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San Francisco showcase brings together the photographer’s works alongside contemporary artists who build on itFrom towering granite monoliths to textured tree trunks, Ansel Adams’ renowned black and white photographs have offered generations the chance to see the beauty and importance of nature through his eyes.Now a new exhibit at San Francisco’s de Young fine arts museum gives viewers a new way to connect to the artist himself. Ansel Adams in Our Time, on display from 8 April through 23 July, brings together more than a 100 of Adams’ works alongside 23 contemporary photographers who reflect and build on it. The exhibition also returns Adams to the city where he launched his career and continues the conversations he began about conservation and national parks in his first exhibition at San Francisco’s de Young museum nearly a century ago.The exhibition will include some of Adams’ most famous works, including a photograph of Half Dome under the moon and a beloved self portrait featuring the artist’s shadow – complete with his arm extended to the sky, light meter in hand – against a rock face in Monument Valley. Continue reading...