Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 4, 2005 6:25 PM, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > One thing is certain though, Ansel was an original. Sure, some of his > writing was a bit pedantic but he was an original. Artist, > environmentalist, > and humanitarian. > Walt Is that really a defense of him as an artist? I wouldn't disagree that he was an important environmentalist, humanitarian and maybe even a great person, but none of that makes me care more for another impeccably printed mountain. I dislike Adams not because of his imitators but because the work itself never says much to me. (Maybe if I were more outdoorsy, I'd 'get' it.) As far as I'm concerned, a mountain is a mountain and a tree is a tree, and a photo of either had better have something to say. There's a portfolio online of color photographs taken by Adams in one of our Japanese concentration camps that I prefer to all of his landscapes. They're the work of someone engaged with humanity and the world around him and I'll take that over nature's majesty any day. -- MP wooderson@gmail.com