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Twice delayed, ‘Ansel Adams in Our Time’ opens with still urgent themes
Updated May 11, 2021;
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The Portland Art Museum started promoting “Ansel Adams in Our Time” well over a year ago. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition had the makings of being a blockbuster. It would present the work of the most famous American landscape photographer, and the Portland Art Museum was going to be the show’s only West Coast venue. In Boston, more than 200,000 people came to see it during its 10-week run in early 2019. And then COVID-19 hit.
The museum moved the show’s opening date out twice, from fall 2020 to January 2021 and then to May to accommodate state mandated closures. As the museum reopens, this should be an easy win for it, in spite of ongoing restrictions that will limit the number of people allowed in the galleries. But this show was never simply a retrospective of Adams’ work or a greatest hits tour. Instead, it bolsters Adams’
Portland exhibitions reveal complex legacy of landscape photography
Posted May 10, 2021
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Landscape photography has become the most ubiquitous art form of our time, thanks to smartphone technology and social media. Yet lost in the deluge of National Park selfies is an essential dilemma about our love of these natural places, and how we choose to represent them.
That dilemma is brought to light at two photography exhibitions in downtown Portland this spring, both of which challenge the legacy of Ansel Adams, the vanguard of modern landscape photography.
At the Portland Art Museum’s “Ansel Adams in Our Time” (May 5 to Aug.1) the legendary photographer is both celebrated and questioned, while modern photographer Johnnie Chatman makes a more pointed critique in his affecting show “i forgot where we were…” at Blue Sky Gallery (April 1 to May 29).