a place that no longer looks anything like the scene AA photographed....
Probably just playing the written music differently as skills, experience, and outlook on life grew.Basically, it was a flawed negative that he whipped into shape!
Many decades ago I saw an exhibit of his prints in different iterations over time. Friends of Photography Gallery near Moscone Center. Both long gone it seems. It really made me wonder which version he actually visualized when he clicked the shutter. LOL
There are various places he told the story. I recommend his book, Examples. It took him quite awhile to arrive at the black-sky version of printing it. I've seen prints made prior to that, and their less dense skies exhibit a lot of processing streaks and so forth, characteristic of the water bath development he used. Anyway, it wasn't taken in Santa Fe, but the small town of Hernandez NM.
Probably just playing the written music differently as skills, experience, and outlook on life grew.
Well, the moon is as about as bright as a sunny landscape.
I think he had a contact at nasa it's in one if his books
Jim Alinder had a dup neg of Moonrise taped to a window inside door of his gallery near Mendicino. He showed it to me when we visited several years back.
There’s almost nothing on the negative.
Well, it was 1941 and he was using an 8X10 camera. In the modern world, if he'd had a handheld camera with a built in light meter, he could have jumped out of his car and snapped off a dozen shots, bracketing exposures and compositions, in the time it took to get one 8X10 shot. So it was quite the technical achievement. In fact I've often wondered if his traveling companions had a folder in their pocket and got their own version of "Moonrise".
Don_ih, I live in New Mexico and I can assure you the scene looks very different today, as well it should after 80 years. The biggest impression is the abject poverty of Hernandez. And with F350 trucks barrelling down that two lane road at 80 mph, pulling over to get the shot would carry an element of danger!
It's my understanding that he did intensification on the foreground portion of the negative.
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