Chris,
Thank you. This is the first time in my life that I've been called
fashionable. And I didn't even know it.
We were in a gallery in Santa Fe that had quite a number of fairly large
prints of Adams more famous shots, and as we were looking, my wife said in
asoft voice, "Do you like this stuff?" In an equally soft voice, I noted
that Idon't like to spread this about, but I really don't, but I"m afraid to
mention it out loud around other photographers.
Oh, well...
Bill Pearce
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From: "Chris Crawford" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Lest we lose the real perspective...
> Actually, Bill's feelings on Adams' work is pretty common among
> photographers. Its fashionable in photo circles to say he sucks. His work,
> like that of most photographers whose careers spread over many decades,
> varies. Some is truly magnificent, some is mundane and boring, most is
> neither. The portfolios of most famous photographers are carefully edited
> down by museum curators for publication and exhibition, you don't see the
> bad stuff...but it is there!
>
> Adams published a lot of mundane, artistically uninspired stuff in his
> 'how-to' books because the photos allowed him to illustrate technical
> points
> he was teaching in the texts. Because of the fact that many of those
> images
> were widely published, they get included in museum exhibits of his work. I
> suspect that his body of famous works would be much smaller and different
> if
> he had just been an artist and not a writer about technical issues in
> photography.
>
> Of course, it might still be fashionable to bash him just because he is
> the
> most famous fine art photographer in the United States, probably the only
> one that nearly every person here knows by name.
>
>
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> Chris Crawford
> Fine Art Photography
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
> 260-747-5101
>
> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
>
> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
>
>
>
> On 5/28/09 6:11 AM, "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill. Blasphemy! (just kidding). Apart from myself, I think you are
>> the only other
>> person I've ever seen who does not elevate Adams to godly status. His
>> work is technically
>> great, yes, but so many of his shots are perfectly ordinary in my
>> opinion.
>>
>> On 27 May 2009, at 5:51 PM, Sue Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> On the other hadd, I've seen prints of every size of
>>> Ansel Adams work, and although technically perfect, I find them to
>>> be cold.
>>
>> <snip>
>
>
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