Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams at 100
From: "Dr. Elliot Puritz" <drpuritz@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 23:05:26 -0500
References: <B84937FD.264C%abridge@mac.com>

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
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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
>
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