Photographs from the Polaroid Collections
Open at the Vero Beach Museum of Arts

The Vero Beach Museum of Art is showcasing Ansel Adams and Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention -- Photographs from the Polaroid Collection. This exceptional exhibition of photographs, memos and letters by the internationally celebrated master of the landscape genre is on display April 8 through June 12, 2005.

In 1948, Adams became a consultant to Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant photography system, for whom he rigorously tested new films and products. Throughout the ensuing 35 years, Adams took hundreds of instant photographs and wrote thousands of letters and memoranda to report his findings and recommendations to Polaroid. The photographs that are presented in this exhibition, many of which have never before been shown, are culled from this extensive body of work housed at the Polaroid Collections and Archives in Massachusetts.

This Ansel Adams exhibition features more than 80 prints, including vintage enlargements of Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 and Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1960, as well as murals. Also featured are the pristine, one-of-a-kind, Polaroid black-and-white prints, rare color photographs and an example of Adams' commercial work.