Jim Jones
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A major exhibit of Ansel Adams in Peoria, IL, a few years ago, had vintage prints by Adams, and both analog and digital prints provided by the Ansel Adams gallery and the Adams family. I compared 26 of these prints with the reproductions in Ansel Adams: Classic Images published by Little Brown and Company. As Adams stated elsewhere, the reproductions came close to the originals in image quality. A few of the exhibit prints were too large to maintain good quality. The gallery experience had the advantage of including other items such as his Deardorff with an Ektar 10" W.A. other personal items, and prints that he had done himself, all together in a museum environment. However, much that could be learned from the prints could also be learned from the book and other books by the same publisher. Fine images posted online are certainly a different matter.