The Portland Art Museum has reopened, and soon it will present an exhibit by one of the foremost American landscape photographers.
"Ansel Adams in Our Time," available to view by members April 28 and the public May 5, puts the photographer's work in context, showing what came before and what's going on now in relation the master's monolithic brand.
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