Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
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on 4/12/00 3:50 pm, Jim Brick at jim_brick@agilent.com wrote:
> What I was thinking of is John's most famous book "Quiet Light"
> http://www.photography.net/html/sexton.html . John is his own photographer
> for sure, but some of the Ansel Adams heritage can be seen in his work.
> John worked for Ansel 1979 to 1982 and lived only a few miles from him for
> many years.
I hadn't seen any of this. I guess this is his earlier work? It definitely
shows the AA influence. I guess the stuff I was talking about it is a bit
later... you can see some image from PLACES OF POWER here:
http://ventanaeditions.com/pop.html
I would say the Quiet Light stuff seems a little in Ansel's shadow for my
taste.
As for the man jumping over the puddle we will have to disagree I think.
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