People often ask how I managed to land a job with the man who would become the most noted photographer of the 20th-century. Ansel always liked to say that “chance favors the prepared mind,” and maybe that’s what happened. Here’s the story…you can decide! After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1971, I had the good…
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE ANSEL ADAMS PUBLISHING RIGHTS TRUST, RICK NORSIGIAN AND PRS MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC REGARDING SETTLEMENT OF LITIGATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco and Los Angeles, California March 14, 2011 On August 23,2010, The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust filed a civil complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District…
GALLERIES Andrew Smith Gallery. Santa Fe, next to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Masterpieces of photography. Sun To Moon Gallery. Dallas Design District. Contemporary photographers, traditional color landscapes to gelatin silver, bromoil and platinum/palladium-over-gold-leaf prints. Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite. Contemporary photographers, Ansel Adams fine prints, workshops, books, posters and the Ansel Adams’ Special Edition Prints. Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco.…
Workshops, Instant Film, New Developer
While I was doing the research for a recent talk on Polaroid and Ansel Adams (in conjunction with a 900+ print exhibit of SX-70 images), I learned that SX-70 film is now being made by The Impossible Project in Holland. They are also making black-and white SX-70 film and have plans to bring back 8×10! You may…
Would Ansel Adams Shoot Digital?
There has been a lot of talk on the Internet lately about whether Ansel Adams would have embraced digital photography if he were alive today. From what I can tell, most everyone seems to think that he would be enjoying both “shooting digital” and HDR. Having been his full time photo assistant in Carmel from…
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