It seems not an online discussion thread about large format photography can go by without invoking Their Holinesses, Ansel Adams or Edward Weston. Great photographers, both, who made significant contributions and had significant influence. But they’re not saints or gods, and the inevitable, genuflecting references and predictable ensuing debates tend to make the conversations essentially [...]
Continue reading...Gerard Van der Leun writes: "I’ve stumbled across an obscure trove of about 189 photographs by Ansel Adams of the streets of Los Angeles, out-takes from an assignment he did for Fortune Magazine in 1941. I’ve made a set of about 90 cleaned up images at: Ansel Adams’ Lost Los Angeles Found – a photoset [...]
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