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L.A.'s poster stores are bracing themselves. The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art will host an international exhibit of works by contemporary photographer Ansel Adams from Feb. 2 through May 11.

"Ansel Adams at 100," which was organized and began at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in August 2001, commemorates the 100th anniversary of Adams' birth and arrives in L.A. after stops in Chicago, London and Berlin, said Bo Smith, a LACMA spokesman.

The exhibit includes more than 100 photographs and prints, including the now famous "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome" and "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico."

LACMA will also include a complementary exhibit called "Landscape Photography After Ansel Adams: Selections from LACMA's Permanent Collection."

Tickets are $11 to $15, Smith said. He said he expects "Ansel Adams at 100," the first Ansel Adams exhibit at LACMA in 14 years, to attract large crowds from as far as Las Vegas and Phoenix.

"Everyone from aficionados to families, who see the calendar for sale every year or on their desk, will enjoy the show' Smith said.

Adams, a San Francisco native, began taking pictures at age 14 while visiting Yosemite National Park. In 1919, he joined the Sierra Club, where he eventually was director for 37 years. He published several books, taught at the Art Center School in L.A. in the 1940s and in 1975 co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, where his archive is established. In 1980, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter. Adams died in 1984.