Ansel Adams: Classic Images features 75 images chosen by Adams as the finest examples of the quality and range of his photographic achievements.
Created during the later years of his life, the prints in the exhibition show, what the artist referred to as, ''maximum impact''. They are stronger in contrast, much larger, and more technically perfected to bring about a brilliance that resonates tonally. The exhibition comes to Orange County for the first time on Feb. 18, 2007 as part of the grand opening of the new Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing of the Bowers Museum.