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There is an interesting Ansel Adams exhibit at the San Diego museum of photography.  What made it really worthwhile for me was the side-by-side exhibition of multiple prints of Moonrise, Hernandez.  The three prints showed the relatively subtle changes Adams made to get to the print he wanted.  The exhibit also contains a replica of the negative and a photo of Ansel between a "straight print" of moonrise and the final print.  

There are a couple of other comparisons of prints of the same negative that are interesting.

Steve

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Stephen Kobrin wrote:

> What made it really worthwhile for me was the side-by-side  
> exhibition of multiple prints

What I took away from viewing a museum display of AA prints was that  
even people who have paid money to get in can't bring themselves to  
stop in front of the smaller images, they just stroll on by, and don't  
stop until they get to something larger than 8x10. The larger the  
image, the bigger the crowd. The largest images weren't AA prints,  
they were inkjet blowups of photos of Adams with his camera, Adams  
with O'Keefe, etc...  and they drew more people than the actual photo  
prints. Size, as the saying goes, does matter...

Oh, and the museum giftshop was doing a brisk business in prints,  
books, and especially calendars and postcards of Adams images.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
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That's a good way of showing Moonrise - or any other image that a master
printer like Ansel revisits at different times.  Mary Alinder's excellent
bio of Ansel discusses his later printing (when she worked for him) as being
darker & richer than his earlier printing.  If I remember correctly., his
eyesight had clouded somewhat and he'd sometimes go for too much "drama" or
over-tone a full day's work and have to redo it.  Those are among the very
few stories where Ansel comes across as grumpy when he had to be convinced a
batch of prints weren't good. 

 

Bob G  

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There is an interesting Ansel Adams exhibit at the San Diego museum of
photography. What made it really worthwhile for me was the side-by-side
exhibition of multiple prints of Moonrise, Hernandez. The three prints
showed the relatively subtle changes Adams made to get to the print he
wanted. The exhibit also contains a replica of the negative and a photo of
Ansel between a "straight print" of moonrise and the final print. 

There are a couple of other comparisons of prints of the same negative that
are interesting.

Steve

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On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Bob Geoghegan wrote:

> That's a good way of showing Moonrise - or any other image that a  
> master
> printer like Ansel revisits at different times.  Mary Alinder's  
> excellent
> bio of Ansel discusses his later printing (when she worked for him)  
> as being
> darker & richer than his earlier printing.  If I remember  
> correctly., his
> eyesight had clouded somewhat and he'd sometimes go for too much  
> "drama" or
> over-tone a full day's work and have to redo it.  Those are among  
> the very
> few stories where Ansel comes across as grumpy when he had to be  
> convinced a
> batch of prints weren't good.


The availability of new high contrast fiber papers also effected the  
later prints of classic images during the 50s; I notice this most with  
Caponigro.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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Datacolor
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