From: David M. Young (david@cloudance.com)
Date: 09/02/02-07:58:58 PM Z
At 06:13 PM 9/2/02 +0000, Katharine Thayer wrote:
>"Toward the end of his career this reinterpretation seemed at time to
>amount almost to parody. "
...
>"And yet it was surely Adams' right to make the change, and we should
>not be too swift, or too confident, in judging him wrong. It has been
>suggested that the change may have been caused by Adams' faltering
>vision, but the explanation seems not wholly persuasive."
Anyone (well... I did as did David Vestal in the last Photo Techniques
magazine) ever think that Adams just simply got bored printing the same
things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
and over....
I had the rare opportunity to look at a large number of AA's prints. Not in
a museum or gallery mind you, but holding them in my own two hands looking
as closely as I wanted to short of letting my nose touch the prints. His
early prints are beautiful and inspired.... the later ones, well, boring.
I also have to note that I'm by far and away more of a Weston fan than I am
an Adams fan... Brett Weston that is.
Cheers,
D.
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