Ansel Adams exhibit at San Francisco's de Young Museum relevant in age of climate change

When famed photographer Ansel Adams captured many of his iconic images, western landscapes like Yosemite were both remote and still pristine.

"What I love about Bryan's work, is that he is looking very concerned with the fact that we as a culture seem so often to extract everything that is valuable, to take from the soil, to take from the earth -- all those things -- and then leave these places and the people who live in the them in a very much worse state than we found them," Haas said.

Assistant Curator Sarah Mackay says she grew up on the East Coast, where many of Ansel Adams images define the Western landscape in popular imagination. But she also notes the evolution in works like Lucas Foglia's Beach Restoration after El Nino waves. "So there are photographers like Lucas Foglia who really are involved with climate scientists, and whose, you know, main concern is the environment. And you see how the aesthetic kind of qualities of his images relate to atoms, but there's much more of an intensity about bringing a consciousness to the environment and the climate change," Mackay said.The exhibition is also an intimate look at Ansel Adams Bay Area roots.

A mix of classic and contemporary views, of landscape, the West, and ultimately the change facing our entire planet.Learn more about the exhibit

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