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<x-flowed>Jerry, Look again, he certainly did in some cases! And remember he made his bucks as a commercial photographer well into his "mature years." His "art" work didn't really sell until the big boom in photography hit the auction houses-- very late in the '70's. Until then Best's in Yosemite was a nice hobby outlet. At least the postcards moved... For an artist of any lasting stature I'm not especially impressed when lines are drawn between "commercial" and "artistic" in any case. Consider Avedon, Annie Liebovitz, and many many others. There are numerous examples in Adams' work of photographs originally made in the course of commercial assignments that later found their way into his "portfolios." One, of an egg slicer and other kitchen gear, is very striking. Bob >Bob, this was the period in which Ansel was doing Commercial >photography. (Yes, he actually did commercial photography for a little >while!) But his fine art prints were not printed on ferrotyped papers. > >Jerry > >Bob Tyson wrote: >> >> >Andrew, I'm sure the Ansel print was on "Air Dried" fiber base glossy >> >paper. Ansel would never have printed on true glossy paper (ferrotyped) >> >for his fine art prints. >> >> At certain points in his career, Adams did produce ferrotyped glossy >> prints. His artistic lineage goes to Weston and especially Strand, >> who (according to legend) was the prince who was kissed by the frog >> of the sharp-focus, neutral-black image on silver paper and forever >> abandoned soft, hazy imagery on "art" papers, i.e. platinum/palladium >> and so on... >> >> Bob >> >> (Whose fine-art prints are pd/pt contact prints: >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~bobicho/bperspho.html --and who is dogged >> in mimicking the tactility and general feel of those prints in >> ink-jet prints.) >> - >> Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate >> subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. >- >Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate >subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. </x-flowed>
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