Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/12/00 2:12 pm, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: > Ansel goes for the big effect. He's not into boring subtlety You WILL look at > his images for more than one second. There are a lot of his images I DON'T look at for more than one second, certainly not in reproduction. AA's technique was such however that when you see his images in the flesh there is a kind of hyper-reality about them that can completely transfix you. But that is fundamentally a technical effect. If you shoot something with an 8x10 camera and make a contact print you'll get the same effect. You could call it 'deep seeing', and it can radically transfrom the most mundane object. Edward Weston took amazing pix of peppers... Ansel Adams made a boring picture of a rose, and a scissor and some thread. To me, Weston's pictures were glorious and in many respects unsurpassed. Ansel's were... very very sharp. Okay, that's an unfair comparison. Perhaps we underestimate AA because he has been so vastly copied. To draw another comparison with other media, he reminds me of Tchaikovsky putting the cannons in the 1812 overture. They've very, very... loud. I'd rather listen to Schubert or Beethoven. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com