I had never seen any of these photographs before.
http://www.retronaut.com/2013/08/lif...y-ansel-adams/
I'm sure there are many more assignments like this.
I had never seen any of these photographs before.
http://www.retronaut.com/2013/08/lif...y-ansel-adams/
I'm sure there are many more assignments like this.
Cool! Thanks for the link
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
These were taken as part of an assignment from Fortune magazine but never used by the magazine. Adams apparently forgot about them and years later found them and donated them as well as other many other prints and negatives from the same assignment to a library.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
I believe that Ansel used Brett Weston as a model on this assignment. At the time Brett was working at a local aerospace plant.
Thoma
Looks like he used his mountain climbing skills to take photos from a roof...
Looks like he used his hasselblad?
Most likely a Rolleiflex or similar... the Hasselblad was not introduced until 1948 or so. And, of course, they are more proof that even the great photographic artists had to earn a living; I hope Fortune paid his full rate.
Is there proof that Ansel Adams actually did this work? Exposure, focus, lighting, even composition all seem a little off for Ansel Adams. Of course, someone at the library could have printed them, but still. Or maybe these are the rejects that ended up at the library somehow??
Sudek ambled across my mind one day and took his picture. Only he knows where it is.
David Vickery
Brings back memories. The second photo looks like a Shulte that we had in the early forties. My father was an auditor. He audited co-ops in many small towns. I was just a toddler at the time. In order to have the family with him he bought a 36-foot Shulte, which according to my mother it was the largest trailer on the road for that time.
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