BW Prints. Forums vs Museums.

[Jim Jones]

A major exhibit of Ansel Adams in Peoria, IL, a few years ago, had vintage prints by Adams, and both analog and digital prints provided by the Ansel Adams gallery and the Adams family. I compared 26 of these prints with the reproductions in Ansel Adams: Classic Images published by Little Brown and Company. As Adams stated elsewhere, the reproductions came close to the originals in image quality. A few of the exhibit prints were too large to maintain good quality. The gallery experience had the advantage of including other items such as his Deardorff with an Ektar 10" W.A. other personal items, and prints that he had done himself, all together in a museum environment. However, much that could be learned from the prints could also be learned from the book and other books by the same publisher. Fine images posted online are certainly a different matter.

 

[BrianShaw]

Would someone please explain the "advanced viewer picture" to this Neanderthal viewer. I don't get it at all. Looks like a grab shot of folks walking in front of a street photographer. Dime a dozen and not very interesting. But I'd like to learn; please help me.

 

[BrianShaw]

Uuuughhh. Okayyyyyyyy.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Thanks to (there was a url link here which no longer exists) (john) , (there was a url link here which no longer exists) and (there was a url link here which no longer exists). The best words to describe how I feel after reading yours comments would be "feels like at home".

(there was a url link here which no longer exists), I like some A. Adams photography books. The quality of reproductions is amazing and small size is not limiting me as long as it is not mobile phone screen size. My aunty used to work in publishing house which was specialized in arts. She was showing me some unique books with famous art. She also helped me with learning of art as something different from the fancy snapshot.
I'm studying Winogrand prints scans on-line for some time now and find it also acceptable. The only problem I encouraged after couple of months with looking at prints scans on-line - I don't want to scan negatives anymore, I like prints on hands, in the books and on the screen. I think, it is also where difference between primitive and advanced viewer is. BW scans brings too much technical details and missing the major part of analog photography, the print, the art.

 

[calebarchie]

This thread is paradoxical! Adiòs!

 

[NB23]

The "advanced picture" can only be understood when you're on drugs. Heavy ones.

 

[removed account4]

good luck

 

[Sirius Glass]

Would someone please explain the "advanced viewer picture" to this Neanderthal viewer. I don't get it at all. Looks like a grab shot of folks walking in front of a street photographer. Dime a dozen and not very interesting. But I'd like to learn; please help me.

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It looks like a grab shot to me. Best left for the cutting room floor.

The "advanced picture" can only be understood when you're on drugs. Heavy ones.

I want what he was smokin'. Then again I am probably better without it. I liked the other photographs though.

 

[BrianShaw]

Maybe what Ko is calling " more advanced" is that there is a lot more to wonder and conjecture about. I wonder where those folks are going; are they together or just random individuals brought together by time and space; are they walking into the light because "the time is near"; or what might be in that purse: an empty wallet, a gun, a tampon??? As opposed to the Maid of the Mist, which we readily know but is presented in a much more artful manner than the street scene. If that's the "more advanced viewing/ analysis" then I must be a confirmed artistic Neanderthal. If not, I welcome additional education!

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Guys, thanks. I'm only drinking. At least this is what I answer to hotel check-in question "do you smoke?".

Brain Shaw, I like how you get the "double sync" picture. Your comment on the advanced viewer description is great. You are the "Renaissance Man", not an Artistic Neanderthal.

 

[paul ron]

The "advanced picture" can only be understood when you're on drugs. Heavy ones.

im sure the details will be much cleaner too. ah to read the mind of the creator!

pfffft... wanna pass it down

 

[DREW WILEY]

I'm not quite sure what various expressions on this thread actually imply, such as "Neanderthal images". But thirty and forty thousand year old cave paintings certainly look far more interesting to me than most current "art" photography.

 

[Prof_Pixel]

I'm not quite sure what various expressions on this thread actually imply, such as "Neanderthal images". But thirty and forty thousand year old cave paintings certainly look far more interesting to me than most current "art" photography.

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[Ko.Fe.]

Actually, I was looking at very old engravings, just last week. In Museum. They were real art. Some of them are what I like in photography. It is called "minimalism".