Some 125 images from the Lane Collection opened on Saturday, September 15, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Blake Gopnik provided a very favorable review in The Washington Post. And judging by the crowds that were there on Sunday, the audience liked it as well.
Adams was certainly a genius--in his own time and today. Adams was born in 1902 and tutored privately. He was actually preparing to be a concert pianist, but when he was 14 he took a hiking trip with his family and was hooked with his first camera. I wonder what he might have been had his nose not been broken in the San Francisco earthquake. Supposedly, he was sensitive about his looks and became somewhat of a longer, losing himself in exploring the beautiful Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The exhibit is beautifully hung and the public clearly was drawn to the various images.
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