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"The walk to Ansel Adams' house would take me five minutes," photographer Al Weber chuckles. "A lot of times in the late afternoon, I'd get a call, it'd be Virginia [Adams] saying, 'It's almost 5 o'clock. Ansel'll be out of the darkroom in a while and nobody's here to have a drink with him.'
"[Edward Weston]'s son, [Cole Weston], was the first director of the Sunset Center in Carmel," Garrod recalls. "The whole thing began as informally as Cole saying to Ansel, 'Why don't you and your pals open up a gallery? I have this room in the Center.'""The Center got away from its community base where local artists had a chance to show their work," says Kim Weston, son of [Brett Weston], grandson of Ansel, nephew of Cole. "I'm not talking about a funky hometown thing, but a balance. But Dennis loved going to L.A., rubbing shoulders with celebrities, showing works of David Lynch, Graham Nash, Dennis Hopper. There's nothing wrong with that being part of the mix, but it became his direction. These shows did nothing for the Center, they were just a Friday night party. Where's the Graham Nash collection? Did David Lynch give anything to the Center? Now Dennis was driving a Porsche, hanging out with Dennis Hopper... He stacked the board with people he could bend."See the full content of this document
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It was a rich old time by all accounts, when genius walked afoot on the Big Sur Coast, when the dining tables of Carmel Highlands homes were pounded during passionate speeches by talented inebriates of high understanding, and the crowned heads of the international art community stopped by to talk technique with a man they acknowledged as a master.
"The walk to Ansel Adams' house would take me five minutes," photographer Al Weber chuckles. "A lot of times in the late afternoon, I'd get a call, it'd be Virginia [Adams] saying, 'It's almost 5 o'clock. Ansel'll be out of the darkroom in a while and nobody's here to have a drink with him.'"It was a nice way to end the day," Weber adds. "Just as likely when I went down there I'd find somebody like Dr. [Edward] Land from Polaroid, or [Yousuf] Karsch from Ottawa, Georgia O'Keefe...jawdropping people. Ansel was constantly surrounded by a very high echelon."Ansel Adams had come to the Monterey Peninsula to join the boldly innovative Edward Wes...See the full content of this document
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