Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam: Is the Ansel Adams exhibit going to "travel" about the country? Would be a shame if many of us would not be able to see the images. Elliot - ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:03 PM Subject: [Leica] Ansel Adams at 100 > I'm just back from the Ansel Adams exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of > Modern Art. > > What an experience! So much of his work - many images I have never seen. > > It was wonderful to watch his development in printing. I often found myself > wondering what the negative looked like - what choices he made to produce > the print he ultimately created. None of these issues were addressed in the > narrative. In fact there was a veiled criticism of his re-printing negatives > 40 years after the fact. In all cases I found his later prints to be much > more to my liking than the prints which dated from the '40s. The narrative > referred to his late-life prints as being "melodramatic." I guess I saw a > man who was out to capture every nuance of the negative and worked until he > was able to express what he desired. > > Anyway - it's a wonderful exhibition. It took me about an hour and a half to > walk through the first time. I went down and shared an ice-tea with my wife > and then we went back and looked at images we particular admired. > > If you get a chance to go by all means enjoy this exhibition. > > One word: with perhaps two exceptions it is entirely his landscapes and > nature photography. No portraits. No architecture (except one photo in New > York City). I feel this is a serious omission but given the demands of > space, hey, I can respect the curator's decisions. (mighty nice of me, eh?) > > This was a wonderful Christmas present. > > Adam Bridge > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html