Word: lour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams' technique dazzles no less than his subject matter. Because of the limitations of the mechanical process of photography, what the eye sees can never be transposed exactly into film. To plan and to execute perfectly one image of dawn light, in anything approaching its natural subtlety, is a lour de force. To do so repeatedly and faultlessly in hundreds of photographs spanning three decades is a monumental achievement. To want to do it repeatedly and faultlessly for four decades is a monumental firmness of mind...