Event

Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and Clark KerrPost an Event »

pick

The Bancroft Gallery, UC Berkeley

September 27 - February 24, 2013

Info

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Berkeley

Google Map »

Caption: Environmental design model of Mission District, UC Berkeley, c. 1966. Photo by Ansel Adams.

“Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and Clark Kerr” features 50 original photographs selected from 605 signed Ansel Adams prints in Bancroft’s collection. The images -- commissioned by former UC President Clark Kerr and published in the 1967 book Fiat Lux, which celebrated the educational system’s centennial – offer a rarely seen look at the evolution of the renowned University of California system through the eye of a master photographer best known for his iconic California landscapes. The exhibition, organized by Catherine Cole, also showcases related archival materials about the controversial Kerr himself, and the development of his ideas and ideals. Also on view at the show will be “Take Five,” a series of short films by Cole and filmmaker Kwame Braun based on interviews with UC faculty, staff, alumni, students, and neighbors. Interviewees – including author Michael Pollan, artist Anne Walsh and cultural commentator Leigh Raiford – were each asked to select and discuss a quintet of images from the collection that speak to them personally.

Caption: Genetics Field Trip with Professor G. Ledyard Stebbins, UC Davis, c. 1966. Photo by Ansel Adams.

caption: Dr. Wheat and students in the large animal clinic, UC Davis, 1966. Photo by Ansel Adams.

Caption: Sculpture class, UC Santa Barbara, 1966. Photo by Ansel Adams.