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…
“Lost” Adams Plates – a brief update from my point of view. My last newsletter of July 27 stressed that those of us close to Ansel did not believe the work was his. In the ensuing time significant issues have come to light suggesting the work is really that of a Fresno, California photographer named…
New Masking Workshops
Missing AA plates
Ever since I was back at Ansel’s in the late ’70’s, I had been faithfully calibrating my high values at Zone VIII, targeting a density of about 1.25 above filmbase-fog. Since 2004 or so, however, I’ve been thinking more and more that it makes more sense to calibrate to Zone IX, with a target density…
Assisting Ansel….the First Week
Thirty-seven years ago today marks the end of my first week as Ansel’s full-time assistant. What a week! It started as I drove my car up a wooded road in Carmel, parked under the pines, and walked apprehensively up to the front door. My knock was greeted by a beaming smile and a “How ya…
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