California Modern
 

 
Ansel Adams. Oak Tree, Snowstorm. 1948.

Learning Community #4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group f/64
1932 - 1935

 

Edward Weston. Ranch, Old Big Sur Road. 1935.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weston with camera. 1937.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/images/2008/01/02/edward_weston_1937_0329_lat.jpg

view from a view camera
http://web.mit.edu/kmh2011/Public/ARTalk/Biyeun/camera_dome.jpg

View camera
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/View_camera.png

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banana Plant

Imogen Cunningham.  Banana Plant.  c. 1929.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Group f/64 approach:
 
Sought greatest depth of field with smallest lens aperture
Sharp focus
Close-up views
Large-view format camera
Contact printing rather than enlarging
Ansel Adams. Rose on Driftwood. 1933.
http://pedroramos1992.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/rose-and-driftwood1.jpg
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Weston
1886 -1958

 

Edward Weston. Excusado. 1925.
http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc8/m197400610064_ful.html

 

Weston described this photo as revealing "the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Weston. Nude. 1936.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pepper #30

Edward Weston. Pepper #30. 1930.
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/kuvataide/albums/album02/pepper.jpg

"I could wait no longer to print them - my new peppers, so I put aside several orders, and yesterday afternoon had an exciting time with seven new negatives.

First I printed my favorite, the one made last Saturday, just as the light was failing - quickly made, but with a week's previous effort back of my immediate, unhesitating decision. A week?  Yes, on this certain pepper, but twenty-eight years of effort, starting with a youth on a farm in Michigan, armed with a no. 2 Bull's Eye [Kodak] have gone into the making of this pepper, which I consider a peak of acheivement.

It is a classic, completely satisfying - a pepper - but more than a pepper: abstract, in that it is completely outside subject matter... this new pepper takes one beyond the world we know in the conscious mind."

- Edward Weston from his Daybook 1930

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

previsualiztion = ability to see one's finished print before exposure
Nude
Edward Weston. Nude. 1926.
http://ryanplatt.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/weston_nude.jpg
Edward Weston. Cabbage Leaf. 1931.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ansel Adams
1902 -1984

 

Ansel Adams.  Valley View, Yosemite.  c. 1933.
http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/March2004/paintWEB/0701.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ansel Adams.  Monolith, the Face of Half Dome.  1926.
http://www.valpo.edu/artmuseum/adams.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zabriskie Point

Ansel Adams. Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Monument, California. 1948.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ansel Adams.Snow Covered Mountains. 1940s.
http://jeffbean.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ansel_adams_mountains.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zone System = aide for determining
correct exposure and development times

Imogen Cunningham.  The Unmade Bed.  1957.
http://caraphillips.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/theunmadebed.jpg
11 different zones
Zone O = maximum black
Zone X = pure white