on YouTube -- 1983 “Master Photographers” 4 part interview with Ansel Adams where he so eloquently and clearly states how important pre-visualization and “intentional manipulation” is to his work.
Pay special attention to Part II of this series containing the following quotes:
At 50 sec:“None of my images are realistic in terms of values… it’s intentional manipulation”
At 4 min:“The negative is the composer’s score, all the information is there. The print is the performance, so you interpret the score at various aesthetic emotional levels, but never far enough away dividing the original concept.”
Regarding the digital revolution that he recognized as being on the horizon…
At 7 min:“The thing that excites me is that in not too many years we’re going to have a entirely new medium of expression with the electronic image. I’ve seen what can happen to a print reproduced by the laser scanner and how that is enhanced and that is just the beginning. … and I know the potential is there and I know its going to be wonderful. Well in that sense the negatives for these photographs as an example will take the place of a fresh kabal they are….personal or some early composer will then be reinterpreted through a fresh medium and I think that is marvelous.”
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZND3eczqoIA
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWhQGU2RYuM&feature=related
part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7b6bH1gmmk&feature=related
part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPsLx8aL8k&feature=related
This was all taken from
Is Digital Post-Production Killing Photography? Debunking the Purist MythRead more: http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2010/05/06/is-digital-post-production-killing-photography-debunking-the-purist-myth/#ixzz0nsfopfz5
which you can read here...
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