Digital BW, The Print

Ansel Adams manipulated his prints as much as they could possibly be
manipulated, in the darkroom. Suggest you read his "The Making of 40
Photographs", which tells how he manipulated them, and why.

Jerry








Loris Medici wrote:
> 
> > -----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.
> 
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