Word: ansell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first photography course cost 15 dollars at the International Correspondence school in Scranton, Pa. But her associates would come to include such major photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. Hilton Kramer of the New York Times says that "Like Paul Strand's, her work has a double claim on our attention. It belongs to history and at the same time it is part of the contemporary scene. On both counts, it is of exceptional interest." In the past year, Imogen Cunningham has had one-woman shows at both the Metropolitan Museum and New York's prestigious Witkin...
...American photography, Ansel Adams is the Old Man of the Mountain: a grizzle-bearded septuagenarian, wrinkled and piercing of eye, toting his tripod through the redwoods. It was almost 60 years ago that Adams, a teenage music student from San Francisco, took a box Brownie with him on a vacation in the Yosemite Valley and started clicking away at its prodigious crags. Since then he has become one of the most respected photographers and teachers in America, laden with honors and pursued by collectors. (His own selection of his work, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, will...
...Northern California and the Southwest as his own, by territorial right of imagery. His pictures include some of the grand cliches of modern American photography, but they are cliches Adams has a prescriptive right to, since he invented them. What Edward Weston did for driftwood and bell peppers Ansel Adams did for mountains, rivers and rocks: recording them with a grave and highly deliberate formal density, he gave their images an extraordinary presence that hovers at the edge of abstraction. In the process he became the last practitioner of a 19th century mode-epic landscape...
...director of the museum's photography department. There is, naturally, a wide choice of subject. The pictures were taken over a period extending roughly from 1850 to the present; the photographers include the likes of Pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson, Brassa'i, Robert Doisneau, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon. Szarkowski's pic-ture-by-picture text ranges from brilliant and supple observations to what can fairly be described as academic twaddle. People who take photography seriously will want the book because, even at his worst, Szarkowski takes photography very seriously indeed. $14.95 AND UNDER...
...been talking to himself at the typewriter for 25 years-mostly in Anchorage, Alaska. By all conceivable point systems, Confessions of a Future Scotsman must win the Most Mature First Novel award for 1973. Reb is 48, and he has lived out quite an apprenticeship: he studied photography with Ansel Adams; he prospected (long and unsuccessfully); and he filled a trunk "with ten to fifteen books half written, quarter written, or firmly in mind." Surely he has earned the right to say a man is what he makes himself? Instead he says pretty much the opposite: that a man does...