President Gerald Ford
as well as landscapes of striking beauty
this project was a deliberate attempt to peel back the curtain on the "Ansel Adams Brand" and reveal the experimental
and growing permanent collection of MoMA’s Department of Photography since its formal founding in 1940
which had become a prominent hub for avant-garde photography within the Soviet Bloc
Aperture, Volume 8, Number 4, 1960. Minor White, Walker Evans, Photo-Secession, et al. Aperture Magazine President Gerald FordFront and rear cover photos by Paul Caponigro. Editorial by Minor White. Portfolios by Gerry Sharpe, including photo of Ansel Adams and nine others; article by Minor White, "With Nothing Between You"; "Concerning Significant Books" re Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, article by Henry Holmes Smith, and Photo Secession by Robert Doty, article by Minor White, illustration by Baron De Meyer; reviews of "Under the Sun"