Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got this from The Autobiography of Ansel Adams. I see here its date is 1985. And he died in 1984. This gave him time to spend the next year writing his Autobiography. On 3/23/15 9:50 AM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > As I recall Ansel's posters were being laser printed while he was still alive, > and that was the basis for his prediction. Ken On 3/22/2015 9:36 PM, Mark > Rabiner wrote: > AA specifically mentioned "laser beams". > He thought a > printing process would come about with laser beams. And they'd > use that to > make better prints of his neg than he did with his darkroom. > They'd look at > AA's darkroom prints as a reference of course. > > I think the point is if > you are smart you know you have no idea what's going > to happen and there is > an option to consider your negs a living thing to be > further explored. > I > have mixed feelings about if your "work " is you negs or your prints. > I'm > feeling know they are very much both. > > > On 3/22/15 8:44 PM, "Ken Carney" > <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> Not really tongue in cheek. AA left all of his > negatives with the >> thought that future generations might be able to print > them better with >> new technology (as opposed to Brett Weston who destroyed > most all of >> his). Gene Smith might have thought that Dr. Schweitzer needed > a few >> more natives behind him, I don't know... >> >> Ken >> >> On 3/22/2015 > 6:34 PM, Richard Man wrote: >>> I presume you might be speaking tongue in > cheek, but St. Adam and Gene >>> Smith would have loved photoshop. They would > do it as much as possible >>> without post processing, but to say they > wouldn't use the best available >>> tools would be silly. >>> On Mar 22, 2015 > 3:44 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Can you imagine Ansel > with Photoshop, or Gene Smith? Well, crap, that >>>> darkroom fire burned the > top part of my Half Dome neg but I can fix it in >>>> post... >>>> >>>> > Ken >>>> >>>> On 3/22/2015 3:59 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: >>>> >>>>> Larry, > that?s a bigoted and historically unsupportable view. Photographers >>>>> have > combined images to make totally conceptual scenes since the 19th >>>>> > century, most famously by Jerry Uelsmann starting in the 1960s and >>>>> > continuing to the present day. Ansel Adams famously stated that the >>>>> > negative was like a musical score, a starting point that the artist uses >>>>> > to produce the final performance (the print). >>>>> >>>>> Art and photography > are most certainly NOT two different media. >>>>> Photography is an art media, > one of many, including painting, sculpture, >>>>> ceramics, drawing, and > graphic printmaking (eg. Etching, lithography). >>>>> There is a lot of > overlap, these are not absolutely separate art forms. >>>>> The painter, > sculptor and printmaker incorporate drawing into their work. >>>>> The > printmaker can transfer photos to the etching plate. Photographers can >>>>> > paint and draw on the photo, or manipulate it on the computer, and >>>>> > computer graphics can be purely drawing without using photos. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > _______________________________________________ Leica > Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/