In anticipation of the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) reopening in early 2009, it presents The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the Museum of Art (UMMA) Collection through Jan. 3. The exhibit will include some of the most compelling landscape images from the museum's collection.

Since the dawn of photography, practitioners have used the medium as a tool to make sense of our surroundings and create meaning within the larger world.

From a selection of classic views by such artists as Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, and William Henry Fox Talbot to the contemporary sublime of Michael Kenna, these images reflect 19th- and 20th-century European and American artists responding to the natural environment.

Among the other photographers included are Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, William Jackson, Andre Kertesz, Josef Sudek and Minor White. The exhibition also will showcase new acquisitions on view for the first time by Edward Curtis, Peter Henry Emerson, Karl Struss and Edward Steichen.

Exhibit times are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday.

The free exhibit is at UMMA Off/Site on South University at Forest. It is made possible in part by Ernestine and Herbert Ruben and the U-M Credit Union.

For more information call 763-UMMA or go to www.umma.umich.edu.