"A Gigantic Glittering Dome of Stars": Ansel Adams and the Value of Wilderness

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"A Gigantic Glittering Dome of Stars": Ansel Adams and the Value of Wilderness

Thursday, August 20, 2020 @ 5:30 pm

Ansel Adams arrived in Yosemite as a fourteen-year-old tourist in a wilderness wonderland; over the next ten years of exploration he cemented a meaningful and lifelong connection to the natural world that informed both his environmentalism and his photography. Rebecca Senf, author of the recent Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, will talk about the photographer's experiences and how they can be seen in his artwork. Moderated by Katherine A. Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography.

Free registration for "A Gigantic Glittering Dome of Stars via Zoom here.  (When prompted, click to sign in as “attendee”)

This event will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar, by clicking the "CC" icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.

Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar" español "o el idioma de su elección.

LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.

Spanish-language live closed-captioning for this program is made possible by the Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council.

Ansel Adams, American, 1902–1984. Leaves, Owen's Valley, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Princeton University Art Museum, Gift of David H. McAlpin, Class of 1920.