I tend to disagree that these are particularly interesting, aside from the subject matter. If you look at the really good people shooters with the FSA, I think you'll find more **photographically** interesting shots than anything Adams made at the internment camp (although Adams was probably right about one thing: they're an important historical document.) I've also seen, from time to time, efforts to sell Adams' color work. Those efforts also tend to be somewhat unsuccessful, because, honestly, I don't think he did that well with color. His best B&W landscape work, though, seems almost untouchable. He has a quote about being in a place when God wanted a photograph taken, and that's about it. You have to be there when God wants you to be, ready to take a picture. There are many, many really terrific landscape artists who go out and take perfectly exposed shots that are brilliantly printed, but God didn't care about that particular shot, so it looks like something on a General Mills calendar. Even Adams didn't score that often -- from his whole career, he has maybe a dozen widely acclaimed master works, and that must be from tens of thousands of shots...IMHO, they don't include the internment photos.
JC
