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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Edition, DIFFERENT, COVER with the genre: Arts & Photography, Photography & Video?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Ansel Adams'
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conversations.value: Give me the first two paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence ' This one family has proven vital in establishing northern California as an area of enlightenment, bringing the creative works of man to all citizens.'.
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conversations.value: Ansel Adams
  Albert was a true philanthropist. He never requested money from his friends for any purpose unless he had first contributed. When he had concluded the arrangements for the portfolio, he said to me, "Of course, I'll take ten copies. Here is my check for five hundred dollars." He later bought ten more. He was back on the phone and, before lunchtime, with a magnificent job of promotion, he had sold more than half the portfolios, assuring the project's financial success.
  His first call was to Mrs. Sigmund Stern, who was kindly, wealthy, and always supportive of the arts. "Top o' the morning to you, Rosalie! I have a young friend here who has done some fine photographs. We are going to make some portfolios and I have taken ten." She said she would take ten, too, and asked Albert to bring me to dinner. The same approach was used for several other benefactors of the arts, with considerable success. San Francisco has had a great tradition of support for its arts and artists, with Mrs. Stern one of the brightest lights. That tradition has continued with her remarkable daughter, Elise, and her husband, Walter Haas, and through them to their children. The Sterns, Haases, and Goldmans feel that great responsibility accompanies wealth. This one family has proven vital in establishing northern California as an area of enlightenment, bringing the creative works of man to all citizens.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: O'Keeffe loved campfires and would stand close to them in her voluminous black cape, her remarkable features and her dark hair gleaming in the flickering light. She never seemed bored or tired and enjoyed every moment of the trip. The tree and rock shapes entranced her, especially the bright smooth polish on the granite of the high elevations. She would often say, "I must come back here some day; I may find something to paint. I guess it's too far, but maybe not!"
  There were many unforgettable experiences during that trip: the glacial lakes in the upper valley, well above treeline, with the looming shapes of Rodgers Peak and the south cliffs of Mount Lyell, the ascent to Isberg Pass from where the grand view of the Ritter Range towered to the east and the southern Sierra stretched for two hundred miles under the bright, clear sky.
  We reluctantly broke camp and descended to Washburn Lake which rests two thousand feet deep in a bowl of granite. The forests at this elevation of about seventy-five hundred feet were of lodgepole pine, fir, and aspen, lush in comparison with the stark growth of the higher altitudes. We then pressed on, down past Nevada and Vernal Falls to the civilization of Yosemite Valley with hot showers and well-prepared food. Virginia is a superb cook, and we quickly regained what weight the trip had cost us. Dave and the others stayed at the Ahwahnee and I was happy to be home in our own small but comfortable house behind Best's Studio. After a day or so we drove to San Francisco and had a final fling at the Fairmont Hotel before the group returned to the East and I back to Yosemite.
  As the friendship between Dave and me grew, so did his interest in photography; as his acquaintance with the Newhalls also blossomed, Dave became a committed soldier in the fight for the recognition of photography as a fine art.
  Besides our years of work together at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Dave and Sally enjoyed a warm correspondence with Virginia and me and, whenever possible, we would get together. In 1972 I began receiving letters from Dave insisting that I make my photographs available for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I had yet to have a major solo show in a New York City museum (Stieglitz's An American Place had been a private gallery), and Dave was convinced that the time had come. He was a trustee of the Metropolitan, and I was soon invited to have a show of one hundred and fifty prints in the spring of 1974.
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conversations.value: Minor White. Excerpt from "Memorable Fancies" 9 [10] July 1946. Courtesy the Minor White Archive, Princeton University. Copyright © 1985 by The Trustees of Princeton University.