CORNING, NY.- The Rockwell Museum of Western Art is proud to announce Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius, which will be on exhibit through September 4, 2006. Adams is among the few photographers in history whose name and work enjoy worldwide recognition. His stunning landscapes and intimate still lifes of nature continue to captivate viewers.

While many come to know his work through widely published books, postcards, posters, and calendars, relatively few have actually seen his lushly printed original images. Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Adams's birth in 2002, the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, revisited its extensive collection of Adams's work, creating a new exhibition of 150 photographs that reflects Adams's full career.

Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius presents work from the 1920s through the 1960s, including an early 1927 portfolio (one of only fifty produced) of Parmelian prints (gelatin silver emulsion on parchment paper). This is the first time George Eastman House has included this portfolio from its collection in an exhibition. Featured are many of Adams's most famous images of the American West - Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, Mount Williamson from Manzanar, California, ca. 1944, and Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, 1927. But prepare to discover equally stupendous, (if less well-known) images such as Mud Hills, Arizona or Water and Foam, or the wonderful abstract titled simply, Stained Wallpaper Near Alturas, Calif. Many will be surprised to see that Adams did not confine himself to landscapes, but also made portraits and other subjects as humble as fence posts into images nearly as monumental as his beloved mountain ranges.