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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:38:03 -0400

Go Raimo! People are a huge irrelevant bore...Shoot those rocks! ;-)

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Raimo
Korhonen
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:11 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Vs: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV


Well -  I do find most of the so called street photography incredibly
sterile and predictable - mere snapshots - but Ansel Adams was an artist.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho

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Päivä: 22. huhtikuuta 2002 20:24
Aihe: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV


>2002-04-22-12:51:02 B. D. Colen:
>> 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'd hazard a guess that the category you describe above may have more
>members than you think;  you've done an excellent job of summing up
>my reaction to AA's contributions as well.
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