charjohncarter
Veteran
Mr. Adams also photographed with 120 (TLR, I think) many areas in Los Angeles in the early fifties. These are way less know that the Japanese camp photos at least in the US. These LA photos are not his best work, but are slightly popular in Southern California.
Bob Michaels
nobody special
Ansel Adams' Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs are not copyrighted but are in the public domain. That means everyone if free to publish them on line, download the large files from the Library of Congress, print them, sell them or whatever one wants to do with them. They are public domain as they belong to the US government because Ansel Adams was a government contractor at this time, similar to the FSA photos of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and their contemporaries. Of course Ansel Adams private work is copyrighted.
A complete selection of his interment camp photos can be found at the Library of Congress website.
A complete selection of his interment camp photos can be found at the Library of Congress website.
harpofreely
Well-known
Always loved this one, myself:
Steevo
Established
Adams was a Modernist
Adams was a Modernist
Greetings All,
About 2-3 years ago I saw an exhibition of prints created by Adams' own hands in South Central Michigan...Jackson, I think. They showed some of his iconic images, but they also showed some of his portraits, still lifes, and genre shots. I was pleasantly surprised that in a good percentage of the prints shown, he was clearly a "Modernist". He photographed things with fresh perspectives and framing that would have been in keeping with "modernist" aesthetic. Like Weston, Adams is known for his passion for photography, his technical skill, ground breaking pursuit of their own vision....but, they also had to pay the bills and photograph more mundane subjects as well.
Cheers.
Adams was a Modernist
Greetings All,
About 2-3 years ago I saw an exhibition of prints created by Adams' own hands in South Central Michigan...Jackson, I think. They showed some of his iconic images, but they also showed some of his portraits, still lifes, and genre shots. I was pleasantly surprised that in a good percentage of the prints shown, he was clearly a "Modernist". He photographed things with fresh perspectives and framing that would have been in keeping with "modernist" aesthetic. Like Weston, Adams is known for his passion for photography, his technical skill, ground breaking pursuit of their own vision....but, they also had to pay the bills and photograph more mundane subjects as well.
Cheers.
Steve Bellayr
Veteran
AA's photos make the camp look like a summer vacation or at least the ones that were posted. C-B in the 1930's stated of AA to the effect: That the world is falling apart and AA is taking pictures of rocks and trees.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Adams wasn't photographing Auschwitz. The Japanese in the US internment camps were not killed, tortured, or starved. They were treated reasonably well. The injustice came from the fact that they were deprived of their freedom simply because of their race. What, exactly, did you expect Adams to show of the place?
charjohncarter
Veteran
The world did fall apart, but I've known people that were in these camps; and although morally it was reprehensible, they felt they were not treated badly and really wanted for nothing that they didn't have before. The only exception, of course, was freedom of movement.
But it really didn't stop there, one of my friends (older than I) was not able to volunteer for the US Navy because he was married to a first generation Italian-American.
Sal Santamaura
Member
Roger, thank you. It seems I'm not the only one who's disturbed by widespread misuse of words, even/especially by those in the media. Not to diminish the importance of other things you've written in this thread, I think that correction was your most valuable input.
Please take every opportunity to make more such corrections in the future. Not just media (plural) / medium (singular), but data (plural) / datum (singular), etc.
