The Hayward exhibition was the "Ansel Adams at 100" exhibition that toured the world so was indeed the full monty with images from his very beginnings and several versions of some of the more well-known ones showing how his printing changed over the years. As such I have my doubts about "
the most comprehensive overview of Adam's career ever exhibited in the UK" but you have to allow them something for promotional hyperbole
... However, it sounds from the blurb that the Edinburgh show is very similar, although the "100" show was curated by John Szarkowski.
My peeve about the Hayward was that the light level was so low they should have issued IR goggles. You could understand this with the older images, but even the newer ones, which were presumably well fixed, washed and selenium toned, were displayed in a murk more usually associated with pulling a sack over your head in a coal mine at midnight... during the new moon...
I am staying on in Northumberland for the week after the meet-up there so if I get the chance (or it rains too heavily to photograph...) I'll certainly strike north in the hope that the lighting is better this time! Thanks for the heads-up.
As for the magazine, I can live with the current level of digital content up to a point, treating it as the inevitable erosion of the basis of the magazine in the pursuit (doomed, I would suggest) of a more general readership. I've already aired my opinions of the use of "advertising features" and I see that nothing has changed there so I will no longer be buying it. If I wanted to be conned and have my intelligence insulted I'd help one of those bankers, ex-army officers and solicitors so anxious for my help with moving large sums of money out of Nigeria...
Cheers, Bob.
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