Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:57 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: un-altered camera image
> 
> ...
> "With Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and a handful of 
> other photographers, Adams founded in the early 1930s Group 
> f/64, which was dedicated to straight photography as an art 
> form. Photography at the time was dominated by the 
> "pictorialists," who created staged, artificial (and now 
> largely forgotten) photographs that imitated the conventions 

Just to address the sarcasm enclosed in parenthesis: I simply don't
beleive that Joel-Peter Witkin's (which is not the only photographer to
present staged, artificial photographs) work will be forgotten in the
future...

> of painting. Adams was instrumental in the struggle to gain 
> for photography recognition as art on its own merits." 
> <http://www.turtlebay.org/exhibitions/anseladams/pg04.html>
> ...

> ...
> Near the end of his life, Adams produced prints 
> intended to represent his life's work not just as a series of 
> landscape images but as a panorama of the possibilities of 
> the "straight," unmanipulated style to which he adhered."

I don't consider AA's work unmanipulated at all. Did you see the
straight print of "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite" in his book "The
Print"? It has nothing to do with the "finished" print presented few
pages later. If his photographs were not manipulated the contact print
and the enlargement of the same negative would look identical apart the
sizing (which is impossible in the case of AA).

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adams/adams_clearing_winter_stor
m_full.html (this is not the best reproduction though)

> ...

Regards,
Loris.