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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Ansel Adams/John Wimberley WAS Mapplethorpe
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 23:25:14 +0100

Well - even a true master may not have 100% success rate. Not even HCB, not Wimberley (whoever he is) - you name it. But as you said: "Most people remember half a dozen of Ansel Adams' pictures" - and you cannot say that of many photographers.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Aihe: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams/John Wimberley WAS Mapplethorpe, highquailty porn


>on 3/12/00 4:04 pm, Dean Chance at mreyebal@pacbell.net wrote:
>

<snip>Most people
>remember half a dozen of Ansel Adams' pictures... clearing winter storm, the
>famous desert pic, black sun, moonrise over hernandez, the 1927 el capitan
>picture...and some of those are indeed great and (somewhat) moving images.
>BUT the great majority of his work simply does not get anywhere near these
>standards. He is a photographic wordsworth in many ways... a man who
>attempted to penetrate the sublime and occasionally did but who more often
>fell victim to his own prosaic limits, without ever really celebrating them.
<snip>