Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: RE: Ansel Adams on PBS TV
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:42:15 -0700 (PDT)

Very well said.
He is both a craftsman and an artist who knows how to
control the result he wants. It's an art he fine-tuned
to a point that he has total control over his style.
Now, not all people like his work, but there is no
denying that he developed a style that is uniquely
his.

- --- SthRosner@aol.com wrote:
> I am with Jim in every word he has written in this
> Ansel post except......
> 
> In a message dated 4/22/02 9:02:47 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, jim@brick.org 
> writes:
> 
> > Ansel Adams was a true master of the craft of
> photography.
> 
> .......that if there is any implication that Adams'
> talent was limited to 
> craft, I part company. He had the vision and
> imagination to know, ultimately, 
> exactly what he wanted to see on the silver-coated
> paper he would ultimately 
> produce, the doggedness of purpose to devote himself
> to returning time and 
> time again, to getting to inaccessible viewpoints
> through great effort and 
> the patience to wait for just the moment when the
> light was exactly as he 
> needed it to be for that particular exposure. 
> 
> This was not a photographer who ran off a few dozen
> rolls of 35mm film at 
> each "shoot" in the hope that maybe one of them
> might be good enough. He had 
> to carry an 8X10 view camera and glass plates, later
> a smaller camera but 
> still cut film in a holder. And he needed to
> visualize in advance just what 
> he needed to see in order to cap[ture it on that
> plate.
> 
> As Jim says, visit Yosemite, especially off-season
> when the crowds are gone. 
> Then imagine a world in which there were no Ansel
> Adams photographs to show 
> you the way and ask yourself, could I create images
> that convey the awesome 
> sense that God lives here? 
> 
> I am astonished at some of the remarks that have
> appeared here in the last 
> day.
> 
> Seth     LaK 9  
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