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American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams once said, "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." He didn't say anything about robots. But Adams, who died in 1984, could not have anticipated a new device from Sony designed to replace human shutterbugs by making its own decisions about when to take a photo...
...Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, as something we can barely conceive of in color. He almost made us believe that the whole of creation comes in the palette of a cinder block - and to be glad about it. (See 10 things you didn't know about national parks...
There would be no book of exactly the kind Adams had in mind. But nine years after his death, a good number of his color pictures were published for the first time in Ansel Adams in Color, in a selection chosen by another great photographer, Harry Callahan. This year the book is being reissued with 20 additional pictures that have never been published before. (See pictures from Ansel Adams in Color...
...harsh contrast in black-and-white pictures, he disliked strident color. What he was after were tones, colors you can't put a name to, indeterminate registers that shift in the retina and brain. Even his sunsets were powder-puff pink. (Read "The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams...
...TIME's 1979 cover on Ansel Adams...