Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I saw the exhibit Friday afternoon after 1 hour of standing in the rain to get in! After viewing the exhibit, then going through the other floors, I returned during thelast 15 minutes and was able to see again without the crowds. Don't miss the world's largest gray card on the 2d floor -- 4' x 8' solid grey painting. (Actually, it looked a little darker than 18%.) I could've whipped several out in an hour with a Power Painter and a gallon of Latex, if I had thought it would be a museum piece! Reminds me of the all white painting that was there when the Carleton Watkins exhibit was showing -- not even brush strokes -- it was intended to show the absence of artistic input! Tom Schofield >From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: "leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Ansel Adams at 100 >Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:03:25 -0800 > >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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html