“Ansel Adams In Our Time” Podcast With Julia Dolan (PAM) and Karen Haas (MFA Boston) Connects Museums With Socially Distanced Fans Of Zone System Inventor

Editor’s Note: Without the pandemic and all that entails, a display of Ansel Adams’ work now would be available for viewing at the Portland Art Museum. So, Art Museum staff have had to pivot and find new ways to connect with the public. Here’s just one example-a podcast by Julia Dolan and Karen Haas. What follows is a portion of their announcement email.

"Coming soon to the Portland Art Museum is a special exhibition featuring the work of esteemed photographer Ansel Adams and the contemporary photographers he influenced. On this episode of Art Unbound, Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography, speaks with the exhibition’s originating curator, Karen Haas, MFA Boston’s Lane Senior Curator of Photographs.

Julia and Karen discuss their own personal histories of exhibiting Ansel Adams’ work, as well as William and Saundra Lane, the collectors who make exhibitions like these possible. 

Featured in this Episode:

Julia Dolan – The Minor White Curator of Photography, Portland Art Museum
Karen Haas – Lane Senior Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Mentioned in this episode:

• MFA Boston

• Boston University

• The Lane Collection

• Gardner Museum

• Addison Gallery

• Photographs & light sensitivity

• American Modernism

• Ansel Adams

• Alfred Stieglitz

• Howard Greenberg Collection

• Josef Sudek

• Yousuf Karsh

• William and Saundra Lane

• Metropolitan Theater Boston

• The Force of Destiny opera

• Georgia O’Keeffe

• Charles Sheeler

• Edward Weston

• Imogen Cunningham

• Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection

• Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras

• Polaroid

• Minor White

• 2005 Ansel Adams exhibition

• Rebecca Senf

• Nancy Newhall

• Exhibition Management in the Time of COVID-19

Produced by Jon Richardson
Music by Mark Orton

Detail from the podcast announcement on the NW Film Center web page.