RE: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Well, I guess maybe that proves that a rock is a rock is a rock....But he
sure knew how to expose film and manipulate those images in the darkroom!
;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mueller,
> Rob
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:00 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?
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>
> take the number of great AA images, divide by his years of
> photography, and
> wince at how few they really are.
>
> Rob Mueller
> Studies in Black and White
> www.studiesinblackandwhite.com
> rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@neteze.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:09 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us;
> leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?
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> At 10:00 AM 11/20/99 -0500, Summicron1@aol.com wrote:
> >but i agree -- who cares what camera he used/promoted. Hell,
> the man had to
> >make a living. He probably didn't care what brand of tool he
> used that
> much.
>
> He actually did care very much for his equipment. Not brands in large
> format as for the quality of it. Though he did speak highly
> of some older
> Zeiss large format lenses he wished were still in production
> once. He said
> he always used the finest lenses he could get his hands on.
>
> But you are right, he never went out with one sheet of film,
> and I suspect
> many of his mistakes were better than a lot of photographer's
> best efforts.
> His 35mm portrait of Alfred Stieglitz was one frame. But he
> had 35 others
> in case the moment lasted long enough to make more I'm sure.
>
> He is quoted as saying "A dozen good negatives in a year is a
> good year."
> Let that sink in.
>
> Gene Smith has a reputation for being a meticulous printer of anal
> retentive proportions, but his answer to that was a story he
> told about one
> time he had some 12 negatives to print for publication on
> deadline and he
> had something like 14 or 15 sheet of paper to do it. And he
> succeeded.
> That's a benefit of being a master of his craft.
>
> When I used to print basketball or football pictures on
> deadline (that is,
> about 15 minutes to print 2 or 3 pictures dodging, burning,
> bleaching - the
> whole ball of wax - I always kept that story in mind. Gosh, I
> miss those
> nights in the darkroom. It was fun to meet the challenge!
> (Amazing exercise
> of memory making old pains less painful I'm sure).
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
>
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship
- - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas,
"More Joy of Photography"