December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyVisualizing the Environment: Ansel Adams and His Legacy by STEVEN HOELSCHER The first time I encountered the photography of Ansel Adams wasn’t in a museum gallery, but during a college course. I remember the moment well. The course, “Wilderness and the American Mind,” introduced me to that critical, contested concept through a wide range of memorable texts. In… read more
May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyConservation: The Clarkson Stanfield Album by ANDREA KNOWLTON Photographic albums are complex book structures with unique weaknesses and vulnerabilities. To make the Clarkson Stanfield Album, the photographs were adhered to individual leaves of paper, which were then hinged and nested together into sections that could be sewn together into a traditional book structure. Even with… read more
May 9, 2024, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyElegance and Ambition: Hill & Adamson’s Book of 100 Calotypes by JESSICA S. MCDONALD A superior volume of early photographs by the celebrated Scottish partnership of Hill & Adamson (active 1843–1847) is the subject of an unprecedented exhibition this spring. Formally titled 100 Calotypes by D. O. Hill, R.S.A., and R. Adamson, the volume is better known as the Clarkson… read more
