From: Dave Rose (cactuscowboy@attbi.com)
Date: 02/07/03-01:48:37 PM Z
I believe that jealousy is behind a lot of the Ansel-bashing. "Cheap shots"
in my opinion as well. Who doubts that 100 years from now Adams will appear
in photography/art history books as one of the most influential
photographers of his time? He's given us an enormously popular body of
beautiful work, made innumerable technical contributions to the art and
science of photography, and was outstanding in the conservation movement.
By all accounts I've read or heard, he was a kind and generous man, well
respected and liked by his peers.
Of the two articles I read today on the LA Times website, neither was
disparaging or unfairly critical. The links:
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-pagel6feb06.story
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-isenberg2feb02.story
Best regards,
Dave in Wyoming
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From: <Argon3@aol.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Ansel Adams Article in LA Times
> I've noted that AA has been subject to the sort of "trashing" that I've
seen
> take place with other artists from other disciplines...when I was at film
> school it was trendy to trash Stanley Kubrick, for example. I've come to
> appreciate AA's whole life and body of work. I don't put him on a
pedestal
> by any means but he does appeal to me as a person who did what they did
well
> and "walked the walk".
> It's easy to dis artist because they are figurative or make "pretty
things"
> or don't necessarily have some deep seated political agenda streaming
through
> their work. Cheap shots in my opinion. I hope that AA is appreciated
for
> what he did accomplish and the contributions that he made to the technical
> side of photography (he was a consultant to Land on the development of
> Polaroid, for example). One of the funniest things I've ever seen is the
> photo of AA dressed as Moses holding two stone tablets with the ten zones
on
> them...priceless. I saw the AA at 100 show when it was in Chicago and
when
> my 11 year old daughter and I overheard an older woman viewing "Clearing
> Winter Storm" say to her companion, "Just look at the detail!", we both
> looked at each other with that "what do you expect from the heathens"
look.
>
> argon
>
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