Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman wrote: > > 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 It's very cool you are getting into large format and it's true you can shoot dogshit and make a contact print of it; a little Selenium and name your price: high art; or contact it with Platinum and they'll give you stock options. Cigarette butts would do well for me for subject matter: Irving. Personally I thought Ansels version of the sizzlers and egg slicer was a nice as Ed's. And part of it is what you think is Pornography. Nixon said it was something that showed pubic hair. So any guy with a mustache is doing porn having his drivers license takin. My person definition of pornography is very simple: Pornography is erotic art done poorly. Anyone got a better one? mark rabiner :) http://spokenword.to/rabiner/ http://people.oven.com/jbm/temp-displays/Mark_Rabiner/Marks_Zone_System.pdf