One of Adams' earliest commercial assignments was to photograph
Dominican College of San Rafael, CA and its students for promotional
purposes. Many of the photos were hanging in the library there when I
was there last year. They seemed to me to technically sound but nothing
special. A couple are good portraiture in that they capture some sense
of the life and nature of the subjects, but many other photographers are
better at that kind of thing. I seem to recall that this was a very
important assignment for him in getting started at making enough money
and getting public exposure to make it as a commercial photographer.
Moose
John A. Lind wrote:
Regarding A.A.
I believe his success came in his last years, a long time in coming
for him. IIRC he made his living doing commercial photography during
most of his professional life. I have not seen his "commercial" work
done as a "gun for hire" but from what I've heard about it, they are
nothing like his landscapes. It likely represents his doing the
former to put bread on the table and subsidize his passion for
photographing the latter.
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