Great video on Ansel Adams by Ted Forbes

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Enjoy!

http://theartofphotography.tv/episodes/ansel-adams/

 

[Black Dog]

Thanks!

 

[David Allen]

I honestly do not think I have ever watched such a simplistic, ill thought or naive representation of Ansel's work.

David.
www.dsallen.de

 

[jeztastic]

I have tried hard to like this blog, but the chap seems to know little and his style of presentation really puts me off. I've yet to see anything on there I couldn't learn from wikipedia and Google images in 1/10th the time.

 

[Jim17x]

The narrator states the Ansel passed away in 1983 when it was actually 1984. Also the narrator stated that Ansel used sheet film on his Half Dome image, he actually used glass plates..

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

I think Mr. Forbes does a lot for the photographic community. A lot of folks watch him regularly and I'm one of them. He's a proponent of using film. I don't think his presentation conforms to the academic rigor of an art historian, but this video might spark an interest in Ansel Adams where views will explore scholarly article on Mr. Adams.

 

[Jim Jones]

Great video??? As Ted Forbes says, the internet is not ideal for viewing fine photography, and he certainly demonstrates this with poorly presented images. He also belittles books as an indication of what fine prints are really like. I compared 26 prints in a major Adams exhibit with the reproductions in Ansel Adams: Classic Images, and found the book conveyed much more of the feeling of the originals than does this video. The pacing of the images was erratic, with over four minutes of an uninspiring portrait of Maynard Dixon. Claiming Ansel Adams, and to some extent Vivian Maier, as the household icons in photography must be intended as hyperbole.

 

[digital&film]

I think Mr. Forbes does a lot for the photographic community. A lot of folks watch him regularly and I'm one of them.

He's a pretty decent "talking head" on You-Tube, and I always use his episodes to be a primer into my own research. The Mexican Suitcase episode was very good.