Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll turn that on its head and say that I don't care much about Ansel's technique with camera or darkroom but everything about the content. Isn't that the point? Hand on heart, anyone who has been to Yosemite in dramatic weather and was not moved? I have some of Ted's work and am very pleased to count him as a friend too. Very different genre, both masters of their craft. Ted is the only photographer I know with the chops to be able to take a dig at Ansel (as part of discussing other photographic content) and emerge undiminished for me. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 6 January 2011 07:32, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote: > 2011-01-05-12:07:06 tedgrant at shaw.ca: > > AA's are merely big piles of rocks and ferns as sterile as a neutered > Monk! > > You go, Ted! Every now and then someone needs to take a poke at the Cult > of Ansel. > > And not a moment too soon, given some of the disbelieving responses you've > gotten... > > I have immense respect for Adams as a photographic technician and > craftsman, and for the way he synthesized aspects of photographic > practice into a coherent whole, and communicated that. But the photos > rarely move me. > > And yes, I have seen genuwyine Adams prints. They had a certain > presence as objects, but still didn't really make me fall in love with > the images. The ones I saw were really (perhaps hyper-) dramatic, > with black black blacks and white whites, pretty dark in overall tone > (someone told me this was the mark of a particular phase in Adams's > printing life), and seemed if anything a little over-the-top. > > And I also agree that there are others (even here on the LUG) who make > lamdscapes come more alive (to me). Mr. Adler is indeed an example - > there seems to be an attention to light and the way human feelings and > an image interact, and an almost lit-from-within feeling in some of > his photos. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >