Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well - even a true master may not have 100% success rate. Not even HCB, not Wimberley (whoever he is) - you name it. But as you said: "Most people remember half a dozen of Ansel Adams' pictures" - and you cannot say that of many photographers. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com> Vastaanottaja: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 04. joulukuuta 2000 17:40 Aihe: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams/John Wimberley WAS Mapplethorpe, highquailty porn >on 3/12/00 4:04 pm, Dean Chance at mreyebal@pacbell.net wrote: > <snip>Most people >remember half a dozen of Ansel Adams' pictures... clearing winter storm, the >famous desert pic, black sun, moonrise over hernandez, the 1927 el capitan >picture...and some of those are indeed great and (somewhat) moving images. >BUT the great majority of his work simply does not get anywhere near these >standards. He is a photographic wordsworth in many ways... a man who >attempted to penetrate the sublime and occasionally did but who more often >fell victim to his own prosaic limits, without ever really celebrating them. <snip>