Ansel Adams woke before dawn for five days in order to capture the key moment of sunrise over the Sierra.
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Highlights of the Collection: Ansel Adams, Winter Sunrise
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Highlights of the Collection: Hurrell’s Marlene Dietrich
Hurrell, the master of the glamor shot, worked with Dietrich to create a portrait that incorporates contributions from both.
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The Landscape of Injustice: Ansel Adams and Manzanar
Ansel Adams extended his vision of American identity to the interned Japanese-Americans, arguing that they were born free and equal.
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Leonard Freed, Visitor to the Pompidou
Leonard Freed Visitor to the Pompidou Center looking at art installation, Paris, France, 1977 Gelatin silver print Scripps College, Gift of Sally Strauss and Andrew E. Tomback Though Freed predominantly focused on documenting urban life in New York, his photographic journeys occasionally took him into Europe. This image depicts an excursion to the Pompidou Center […]
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The Big Picture: Photographs and Archives of Aperture Cofounder Go to Scripps
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Ansel Adams Museum Set: Stunning Addition to the Scripps Collection
Between 1978 and his death in 1984, Ansel Adams created a special inventory of photographic prints of the pieces he considered to be his finest and most iconic. One of these sets has found a home at Scripps.
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Focus on Photographs: Building a Collection at Scripps
Focus on Photographs: Building Photograph Collections at Scripps features some of the finest photographs in the Scripps Collection.
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Lessons Learned in London
As Aleedra mentioned, today is officially the last day of the RCWG summer internships. However, I’ll be here for another week, because last week I had the amazing opportunity to travel to London.The purpose of my 9-day trip was a summer course at the Courtauld Institute of Art entitled “Artists’ Materials: Invention and Innovation.” The […]
Muybridge on NPR
Hey look! NPR has a piece on photographer Eadweard Muybridge- Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move Apparently, a retrospective of his works will be on exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and will then tour around the country.Check out the Williamson’s collection of Muybridge prints at the Claremont Colleges Digital […]
