Ansel Adams exhibition - London's National Maritime Museum

This past week I had the great experience of viewing the work of Ansel Adams for the first time at London's National Maritime museum. From seeing Ansel Adams work throughout books over the years, this exhibition was something special in the experience of seeing Ansel Adams work as the real thing within a life size scale directly in front of you.  The work featured within this exhibition is a documentation timeline of over 100 of Ansel Adams prints that were hand produced by the man himself over the course of his long and celebrated career.

Within all of the prints on show at this exhibition, what stood out to me most were the incredible large scale works from Ansel Adams which documented America's Gravel Bars river. The sheer scale of the print itself did a fantastic job of making me feel as if I was standing in the spot that Ansel Adams was when he fired the shutter capturing this image. In the next week I will have a full review posted on my thoughts on the exhibition.  Until then, if your a fan of Ansel Adams work the head down to London's National Maritime Museum before the 28th April.

                                    Fig 1 - Ansel Adams: Gravel Bars, American River (1960)