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...Ansel and the Duke...
...German consul for cultural relations in San Francisco in 1968, I asked Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] if he would like to make an artistic tour of West Germany as a guest of the federal government. His answer was remarkable and convincing: "I have never left the U.S. except for a glimpse over the Mexican and Canadian fences. I have done that only because the nature, the landscape is the same on both sides of the frontier. I am afraid to visit Europe, to see all your ancient towns, all your fairy-tale castles because, as I understand, all the landscape...
...curious that my friend Henri Cartier-Bresson should assail my friend Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] for "doing pictures of rocks" instead of being socially committed while "the world is falling to pieces." Except for a couple of chilling end-of-the-war shots of Nazi collaborators being interrogated in his homeland, and poignant images of quilted Chinese peasants playing mah-jongg during the fall/liberation of Nationalist Peking, not a single Cartier-Bresson photograph comes to mind about any of the world's miseries covered by other, often less gifted but more involved photographers...
...picture is worth a thousand words, Ansel Adams' photographs [Sept. 3] open up a boundless vocabulary...
When I saw Ansel Adams on the cover, I was elated. I stopped on the way back to the house from the mailbox and took an especially long look at the Blue Ridge Mountains near my home...