Adams at The Getty

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:27:39 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:
: | 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.
:
: I think I may have also seen those. At the MFA and
: the Essex Museum? I greatly enjoyed the former exhibit,
: maybe 3-4 years ago. The latter, probably about a year
: ago, I found disappointing. There were lots of landscapes,
: like beaches with sunlight playing on surfaces. Nothing
: in that exhibit moved me. It seemed that he was really
: just experimenting with light effects. If you saw that same
: exhibit I'd be curious to hear your take on it.

Yes, those were the ones, at the MFA and the PEM.

The MFA exhibit was more quintessentially Adams, including many of the
pictures that are commonly reproduced. But we didn't find the PEM exhibit
boring, because it was intended to show a different (if somewhat less
successful) side of Adams's work. And my recollection is that it was the PEM
exhibit that included the large bank murals, though Martha thinks I'm probably
wrong about that.

An interesting feature of the MFA exhibit was about a dozen pictures that
Adams had taken on his Brownie when he was around twelve years old. Most of
those were, in a word, awful. I suspect that it was looking back on those
murky, leaden images that made Adams such a stickler for sharpness throughout
his professional career.

Bob

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:17:44 -0500, Neil Ellwood
wrote:
: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:39:25 -0400, PeterN wrote:
:
: 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:
: :
: : 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 :
: : http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html
: :
: :
: : There is an exhibition of his work in Indianapolis this Summer,
: also.
: :
: : 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.
:
: Good for you.
: We all like differing things in this life and just because anyone does
: something a certain way doesn't mean that is the only way. Finding your
: own style gives a person pleasure.
:
: It was my wife's birthday last saturday and the whole family went for a
: meal at one of the local chines restaurants. My daughter had forgotten her
: camera and mine was the only one at the dinner. After the dinner Marion
: (my daughter) asked if she could download the photos (only a few) for her
: album on her tablet.
:
: The difference between our results was amazing.

I'm confused. Was the amazing difference between pictures you took and
pictures she took with your camera? Or between pictures you took at the dinner
and pictures she had taken at other events?

Bob

On 2014-03-22 15:36:14 +0000, Robert Coe said:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:17:44 -0500, Neil Ellwood
wrote:
: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:39:25 -0400, PeterN wrote:
:
: 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:
: :
: : 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 :
: : http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html
: :
: :
: : There is an exhibition of his work in Indianapolis this Summer,
: also.
: :
: : 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.
:
: Good for you.
: We all like differing things in this life and just because anyone does
: something a certain way doesn't mean that is the only way. Finding your
: own style gives a person pleasure.
:
: It was my wife's birthday last saturday and the whole family went for a
: meal at one of the local chines restaurants. My daughter had forgotten her
: camera and mine was the only one at the dinner. After the dinner Marion
: (my daughter) asked if she could download the photos (only a few) for her
: album on her tablet.
:
: The difference between our results was amazing.

I'm confused. Was the amazing difference between pictures you took and
pictures she took with your camera? Or between pictures you took at the dinner
and pictures she had taken at other events?

Obviously since we had two different photographers sharing one camera
there were "amazing" differences.

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:57:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worse than his taken at the same event?
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2014-03-23 00:37:24 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:57:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worse than his taken at the same event?

OK! So you corrected my punctuation oversight. Now what?

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 3/22/2014 11:57 AM, Savageduck wrote:

snip

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


I used to like liverworst.

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PeterN

On 3/22/2014 8:51 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2014-03-23 00:37:24 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:57:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worse than his taken at the same event?

OK! So you corrected my punctuation oversight. Now what?


Well you didn't insist that your usage was correct. ;-)

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PeterN

On 3/22/2014 9:28 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:51:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-03-23 00:37:24 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:57:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worse than his taken at the same event?

OK! So you corrected my punctuation oversight. Now what?

That's the worst job of punctuation editing I've seen. The comma
should be removed between "better" and "or", but that isn't the more
noticeable error.



no it aint.

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PeterN

On 2014-03-23 01:57:35 +0000, PeterN said:

On 3/22/2014 11:57 AM, Savageduck wrote:

snip

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


I used to like liverworst.

Phingrr phawlt.
--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2014-03-23 01:28:45 +0000, Tony Cooper said:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:51:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-03-23 00:37:24 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:57:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worst than his taken at the same event.


More importantly, since the camera both used was Neil's, were his
daughter's results better, or worse than his taken at the same event?

OK! So you corrected my punctuation oversight. Now what?

That's the worst job of punctuation editing I've seen.

Some how I don't think that is an accurate assessment.

The comma should be removed between "better" and "or", but that isn't the more
noticeable error.

Oh! Well.


--
Regards,

Savageduck