The State - News from June 15, 1986

The Friends of Photography, the world’s largest organization devoted to photography as a fine art, is moving from its founding base in Carmel to San Francisco and will establish the Ansel Adams Center in the city as an exhibition, teaching and publishing facility. Adams, who died at age 82 in 1984, was the principal founder of the Friends of Photography 19 years ago and provided funding for it in his will, the organization’s executive director, James Alinder, said. The center, which has 17,000 members worldwide, had been outgrowing its leased space in Carmel, and Adams had long envisioned a permanent facility for it, Alinder said. The Ansel Adams Center will occupy Pier 1 at Ft. Mason, which lies within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area on San Francisco’s northern waterfront between Fisherman’s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge.