Ric Burns - Ansel Adams

A rousing audience was treated Thursday evening to a showing of the documentary film on Ansel Adams made by Ric Burns to commemorate the 100th anniversary (in 2002) of Ansel Adams. The screening was shown in conjunction with the Corcoran's recent opening of an exhibit showing 125 pictures from the Lane Collection.

Burns (younger brother of Ken Burns) is a documentary film maker in his own right. Born in Baltimore, Ric (aka Eric) studied English at Columbia and Cambridge. He told us he worked for more than a dozen years on his PhD, but I suspect never finished his dissertation. He said he learned everything he knew about documentary film making from his brother.

Burns has been interested in making films about artists. I have not seen either the one on Andy Warhol or Eugene O'Neill, but look forward to them. I also hope to see Ken Burns new documentary to be shown this Sunday night on PBS on World War 2.