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Old March 21st 14, 11:39 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,alt.photography
PeterN[_4_]
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Default Adams at The Getty

On 3/20/2014 4:37 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2014-03-20 18:45:48 +0000, PeterN said:

On 3/19/2014 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:11:01 GMT, Jeff wrote:
: Savageduck wrote in
: news:2014031622253916211-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:
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: It looks like a drive down to The Getty might be worth taking.
:
:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/B...Adams-photos-o
: n-display-5323226.php
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: http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html
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:
: There is an exhibition of his work in Indianapolis this Summer, also.
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: http://www.eiteljorg.org/explore/exh...ns/ansel-adams

Martha and I have seen two (quite different) Adams exhibits in the
Boston area
in the past eight or ten years. Both were well worth seeing. Watch
for the
enormous murals he did for some San Francisco bank and for the
picture of one
of the minor falls in (I think) Yosemite, where he overprinted a
mirror image
to enhance the effect. Adams is one of the more interesting
photographers of
his time. Like Benjamin Franklin, he was arguably born too early to
get the
most out of his life. If Adams were, say, fifty years old today, he
might be
the world's leading expert on Photoshop.


Absolutely true, and yet the f64 school claims to abhor image
manipulation with PS.


Since when did any of the members of the f/64 school ever have access to
PS?



I was talking about the modern day successors, such as Stephen Johnson,
who believes that PS should only be used to make only those PS
adjustments that do minor color adjustments, levels, curves, etc. No
removal of objects; no image distortion, etc.I took a one week workshop
with him, and admire and respect him. At the end of April I am going ot
a half day seminar his is conducting. But that doesn't mean I agree with
his style.