Adams Trip To Stieglitz

Upon Adams’ first solo museum exhibition at the Smithsonian in 1931 the Washington Post wrote, “His photographs are like portraits of the giant peaks, which seem to be inhabited by mythical gods (alinder 67).” Stieglitz praised Adams's photographs, encouraged him to continue to refine his vision and technique, and strengthened the younger man's belief that photography should be pursued as one of the fine arts and as a means of expressing one's emotional response to life.(pacific 24) On his way to Washington in 1933 he stopped in New York City and visited Stieglitz who offered him a show. Stieglitz, a renowned cermuddgen and in an even more fowl mood over recent events with Georgia O’Keefe proclaimed Adams work among the finest he had seen (alinder 94) Though he did not offer him a show at this time but Adams left with a new found mentor and model for his carrer. On a return trip in 1936 Steiglitz did. A show at Stieglitz’s gallery was to his mind the height of photographic achievement and the greatest moment of his career 133 Sold two freestanding photographic scenes to ickes 134 This same trip Zeiss camera company offered Adams his first important freebie(alinder 98). Ickes, who placed the screen in his Interior Department office. The screens, which sold for three hundred dollars each-a very high price for the time-featured a mural-sized print, mounted on three hinged

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