Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was a photographer who was active in the mid 20th century. He was known for his epic landscapes of the American West, usually done in black and white.
He wrote a book, called The Negative, in which he gave advice on how to use his Zone system to take good photographs.
Quotes[edit]
- "It is important to realize that the expressive photograph (the "creative" photograph) or the informational photograph does not have directly proportional relationship to what we call reality. We do not perceive certain values in the subject and attempt to duplicate them in the print. We may simulate them, if we wish to, in terms of reflection density values, or we may render them in related values of emotional effect. Many consider my photographs to be in the "realistic" category. Actually, what reality they have is in their optical-image accuracy; their values are definitely "departures from reality." The viewer may accept them as realistic because the visual effect may be plausible, but if it were possible to make direct visual comparison with the subjects, the differences would be startling."[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ Adams, Ansel. The Negative. Introduction, p. ix. Little, Brown and Company. 1997.