Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Patrick, Is that him or "us"? I have seen portraits of his that are wonderful. He worked at various times in all formats, in many media (colour, B&W, Polaroid etc.). For a while he earned a living shooting for others (if I remember correctly). "We" (society) choose to remember him for his Black and White landscapes (mostly large format). Those are the views we bought, those were probably the ones he was best at and cared the most about. If you are going to have "one aesthetic conception " you could do worse (IMHO) than the world around us (even if it is without people most of the time). Ken - ---------- > From: Patrick G. Sobalvarro <pgs@sobalvarro.org> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: Getting serious > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 6:06 PM > > At 08:21 AM 10/29/97 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote: > >It seems that Adam's work is not "PC". I'm not really sure why. > > I think Ansel Adams' work is often beautiful in a spare, abstract sort of > way, and one has to be impressed by his technique -- you can almost feel > the textures of the rocks in many of his prints -- but, damn! The man had > only one aesthetic conception in his whole life. > > -Patrick