Comments on: [Pictures] Ansel Adams Takes On Los Angeles For Fortune Magazine

By: jocrosse

jocrosse — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Many of these images included Cole Weston and young bride Dorothy Herrmann. Cole gave up a promising career in the theater and Dorothy turned down an offer to join Martha Graham’s dance company to come to L.A. and work in the high-paying aviation industry just prior to WWII. See more at my “Schindlers-Westons-Kasheravoff-Cage and Their Avant-Garde Relationships” at:
http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/2012/02/schindlers-westons-kasheravoff-cage.html

By: topaz

topaz — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:26:00 +0000

Your quoted section above came from the excellent Flavorpill Los Angeles blog. Shouldn’t you give Flavorpill their due? I recognized these words from Marina Galperina’s writeup of this show:

http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2012/2/18/ansel-adams-los-angeles

By: Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:26:00 +0000

What is the guy in the 5th picture doing with an iPad?

By: Edgar Varela

Edgar Varela — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:43:00 +0000

I got a sneak preview of the prints, WOW, these online scans are very bad compared to the silver gelatin prints created by the master printer, the prints are stunning. 60 of the over 200 are being printed for the exhibition.

By: Tim Krueger

Tim Krueger — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:40:00 +0000

@twitter-83698532:disqus agreed!

By: kenton anderson

kenton anderson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000

it’s kind of refreshing to see that not every picture he took was amazing. Some of them are very good, but they are by no means equal to his greatest works. I think we get used to seeing the best work of photographers that we sometimes think every picture is amazing, but in reality everyone is human

By: Thomas Ingersoll

Thomas Ingersoll — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:05:00 +0000

i think for his time they are pretty great…. i mean for today’s standards nothing really amazing but its like comparing sports athletes from different eras,you just cant do it. also i mean if he didn’t like these shots maybe he wasn’t to inspired or interested in the subject matter and didn’t put in 100% so the pictures aren’t from the heart.

By: Eric Gould

Eric Gould — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:19:00 +0000

I think the crooked part is perhaps these were hand held. Also Adams was a student of landscape – studying the environment and searching for best time of day or time of year. Clearly he did not know LA like he did Yosemite. These seem rushed both in terms of composition and lighting (time of day). I going to push it further and say that these have none of his classic attention to postposing of creating the “print”. I’m guessing if he had a digital back these never would have made the cut. Regardless, Adams could kick my butt any day of the week. The man was a genius.

By: Ghislain Leduc

Ghislain Leduc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:00 +0000

To me they are good pictures. They report something, I really like the last 2, the Derrick pictures is quite amazing and I love the 3 man sitting and talking on a bench. great one.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:02:00 +0000

I agree on the crooked part, and I can understand where Mr. Adams is coming from. Landscapes are what he do best and loves to do. I wouldn’t have known that these are his pictures. They certainly don’t look like Ansel Adams photos.