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...ANSEL ADAMS: IMAGES...
Foreword by Wallace Stegner. 127 pages. New York Graphic Society. $65. Magnificent examples of the reverential grandeur in Ansel Adams' photographic art, reproduced under the perfectionist eye of Adams himself. At the age of 72 he is the pre-eminent black-and-white photographer of the American West. Adams' sweeping vistas of Yosemite and the Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there...
American museums, especially, have been interested in the "more imaginative" masters of the medium, beginning with Edward Steichen, proceeding through the epic or intimist nature poets (Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams) and finishing in an exponential growth of different styles in the '70s -Duane Michals' enigmatic fumetti, Paul Caponigro's monumental landscapes, and Jerry Uelsmann's surrealist montages. Meanwhile, LIFE and Look were the showcases for the documentary photographs: the picture magazines were their museum without walls, and it is now pitifully shrunk. To present the documentary photographer to a "serious" audience, an audacious venture...
...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...
...Paul Strand, she did a series of intense studies of plants, and even these are portraits. She bears down on a single bud or stalk and reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing at the air in the style of a barnstorming evangelist. Judy Dater--another photographer--glances down with daydreaming eyes and a half smile as she stretches out her long black hair with her fingers...