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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.m.korhonen@uusikaupunki.fi>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:56:36 +0200

You got it... all wrong. I am actually for photojournalism type of photography and portraiture - but random shooting of unknown people does not do anything for me. The same goes for random shooting of rocks etc.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho

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Lähettäjä: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 23. huhtikuuta 2002 0:12
Aihe: RE: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV


>Go Raimo! People are a huge irrelevant bore...Shoot those rocks! ;-)
>
>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 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
>
>-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
>Lähettäjä: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>
>Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
><leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>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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