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| | American Experience | Ansel Adams | Transcript |
 | | Ansel's landscapes -- more surely more than any of the great 19th century photographers who worked over much of the same territory, are much less about sculpture, they're less about geology, they're less about permanence, they're less about the solidity of the rocks, than about the ephemeral nature of the rocks. |
 | | And Ansel's life occupied almost exactly a century in which Americans debated that question, and, at the end of the century, came to Ansel's answer -- which was that, while the frontier as a statistically measured artifact of the Census Bureau, might have ended, wildness did not end with the frontier. |
 | | And Ansel, in his own wild way, I think, was one of the crucial voices or, I suppose, images in Ansel's case, in saying to the American people, "We had this opportunity." If you look at Ansel's pictures from the 1920s and the 1930s, you wouldn't know that the frontier had closed. |
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