An amazing photo exhibit is opening next month featuring rarely seen photographs taken by legendary photographer Ansel Adams while on assignment in L.A. for Fortune Magazine in 1940.
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L.A. Through the Lens of Ansel Adams, 1940: Rarely Seen Photos
Hug a Tree or Take a Hike! It's Sierra Club Day
The Sierra Club, one of the nation's most prominent conservation organizations, marks the anniversary of its founding today. The group was founded on May 28, 1892, with just 182 charter members. Their first president was none other than its founder, naturalist John Muir. The Sierra Club's first campaign was to lead an "effort to defeat a proposed reduction in the boundaries of Yosemite National Park."
Surprises Found In Ansel Adams Collection At L.A. Public Library
Turns out, when iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams wasn't off in the wilderness, he was hired for commercial jobs, like documenting Los Angeles' aviation industry for Fortune magazine and capturing street scenes of 1940s life. According to NPR, Adams donated the collection to the Los Angeles Public Library in the 1960s estimating the value at $100 stating, "The weather was bad over a rather long period and none of the pictures were very good." No current estimate has yet been given on the actual value the collection.
LACMA Receives Gift of 3,500 Photographs
LACMA's photography collection just got a major influx of new images. The collection, ammassed by Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, includes works by Ansel Adams, Julie Morgan Cameron, Imogen Cunningham, Gustav le Gray, Edward Steichen, W. H. Fox Talbot, and Edward Weston.
Museum Must See: Edward Weston at the Getty
Edward Weston. One of the most brilliant photographers of the 20th Century. Viewing the LACMA exhibit many years ago, I was enamored instantly. The buildings, the nudes, the everyday objects, and his link to Los Angeles stirred up emotions in me that I’ve never forgot.
THE COBRA SNAKE
He has a name, but we shouldn’t really utter it. The Cobrasnake will do. It might be two words. It might be one. We're being told it's Three. The "The" is deserved. To us it’s THECOBRASNAKE with those Spanish upside down exclamation marks in front of it.
Ansel Adams: urban photographer?
This is a newsstand in Burbank in the early 1940s, and the photo was taken by, of all people, Ansel Adams.
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