[Leica] Re: AA Trivia Question

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

Having been born in Santa Cruz, grew up there, started photography there,
currently live but 30 miles from there, my mom still lives there in the
house where I grew up... I spent a lot of time at the Tannery, getting
leather scraps for hobby projects, Boy Scout stuff, etc. Smelly place.

I also knew Ansel Adams. While photographing along the CA coast, I would
occasionally run into him. Big camera and an International Travelall if I
remember correctly. I wasn't into that kind of car stuff then.

Even though I know he had 35mm cameras such as the Conterex, the only 35mm
camera I ever saw in AA's hands was an R4, sometime in the early 80's.

Jim


At 11:49 PM 11/17/99 -0700, Randy Holst wrote:
>Hello Luggers,
>
>Since there seems to be so many photo-knowledgeable people on this list,
>I'd like to put a question to those in the know.
>
>I have several 8x10 B&W photos of my great uncle, who died in 1958 when
>I was just a kid.  Each print is stamped on the back: "Photograph by
>Ansel Adams", an address in San Francisco and a reference to the
>negative number, but no date.  These photos appear to have been part of
>a commercial shoot AA did at the A. K. Salz Tannery in Santa Cruz, CA
>back in the early 50's.  (My great uncle was the superintendent at the
>tannery.)  I've found one photo, not matching the prints I have,  which
>appears to be from this shoot published in AA's "The Negative" on page
>157. (The name of the tannery was spelled wrong.)
>
>
>Randy Holst