Sandman
Aug 01, 2007, 07:35 AM
RECENTLY, people have been falling off the backside approach to Half Dome with alarming frequency. A news photograph of a typical day on the exposed granite slope showed a mass of amateur hikers clutching the cable hand-holds in numbers seen only at Harry Potter book-release parties. Ever since the first nonnative Americans arrived in Yosemite Valley in the 1850s, its vistas have evoked feelings of awe--not to mention inspired legions of campers and gawkers. Clearly, judging from the traffic jams on Half Dome, we have loved Yosemite well but perhaps not wisely.
Yosemite's wonders stormed the public's consciousness in the form of grandiose landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Hill, as well as in portable and easily dispersed photographs. A new show at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, "Yosemite's Structure and Textures," displays the works of three 19th-century photographers and the most familiar of all Yosemite chroniclers: Ansel Adams.
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Cantor Arts Center, Gift from the Alinder Collection, 1991.213 Sierra high : 'The Domes, from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park,' an albumen print, 1865-66, by Carleton E. Watkins. via Metroactive (http://topix.net/r/07lUe3DDGoDdEToce6O4L2X5weIgEd5E1BpLeRIhBphjVrXy3= 2BUkLCgDtMzjzZfGltJc1WsyOZV6zjQyFDK876Wt8UdFA9Zp=2 BTKbfAVqaZjM0PNIv=2BrIkk7IikMEv=2BDfc)
Yosemite's wonders stormed the public's consciousness in the form of grandiose landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Hill, as well as in portable and easily dispersed photographs. A new show at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, "Yosemite's Structure and Textures," displays the works of three 19th-century photographers and the most familiar of all Yosemite chroniclers: Ansel Adams.
more... (http://topix.net/r/07lUe3DDGoDdEToce6O4L2X5weIgEd5E1BpLeRIhBphjVrXy3= 2BUkLCgDtMzjzZfGltJc1WsyOZV6zjQyFDK876Wt8UdFA9Zp=2 BTKbfAVqaZjM0PNIv=2BrIkk7IikMEv=2BDfc)
Cantor Arts Center, Gift from the Alinder Collection, 1991.213 Sierra high : 'The Domes, from the Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park,' an albumen print, 1865-66, by Carleton E. Watkins. via Metroactive (http://topix.net/r/07lUe3DDGoDdEToce6O4L2X5weIgEd5E1BpLeRIhBphjVrXy3= 2BUkLCgDtMzjzZfGltJc1WsyOZV6zjQyFDK876Wt8UdFA9Zp=2 BTKbfAVqaZjM0PNIv=2BrIkk7IikMEv=2BDfc)