Ansel Adams as Leader?

My wife and I were lucky enough to visit the Ansel Adams exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts today, as we both love art and photography. But it is also impossible to look past Adam's many and serious attempts to lead public opinion and thus appreciation of value of "the great outdoors".

Of course one can argue that his efforts were not exactly "traditional leadership" - yet I would prefer to believe that here was a man who was using his skills in any way possible to engage and encourage others. Doesn't that sound like leadership?

"No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied -it speaks in silence to the very core of your being." - Ansel Adams

From the MFA website ...

"Take a new look at the work of this great American landscape photographer through an outstanding selection of images from The Lane Collection. You're likely to see an Ansel Adams you've never seen before.

Because the exhibition is drawn from the largest private holding of his work in the world, rarely exhibited photographs from the 1920s through the '70s are hung side by side with the iconic images that made Adams famous. Footage of Adams mountain climbing, a large-format camera on display, and video of the photographer in the field and in the darkroom add to the complete picture of Adams as artist and outdoorsman."

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