Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV

["Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@harbornet.com>]

My wife was watching and after seeing him dodging and altering the negs,
and hearing the narrator say that the finished product was highly
manipulated and often much different than the original subject, which if
seen as taken might be quite plain and boring.

She then commented, "I am disappointed.  I don't think that's right --
after all, you keep telling me you wanted the Leica and that wonderful
lens so your photos would have that beautiful glow and be truly
representative of what you saw.  Explain this to me!"

Help!!!  ;-)

Ted in Olalla


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ginex, Mike" <mginex@panynj.gov>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:26 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV


> I was truly impressed and inspired by the AA show, but I too feel his
photos
> are somewhat clinical. I have always felt there was something
unnatural
> there. Maybe if I someday go to Yosemite, I'll change my opinion.
>
> M.G.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:51 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV
>
>
> If you'd seen 6 ft under you might not have thought so, Ernie...;-)
>
> I find myself in the somewhat unusual category of having great
admiration
> for AA as a photo technician and "inventor," and very little regard
for him
> as a
> "photographer." His development of the Zone System and his abilities
as a
> manipulator of light, in the field and in the darkroom, were great
technical
> achievements. That said, however, I find his photography sterile
incredibly
> predictable. I can't blame the Estate for the monsoon of posters,
etc. -
> AA's photos ARE posters. They're "beautiful," and if they inspire
people to
> want to protect the environment then they are truly valuable. But,
IMO, they
> lack ambiguity and any sense of imagination.
>
> But I stress this is my opinion - nothing more, nothing less - and it
is
> certainly a minority view.
>
> B. D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> enitka@twcny.rr.com
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:36 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV
>
>
> I like many others found the show to be awe inspiring- as much for the
> photography as for the celebration of
> one person's efforts to save the environment.  I have always been a
fan of
> AA.  What suprises me is the way he
> is sometimes disparaged in some photographic circles.  The negative
reaction
> that he generates is difficult to
> understand.  I think much of it may be not so much his photography or
him
> but the way his art has sometimes
> been foisted onto the general public as the "only real american
> photographer".  Mind you this is not my opinion
> but the effect of 1] being very very talented and 2] having an
agressive
> Trust organization to promote things
> after death.  I believe this maybe what some object to.  Much like
Frank
> Lloyd Wright - except in this case FLW
> was not a very nice person ( my take of him) but his architecture is
sooo
> wonderful.
>
> The show was worth missing 6 feet under - my wife was sent into the
other
> room to record all the plot lines in
> 6FU.
>
> ernie nitka
>
>
> 4/22/02 8:46:00 AM, SthRosner@aol.com wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 4/22/02 1:45:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >red735i@earthlink.net writes:
> >
> >> If you did not see the show, you missed the most inspirational 1 1
/2
> hours
> >>  on phtotgraphy.   Try to get a video from a friend.
> >
> >Yes, Frank, also a magnificent journey of the human spirit and an
accurate
> >description of one aspect of the American national psyche that most
people
> >miss. I spent four months during the summers of my 14th and 15th
years
> >working in the Rocky Mountain West and the feeling for the western
> wilderness
> >has never left me.
> >
> >My wife missed it and as PBS sells the video for $19.95, I'm getting
a copy
> >for her.
> >
> >Seth       LaK 9
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