[Leica] Re: Ansel Adams

[daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)]

I don't know ... I'm leaning towards BD on this. Maybe I've just seen them
on almanacs too much.

I doubt that the powers that be care much one way or another if the
environment/wilderness gets preserved. They won't mind, as long as there's
no oil in it. His pictures haven't really had much influence now-a-days on
that. I get the feeling that those in power regard such questions as sissy
concerns. Nothing for real men.

Daniel

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, dnygr wrote:

> Even if Ansel Adams hadn't done all those technical things you righty
> credit him for, he would still be revered for his focus on the
> environment/wilderness and its need to be preserved.
>
> His photos have as much social menaing as the moving pictures of people
> during the Great Depression. That aspect of him gets lost through the
> commerializiton of his work.
>
> Doug Nygren