in a special case.

gma

I finally had a chance to see the Ansel Adams Legacy exhibit today. All 126 photographs are enlargements of negatives made from the 1920's through 1981 and printed from the 1960's through 1981 and signed by Ansel Adams. Later in life he made prints with higher contrast than earlier prints from the same negatives. For example the famous moonrise over Hernandez NM was originally printed with clouds throughout the sky. Later he burned in the sky to eliminate any suggestion of clouds in the upper portion. I find this most interesting.

Your title sounds like an Elvis siting. I can see the headlines, "AA sited in convenience store".

There are plenty of Ansel Adams lookalikes in Austin.

gma

For those of you in or around Austin, this is a great exhibit but it ends this week. The good news is that school is not in session and the campus is pretty quiet.
Nathan