Visualizing the Environment

Donnerstag, 06.02.2025
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AMERIKAHAUS, Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 München
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Visualizing the Environment

American Landscape Photography from Ansel Adams to Dawoud Bey

Vortrag von Steven Hoelscher is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts, Stiles Professor of American Studies and Geography, and Faculty Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas at Austin.

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American landscape photographer Ansel Adams (1902–1984) described his approach to picture-making as one of “visualization“ – the photographic expression of what the environment looks and feels like to the artist. “The first step towards visualization, and hence toward expressive interpretation,” Adams said, “is to become aware of the world around us in terms of the photographic image. We must teach our eyes to become more perceptive.” 

Adams’s description of his creative process serves as the point of departure for this presentation, which explores the many ways that photographers have visualized the American environment. It begins with Ansel Adams, whose photographs of pristine nature – all pictured in razor-sharp focus, with subtle gradations of light and dark, and deep recessions of space – remain some of the most immediately recognizable environmental images of our time. His photographs have inspired environmental consciousness for many, but they have also drawn criticism what he left out of his visualizations: the impact of humans on the natural environment.

Foto: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; © Ansel Adams (1942)

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