Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find it to be hard to evaluate Ansel Adam's photographs on their own terms, because he has been such a huge influence on photography as a whole, and landscape photography in particular. So many people make images that are in the "Ansel Adams Mode" that it's sort of like listening to Charlie Parker and trying to remember why he was so revolutionary in his time. I think this makes it easier to dismiss his work as merely a technical tour de force. But, I think that ultimately he did what Mr. Brick said. He captured images of something that he cared deeply about that are able to communicate not only what the place looked like, but WHY he thought the place was so compelling. This is never as easy as it seems to be. And, it's all you can really ask a photographer to do, IMHO. The real prints I've seen are also incredible. What a printer he was. That said, I thought the documentary was a bit sentimental, and perhaps too concentrated on his landscape work as the be all and end all of his career. And, I didn't like the panning and scanning over the photographs. Pete - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html