Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams at 100

["thomas schofield" <tdschofield@msn.com>]

I saw the exhibit Friday afternoon after 1 hour of standing in the rain to 
get in!  After viewing the exhibit, then going through the other floors, I 
returned during thelast 15 minutes and was able to see again without the 
crowds.

Don't miss the world's largest gray card on the 2d floor -- 4' x 8' solid 
grey painting.  (Actually, it looked a little darker than 18%.)  I could've 
whipped several out in an hour with a Power Painter and a gallon of Latex, 
if I had thought it would be a museum piece!  Reminds me of the all white 
painting that was there when the Carleton Watkins exhibit was showing -- not 
even brush strokes -- it was intended to show the absence of artistic input!

Tom Schofield

>From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: "leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: [Leica] Ansel Adams at 100
>Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:03:25 -0800
>
>I'm just back from the Ansel Adams exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of
>Modern Art.
>
>What an experience! So much of his work - many images I have never seen.
>
>It was wonderful to watch his development in printing. I often found myself
>wondering what the negative looked like - what choices he made to produce
>the print he ultimately created. None of these issues were addressed in the
>narrative. In fact there was a veiled criticism of his re-printing 
>negatives
>40 years after the fact. In all cases I found his later prints to be much
>more to my liking than the prints which dated from the '40s. The narrative
>referred to his late-life prints as being "melodramatic." I guess I saw a
>man who was out to capture every nuance of the negative and worked until he
>was able to express what he desired.
>
>Anyway - it's a wonderful exhibition. It took me about an hour and a half 
>to
>walk through the first time. I went down and shared an ice-tea with my wife
>and then we went back and looked at images we particular admired.
>
>If you get a chance to go by all means enjoy this exhibition.
>
>One word: with perhaps two exceptions it is entirely his landscapes and
>nature photography. No portraits. No architecture (except one photo in New
>York City). I feel this is a serious omission but given the demands of
>space, hey, I can respect the curator's decisions. (mighty nice of me, eh?)
>
>This was a wonderful Christmas present.
>
>Adam Bridge

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