Thanks. Now I'll look forward to it.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/21/2010 3:18 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 10/21/2010 11:27 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Then I'll probably like the color book if it's landscape and
>> nature. The color photos I was referring to looked like quite
>> ordinary snapshots of people. Even the color wasn't very good but
>> that may have been the repro process.
>
> According to the book, Adams took over 3,500 color images, starting
> when Kodachrome was invented in the 30s. Kodak contracted with him to
> use their films as they developed them. He did other commercial work
> in color, as well as some photography for himself.
>
> He was never much of a portraitist, so I imagine the shots of people
> may have been, in effect, tests of color rendering of skin tones.
> I've recounted here before seeing a large series of his prints of a
> photo shoot for the Dominican College of San Rafael, CA. Beautiful
> exposure, tonalities, focus, etc. Uninspired, if workmanlike,
> compositions, and the people in them seem largely flat, lifeless.
>
> Reading some of his letters, I imagine looking at 8x10 Kodachromes on
> a light table, then at the crummy prints possible at the time - and
> being incredibly frustrated. He was a master at creating his vision
> of the subject on paper from a negative. But he had no control over
> the color printing process at all, and the results had none of the
> magic qualities of the transparencies.
>
> The reproductions in the book are quite another thing. Created with
> some sort of laser scanning process from the original transparencies,
> they are beautiful.
>
> Moose
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