right tim, he seems very reticent too about the possiblity of his work making any change to the way that we are, and sees is more as an affirmation of life rather than an admonishon.
right tim, he seems very reticent too about the possiblity of his work making any change to the way that we are, and sees is more as an affirmation of life rather than an admonishon.
"We live in a largely visually illiterate society that does not appreciate established masters much less more conceptual artists like Robert Adams."
Well then I guess I fall in right along with them
"We live in a largely visually illiterate society that does not appreciate established masters much less more conceptual artists like Robert Adams."
I'd agree with Kirk on this, but opine that at the time people were ignoring the Ansel Adams/Georgia Okeefe exhibit, they would probably have spent more time in a room of Remingtons and Bierstadts. Today, they would walk out of the Robert Adams exhibit to spend time looking at Ansel Adams' work. Popular visual literacy seems to lag a few decades...
Regarding RA's technical capabilities, I think his prints are well-made and "perfectly adequate" for their purpose. I suspect he strove more for this than the grand-scale, tour-de-force print that shows off more what the photographer can do in the darkroom while getting in the way of whatever he might have been concerned about in the image.
As to global warming, I think it will be balance out by an impending nuclear winter, so everything will be just fine...
But Chris I presume you actually went in and looked at it and then decided that it was not your cup of tea and moved on to work which you appreciated. I am more talking about the people who don't even bother to really give something a look. If work doesn't scream intertainment at them they don't even see it.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
Help me learn to appreciate these
his printing is terrrrrrrible!!!!!!!!!!
More on the content later. Do you have permission to reproduce those?
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
"More on the content later. Do you have permission to reproduce those?"
I see no copyright notices on the sites these were downloaded from.Now onto that content
Ok buddy, if you insist I did run into this on the site just now, and feel the use of these lovely, meaningful technically excellent images fall under the catagory of "criticism" and "commentary"
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Reflecting on my previous comments, they were not intended to diminish the worth of Robert Adams' work. His message is not lost on me as I travel around this and neighboring countries. However, as Kirk suggests, it was not my cup of tea.
As to technique, I stand by my previous assessment although Mark makes a good point.
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