The essay includes another bit of nonsense to which I should have called attention. He writes, "Adams's wilderness studies are the staple of the gift store rather than the cutting-edge art gallery, " '
This is simply untrue. Most major art museums in the United states, including the Met, the Getty, and the Chicago Art Institute have Adams prints in their collections. Paul On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I find the essayist's snoopy metaphor silly and demeaning. And while he > admits to an Adams renaissance, t's clear that he doesn't understand the > artistry of Adams' work and how he was able to bend light in the darkroom to > idealize a scene. He seems dismissive of the zone system, a a way of working > that redefined photographic excellence. The writer continues to demonstrate > his lack of photographic knowledge in asserting that an f64 aperture results > in both optimum depth of field and clarity. Depth of field, yes. Clarity, no. > > Art takes many forms, and the elitists of every generation are always anxious > to dismiss the heroes of a previous era. But Adams, like his literary > siblings, Whitman and Thoreau, will still be revered when some of the > pretentious crap that now passes for artful photography has long been > forgotten. > > Paul > On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Talk about Ansel Adams (see "A door to nowhere" thread) had me searching for >> something about a repeated criticism of Ansel Adams that I've run across: >> that he's the Normal Rockwell of photogs; that his output is kitsch rather >> than art; that his belief in beauty above all rather then social relevance, >> left him on the bottom rung of fine arts. >> >> So I located this excellent essay: >> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ansel-adams-but-is-it-art-749574.html >> >> Criticism of AA seems to boil down to a fashion thing. It seems to be safe >> to like Adams again. :) >> >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
