LVC to Host Lecture, "Ansel Adams in the 1930s"

ANNVILLE, PA (09/08/2010)(readMedia)-- Peter Barberie of Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a lecture, "Ansel Adams in the 1930s," on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 5 p.m. in the Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College. The lecture is free and open to the public. Ansel Adams: Early Works is on display at the gallery through Oct. 17, 2010.

Dr. Barberie is a specialist in 19th century photography and holds a Ph.D. in art history from Princeton University. He has been The Brodsky Curator of Photographs in the Alfred Stieglitz Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 2008. His recent publications include Looking at Atget (2005); Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery (co-authored with Katherine Ware, 2006); and "Charles Marville's Seriality," in More Than One: Photographs in Sequence (2008).

Barberie has also served in positions at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and Christie's Auction House in New York, and has been adjunct lecturer at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Ansel Easton Adams (1902–1984) transformed the art of photography through his technical innovations and unprecedented use of light and atmospheric effects and became one of the most prominent nature photographers of the twentieth century. Ansel Adams: Early Works includes 50 silver gelatin prints predominantly from the first half of his career. They show the Sierra Mountains, Grand Tetons, Mt. McKinley, Acadia National Park, Yosemite National Park, and other natural sites that Adams photographed time and again, and that are now preserved national landmarks.

Gallery hours are Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays from 1 to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and by appointment for groups. Schools and other organizations are encouraged to contact the Gallery for a guided visit.