Ansel Adams at 100 - NYTimes article

[Erik Eks]

An sel Admas at 100

Comments?

[Erik Eks]

I'm sorry. I messed up the HTML. Here it is again:

Ansel Adams at 100

Comments?

[Tom Raymondson]

If you've only seen the posters and the books you should take this or any opportunity to see his prints. Amazing.

[Mark Minard]

Hi,

I happened to see the book at Borders last week... The prints look green to me. My wife agreed, and she's not nearly as picky as I am. Even Monnrise has a greenish hue to it. It's a real shame, because it is a beautiful book, and I wanted to buy it. Now I'm not sure. Anyone else here see the book??

[Mark Minard]

sorry - Moonrise not "Monrise"

[scott jones]

Thanks for the hot tip. Not only did I learn about New York Times on line and read the interesting article, but also found that the show runs from August to January in San Francisco, just a hop, skip, and jump from where I live in Portland, Or. My family will travel to SF to get a chance to see AA's more unusual and less iconic photographs. Thanks for posting this information!

[Kevin Crisp]

I'm not defending the printing of a book I haven't seen, but just so you know sometimes Adams real prints do look a big greenish. I was at the gallery in Yosemite about 9 years ago and a big print of Mt. Williamson (boulders in foreground) was on display and it had what could only be described as an olive tone to it. If you looked at just that print it wasn't obvious, but if you looked at others with neutral tones it was hard to miss by comparison.

[Mark Minard]

Hi Kevin,

I agree... I've mostly seen it in his older work, though. Just last week I saw the AA show at the Eastman House in Rochester, and most of his better known work - Mt. Williamson, Moonrise, Clearing Winter Storm, ETC. represented in this particular collection were printed about 1960, and they all were neutral in tone and absolutely beautiful. I need to take another look at the book, I think. Let me know what you think after you see it.

[Ellis Vener]

It is interesting that they are getting away from Ansel'smarketing guru's "greatest hits collection".

[Erik Eks]

What I find intriguing in the article is the comparison of Adam's prints done thrity apart. It is interesting to note that early Adam's prints were a lot lighter in tone and not as contrasty. Later, as John Swarzkorski (sp?) posits, his prints were more Sturm und Drang, to appeal to the buying public.

For those of us who have held the familiar and widely seen later Adam's prints ('overwrought' as the writer puts it) as the gold-standard of print excellence, will this insight cause you to revise your printing methods and rethink your printing process?