RE: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

You don't have to labor over an 8x10 neg in the darkroom to appreciate Ansel
Adam's darkroom craft. All you have to have done is gone in a darkroom once
and tried to print anything, and you understand what he was able to
accomplish.

However, before you suggest that it's such a snap to make "perfectly
beautiful digital prints," I suggest that you don't know what's involved in
doing that until you've spent "hours" in front of a monitor "trying to get
a(n image) just right." It's done in daylight, and it's a dry process - but
it is not a snap by any stretch of the imagination. Same kinds of
challenges; different set of tools.

B. D.

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams on PBS TV


As in anything, there are some people who can't appreciate a craft
without having the experience of having done it themselves. I think that
if you have spend hours in a darkroom trying to get a print just right,
you are better prepared to understand the excellence of Adam's work.
Perhaps it's confusing at this moment in time with the advent of the
digital "darkroom." One can make perfectly beautiful digital art and
still be unaware of the craft of the darkroom.

Allan


On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Henry Ting wrote:
> 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.

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