Ansel Adams images.

Great photographs imho. I wasn't aware the were unpopular in the US. They certainly were during WWII. I think the mass incarceration without checking the people, was a travesty. I also am not sure how much if any recovered their pre-war property.

But, all that aside, it is always good to see those photographs. They are well composed, and show slices of life there that show the internees were some very resilient people. Thanks to the OP for providing the link.
 
Adams was a commercial photographer before he became a cult favorite in the art world. For many years he photographed the college catalog (boy, is that a thing of the past) for UC Santa Cruz.
 
Adams the Musician

Adams the Musician

Was a classical pianist first. Arty types are arty types. The media doesn't matter. It's all the same to them. The language is the same, the styles are the same, the history is the same.
 
Dektol Dan said:
Was a classical pianist first. Arty types are arty types. The media doesn't matter. It's all the same to them. The language is the same, the styles are the same, the history is the same.
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Yep and it was that music connection that helped him come up with the zone system. He thought that if one could apply values (written notes) to music why couldn't someone do that with different values of gray from black to white so that one could pre determine where the photographer wanted to place those values in the way one see's them in their imagination or as Adams called it his minds eye which may but usually didn't have any real resemblance to the way they were in realty.
 
Yes, I have seen it couple of years ago and Dorothea Lange photos few months ago for the same subject.
 
oftheherd said:
Great photographs imho. I wasn't aware the were unpopular in the US. They certainly were during WWII. I think the mass incarceration without checking the people, was a travesty. I also am not sure how much if any recovered their pre-war property.

But, all that aside, it is always good to see those photographs. They are well composed, and show slices of life there that show the internees were some very resilient people. Thanks to the OP for providing the link.
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Very few. I used to live in Guadalupe, CA, once a major Japanese-American village/town: there was still a very big Buddhist temple there 25 years ago. The Masatanis left their village shop in the hands of Anglos. Unlike most, they got it back.

Go to http://www.artnet.com/artists/ansel...n-richmond-california-3nsa4Fv0quAR4mlv30IVMA2 or http://www.largeformatphotography.i...ildren%94-%96-a-closer-look-at-the-psychology where you will see an amazing AA picture. He borrowed Dorothea Lange's camera for one frame, "because she needed it."

Unlike all too many of his fanboys, AA had both a brain and a social conscience.

Cheers,

R.
 
Dektol Dan said:
Was a classical pianist first. Arty types are arty types. The media doesn't matter. It's all the same to them. The language is the same, the styles are the same, the history is the same.
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Dear Dan,

No. It is simply nonsense to generalize about "arty types". The media (plural: singular, "medium) do matter: I can relate photography to writing, but not to music, and I know I am not alone in that. Others relate photography/ painting, photography/ sculpture, photography/ dance, and more. The styles are NOT the same, the history is NOT the same. Look at the Romantic Movement, from Turner through Goethe to Rejlander and even David Hamilton.

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger yes generalizing can be nonsense but the creative process is, in many ways, coming from the same place no mater what the art form.
 
To the OP, thanks for sharing.

I think it speaks volumes of how shameful this period was during our history that this work of his was unknown to me, and likely, many others. I mean, I've even seen Adams' street photograph work (pretty poor imo), but never this till now.

Given the quality of this set of images, with what they have to say, it's truly a shame these are not celebrated right next to his other more famous works.
 
airfrogusmc said:
Roger yes generalizing can be nonsense but the creative process is, in many ways, coming from the same place no mater what the art form.
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True of course; but that is not the same as saying that skill in one medium automatically implies skill at another. If it were, after all, then Ansel Adams would have been a FAR better writer, not to mention ballet dancer, and George Bernard Shaw would have been a somewhat better musician.

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
True of course; but that is not the same as saying that skill in one medium automatically implies skill at another. If it were, after all, then Ansel Adams would have been a FAR better writer, not to mention ballet dancer, and George Bernard Shaw would have been a somewhat better musician.

Cheers,

R.
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Totally agree Roger. But was that what Dan was implying? :confused:
 
Roger Hicks said:
Very few. I used to live in Guadalupe, CA, once a major Japanese-American village/town: there was still a very big Buddhist temple there 25 years ago. The Masatanis left their village shop in the hands of Anglos. Unlike most, they got it back.

Go to http://www.artnet.com/artists/ansel...n-richmond-california-3nsa4Fv0quAR4mlv30IVMA2 or http://www.largeformatphotography.i...ildren%94-%96-a-closer-look-at-the-psychology where you will see an amazing AA picture. He borrowed Dorothea Lange's camera for one frame, "because she needed it."

Unlike all too many of his fanboys, AA had both a brain and a social conscience.

Cheers,

R.
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Thanks for the links and comments. Interesting.

Roger Hicks said:
True of course; but that is not the same as saying that skill in one medium automatically implies skill at another. If it were, after all, then Ansel Adams would have been a FAR better writer, not to mention ballet dancer, and George Bernard Shaw would have been a somewhat better musician.

Cheers,

R.
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That mental picture will continue to taint my whole day; AA in a tutu. Good grief! :D
 
I know this Ansels photos. It was taken in American camp for Japanese living in USA during IIWW. I bought the book on Alibris three years ago. Big book, poor print. I find it.Ansel Adams: Landscapes of the American West
 
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