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Subject: [Leica] Ansel
From: leowesson at charter.net (leo)
Date: Mon Mar 7 18:13:39 2005
References: <20050308012042.10078.qmail@web20027.mail.yahoo.com>

I downloaded a hi res image from this site and made a print of the shot 
of Mr Kobayashi.  Looks great.Also did this with Lange Curtis and 
others.
I found this sequence of the migrant mother shots very interesting...

http://homepage.mac.com/leosarv/loc/PhotoAlbum112.html

Leo


On Mar 7, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Der Eiserne Reiter wrote:

> I cann't keep quiet on this one. Above my monitor, at work, I have a 
> print of
> AA (Rac Lake) and Stieglitz (A Ventian Canal) right next to each 
> other. To me,
> this is more than a question of talent, IMHO.
>
> In my (engineering :-) mind a major part of art is using available 
> tools to develop
> a language to communicate sometimes non-trivial issues of importance
> to a receiver (and I consider myself on the receiving end ...).
>
> In the late 30s and early 40s, AA did exactly this, on the shoot and 
> in the
> darkroom. At least with me, much of his work deeply resonates. With 
> respect to
> tool usage, he did some good for Hasselblad.
>
> I doubt the above is true for the likes of Kincaid (who produces what 
> we call
> in German "Kitsch"). What a marketing machine made out AA's work is a 
> different
> story. If he made money out of it - good for him, I read that AA had a 
> hard
> time financially in the beginning.
>
> Maybe this is trivia, but here is an example link to some non-calendar 
> Art work of AA:
>
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html
>
> 2 more cents ...
>
> Roland.
>
> --- Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Isn't that a little harsh B.D.? AA's work may not be your cup of tea,
>> but
>> it's hardly crap. I myself may not be a huge Adams fan, but he was an
>> extremely talented man.
>>
>> feli
>>
>> On Mar 7, 2005, at 9:07 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:
>>
>>> Well, first off - of course there were!
>>>
>>> Second, I, too, would like to have a body of work so universally
>>> revered
>>> - I would just hope that mine, like that of, say, W. Eugene Smith,
>>> Robert Capa, Richard Avedon, or Henri Cartier-Bresson was worth being
>>> revered. (And NO - I am not saying that I am worthy to have even
>>> carried
>>> their equipment. ;-) )
>>> The sad reality is that far, far, far more people revere the 
>>> paintings
>>> of Keene, or of Kincaid, than have even HEARD of the photographers 
>>> I've
>>> just mentioned. Universal veneration does not quality make.:-)
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