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i mean, a lot of the appeal is the fact that they were done by ansel adams. they're really just straight documentary shots around the city, but there is a quality that ansel brings to his work. i think it's interesting because it's so much out of what people expect. it's not the ansel adams of the sierra nevada and so the interest to me is here's this dimension to ansel that people don't know about. it's definitely not his greatest work. they're not the kind of photographs that are gonna wind up in any museum, but they're incredible documentary records of our city. >> but looking at some of these photographs i mean, here's one right here of city hall which is iconic in itself, the los angeles city hall. then we've got pictures of the biltmore hotel, we've got the brown derby. so, he did do some landscapes. he probably couldn't help himself, could he? >> well, ansel loved the wide shot. and he recognized los angeles' setting, you know? he wanted to have some photographs of the wide open basins and the mountains and the icons of the city. and it's actually inter

these photographs are bigger than life and were taken by ansel adams,