Are you trying to say, that I can't be fan of b&w landscape photography if I don't know ALL american phtographers, ALL facts from their lives, ALL photos they have ever made? I understand that you know perfectly works of: Bułhak, Pierściński, Wołkow, Hejke, Kamoda...To not know that Edward Weston was a landscape photographer indicates quite a profound ignorance of the subject. .
+1 for Doremus
Thanks Dick! And you guys are looking at old work on my website, etc. I'm in the process of an update and new work should be up there in a month or so.
Best,
Doremus
These lists go on and on. Depends on what generation you are. I'll admit I tend to ridicule all this hero worship nonsense. Go out and do something
yourself. But then, I've also learned a lot from some of them. So rather than making a list, I'll just frankly note those names that have had special
relevance to me personally, and they are admittedly titans of the genre already mentioned: Carleton Watkins and PH Emerson in the late 19thC, Edward and Brett Weston in the early to mid 20th. Eliot Porter in color. I authentically consider myself equal to many of the living names, so either ridicule me, or canonize me onto another list once I'm officially eligible, as in dead. That seems to be the prerequisite.
Eliot got on the map doing black and white, via Stieglitz. It was his obsession with birds that led him into color printing. Later he sometimes took his
red separation negatives for dye transfer work (made from chrome film) and printed these as ordinary black and white prints. Not much of the later
b&w has been decently published. Some of the earlier ones have been.
Nothing, Bob. Since it was contacted from a chrome it wouldn't even have anywhere near the range of of a shot taken with ordinary black and white film in the first place. But color film is what he shot at the time, and afterwards he might have wanted to see the same image in black and white. The red separation would have given him darker greens and skies just like a red filter over a camera lens. What dye transfer printers sometimes did was
to print monochrome images using black dye with matrix film rather than printing on normal papers. The advantage of this was the greater intensity
of black dye or DMax in the print versus a silver image. The disadvantage is that it would be somewhat less sharp. I've never tried that myself, though
I have printed onto bromide papers using single separation negs from chromes. It was fun, so what the heck! Why not.
I had a peek too and there are some very pleasing images in your current online portfolio.Thanks Dick! And you guys are looking at old work on my website, etc. I'm in the process of an update and new work should be up there in a month or so.
Best,
Doremus
John Sexton,Alan RossHello
Can you name at least three great masters of B@W landscape photography?
I have tried lately.
1) Michael Kenna
2) Ansel Adams
3) Eeee.... Michael Kenna?
But probably I'm missing someone. Any suggestions?
M_alice
PS. Probably I should mention something that is called "Kielecka szkoła krajobrazu" but it's a group of people, not one person.
These lists go on and on. Depends on what generation you are. I'll admit I tend to ridicule all this hero worship nonsense. Go out and do something
yourself. But then, I've also learned a lot from some of them. So rather than making a list, I'll just frankly note those names that have had special
relevance to me personally, and they are admittedly titans of the genre already mentioned: Carleton Watkins and PH Emerson in the late 19thC, Edward and Brett Weston in the early to mid 20th. Eliot Porter in color. I authentically consider myself equal to many of the living names, so either ridicule me, or canonize me onto another list once I'm officially eligible, as in dead. That seems to be the prerequisite.
Hi Paul,
That's some serious large printing. Nice to see how that's done. Is that you in this in this film?
+1Many APUG members. The gallery has some stunning B&W landscape photos.
These lists go on and on. Depends on what generation you are. I'll admit I tend to ridicule all this hero worship nonsense. Go out and do something yourself.
... I authentically consider myself equal to many of the living names, so either ridicule me, or canonize me onto another list once I'm officially eligible, as in dead. That seems to be the prerequisite.
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