Oren Mills Sr died in 1978 -- his company of portrait studios and church directories was sold to Lifetouch last year.
I didn't know they were sold....
Ooh, good, a fight about "art"!
I don't like AA just because of the amount of manipulation it takes to create those prints, as if they aren't prints of those negatives, but fabrications for the lust of the general public.
...But good expressions of what AA wanted to present. It just wasn't what AA shot.
That said, I do a bit of manipulation of my scenic landscapes, it's part of pulling in what I saw to the material I have available.
tim in san jose
Also this begs the question was AA (or you) totally color blind? B&W photography is one major step beyond what any of us see/shoot.
Reading many of these sour grapes posts referencing AA, I would simply suggest that it would at least be wise to spend some time actually reading about the man and his art before categorizing and judging him. There is one autobiography as well as the book "Letters...". And then spend some time in the Sierra Nevada, away from the burger joints.
Adams did a good bit of photography in color. However, it just wasn't his bag, as it were. There was a pretty hefty book published awhile ago title, "Ansel Adams in Color." Decent photographs, but nothing really spectacular. I suspect that he just didn't pursue it.
"The World is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks"A little wisdom from HCB.
"The World is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks"A little wisdom from HCB.
Adams certainly knew how to market himself much as Kinkade did, I will not contest this. You said something about Adams posters. Though they do exist online I have yet to see Ansel Adams coffee mugs, puzzles, mousepads and decorative plates in any brick and mortar stores or on the Ansel Adams gallery site. However, I have seen Kinkade on all these things pretty much everywhere that sells home decor.
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I hadn't heard about his passing until now. Did he go toward the light?
Too soon?
I hadn't heard about his passing until now. Did he go toward the light?
Too soon?
He was sort of a contradiction because he was part of F64 which was the antithesis to the pictorialists or romanticism he wished to replace. I think they saw their work as realism.
The irony is that his work is not really realism but maybe hyper-realism which could be described as a form of romanticism of a particular scene.
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