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Huntington Ave.
Museum of Fine Arts, 45 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-267-9300. (Get directions).
For the urban traveler, Boston seems organized into cultural villages - the Theatre District, Newbury Street, and Fort Point Channel. One more village, on Huntington Avenue, stretches from Symphony Hall to the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art.
Just a week after the Bradford Washburn exhibition opens at BU, "View from Above: The Photographs of Bradford Washburn" opens at the MFA (Nov. 24-Apr. 30). Explorer climber and scientist Washburn donated 80 black and white images to the MFA. "View from Above" - peaks, glaciers, canyons - is the first major exhibition of Washburn's work in an art museum.
In recent years, the MFA has staged glamorous photography shows by celebrity portraitists Herb Ritts and Yousef Karsh. In March, the work of the great American photographer Edward Weston goes on view - less glamorous, more beautiful, and engrossing. "Edward Weston: Photographs and Modernism" presents 140 vintage prints by Weston - still lifes of seashells, portraits, abstract close-ups of nudes, rocks, trees - and 60 works by artists of his era, including Willem de Kooning, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Diego Rivera.
Mass. College of Art, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-232-1555. (Get directions).
Continue down Huntington until you reach the criss-crossed assemblage of new and old buildings that is the Mass. College of Art, an institution historically strong on photography, with courses for degree and non-degree students. In January, a multimedia exhibition, "Rapture," features new work by photo teacher Barbara Bosworth: large-scale images of water and clouds.
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