From: david distefano (zfd@lightspeed.net)
Date: 09/01/02-03:57:20 PM Z
AA was one hell of a photographer. He touched the soul of the people in this
country and beyond. I know landscapes are considered passe by the so-called
sophisticated photographers of today, but what these people fail to understand
(just like the people in Washington DC)is that the majority of people will look
at a landscape photograph or a painting from the masters, to what is being
produced by todays artists. AA also did more with his images to help preserve
our last remaining wild places. The last few years it has been considered by
many so-called experts in photography to put down AA's work as nothing more then
pretty pictures that does nothing for mankind. Go out into the street and ask
someone who is not a practicing photographer, just someone who does snapshots,
to name a famous photographer. The vast majority will say AA. The reason is his
work touches them. Don't put the man down learn from him. Envy is such a bad
mind set!
Cactus Cowboy wrote:
> I would certainly "take Ansel Adam's opinion" on plenty of issues "beyond
> zone 5 with minus development". Ansel was not "presumably a master
> technician", he was definitely a master technician. I don't think it's fair
> to glibly dismiss Ansel Adams as a "CALENDAR ARTIST". Ansel was an
> enormously talented, creative, hard-working, and influential photographer
> who produced a large body of work loved and appreciated by millions of
> people. That his photographs continue to be reproduced on countless
> hundreds of thousands of posters, notecards, and calendars is a testimonial
> to their excellence and widespread, enduring appeal.
>
> Best regards,
> Dave in Wyoming
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Artist I have been looking at during this nude discussion
>
> > Good Grief, if those Bernhards are "the eternal body," I'm the queen of
> > the May. and would you take Ansel Adams's opinion on ANYTHING beyond zone
> > 5 with minus development? I mean the man is presumably a master
> > technician, but he is, for heaven's sake, a CALENDAR ARTIST.
> >
> > J.
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