Although I like AA's work, I believe he deserves his status for writing "The well-tempered photography," and describing the science underneath the process, more than for his images. Liking his work is a matter of taste.
I was thinking along that line, my list included Diane Arbus and Sally Mann... and I know where I can find a Ruth Bernard book by Jim Alinder
Adams is also important for the influence his photographs had amongst the efforts of the Sierra Club and the others instrumental in the early environmental movement.
If you don't have a sense of that, I think you are missing something important about the role of photography in society.
Sal Santamaura, frank and I were discussing "how" my son, who is taking a photography course, does not know who Ansel Adams is.
I know little of what my father does, so it makes sense. We live our lives together but I haven't been focusing too much on "teaching" my children to take over the family business.
I often cringe to find Ansel Adams is the first photographer that comes to "most" people's minds.
Now that he's taking a class, I'm actually excited by the prospect of introducing him to photographers who I consider important.
So that maybe the first person he will think of is someone else.
Who should it be?
I.m surprised no onehas mentioned Eadweard Muybridge. An Englishman who went to North America to show them what photography was all about and was instrumental in the development of the movies
I detect a certain amount of bias on show here
Sal Santamaura, frank and I were discussing "how" my son, who is taking a photography course, does not know who Ansel Adams is.
I know little of what my father does, so it makes sense. We live our lives together but I haven't been focusing too much on "teaching" my children to take over the family business.
I often cringe to find Ansel Adams is the first photographer that comes to "most" people's minds.
Now that he's taking a class, I'm actually excited by the prospect of introducing him to photographers who I consider important.
So that maybe the first person he will think of is someone else.
Who should it be?
Who should it be?
I wonder if everyone would find it far more difficult to recommened current practicing and upcoming photographers to look at rather than all the usual historic suspects.
I often cringe to find Ansel Adams is the first photographer that comes to "most" people's minds.
me too, there is a whole world of people with cameras out there who have made a huge impact,
maybe they didn't write books, or become synonymous with the words "landscape photography" or "zone system"
( because their catalog was never mass marketed into 10$ posters &c ) but just the same
there have been oodles of people who used cameras whose POV, style, darkroom work and other "stuff"
is commonplace today, because they laid the foundation that a lot of people build on
but still their names are more obscure and out of the main stream.
similar to film making and georges méliès. techniques he invented are still used today but no one
except a few knew who he was until recently ( and the movie hugo brought him + his work to light )
Melies is fascinating, but do you really think an introductory photography student is going to be interested in him or people like him? I think he's more of an advanced student topic, or someone who might interest that one really weird intelligent artsy kid in the class. Or you, or me. But not of general interest to beginners.
That's just my take; I'm not a teacher and I'm not a father.
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