[Leica] what are the most important aspects of a photographicimage?

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2011-01-05-12:07:06 tedgrant at shaw.ca:
> AA's are merely big piles of rocks and ferns as sterile as a neutered Monk!

You go, Ted!  Every now and then someone needs to take a poke at the Cult of 
Ansel.

And not a moment too soon, given some of the disbelieving responses you've 
gotten...

I have immense respect for Adams as a photographic technician and
craftsman, and for the way he synthesized aspects of photographic
practice into a coherent whole, and communicated that.  But the photos
rarely move me.

And yes, I have seen genuwyine Adams prints.  They had a certain
presence as objects, but still didn't really make me fall in love with
the images.  The ones I saw were really (perhaps hyper-) dramatic,
with black black blacks and white whites, pretty dark in overall tone
(someone told me this was the mark of a particular phase in Adams's
printing life), and seemed if anything a little over-the-top.

And I also agree that there are others (even here on the LUG) who make
lamdscapes come more alive (to me).  Mr. Adler is indeed an example -
there seems to be an attention to light and the way human feelings and
an image interact, and an almost lit-from-within feeling in some of
his photos.

 -Jeff