tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25095032.post5544338472492849997..comments2023-04-30T04:57:01.885-05:00Comments on Pitchertakin': SNAPSHOTS, ADAMS STYLEpitchertakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714720069598091235noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25095032.post-54424134146776128792007-02-17T16:10:00.000-06:002007-02-17T16:10:00.000-06:00Frankers. WTF. People can't comment on your blog...Frankers. WTF. People can't comment on your blog if you don't tell them about it!!!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I have been meaning to email you cause I miss your face around school! <BR/><BR/>This is a great post. I will try to head up there and see it. I loved the Warhol exhibit there a few years ago, and it would be fun to see Ansel Adams' snappers.Bridgiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03727355158960738425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25095032.post-43492381259438668012007-02-14T17:39:00.000-06:002007-02-14T17:39:00.000-06:00In the 20's, 30's, 40's and probably into the 50's...In the 20's, 30's, 40's and probably into the 50's, making photograph, snapshots if you prefer, were considered a luxury. At least in my family. It wasn't cheap to own a camera, and take you exposed film to the local drug store, or to the local portrait studtio for processing. Almost always they were contact prints with fancy borders. Seems to me that the quality of image began with the advent of the inexpensive camera and processing. It is both admiral and desirable to assign yourself a goal of making images that our grand parents would have made.<BR/>Pitchertakerpitchertakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714720069598091235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25095032.post-9058648066351526552007-02-14T10:36:00.000-06:002007-02-14T10:36:00.000-06:00We have lost the sensibilty of snapshots that exis...We have lost the sensibilty of snapshots that existed decades ago. The ease and economy of photography in the 1970s until now generated a flood of pictures that seem to be meaningless compared to the snapshots I see in my grandparents albums. Those images despite their size were treated respectfully in shooting and presentation.<BR/><BR/>It is a personal goal to become a snapshot shooter in classical form....<BR/><BR/>Great post Frank.<BR/><BR/>Steve Williams<BR/><A HREF="http://vespalx150.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Scooter in the Sticks</A>Steve Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04540977884513559091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25095032.post-82810652304011606662007-02-12T09:30:00.000-06:002007-02-12T09:30:00.000-06:00Probably most of them are glued (literally) into s...Probably most of them are glued (literally) into some of photo album's rotting paper, and the people who have them haven't a clue to what they have. Stephen tells the story of guy on the Vineyard that has a framed original signed Weston stuffed away in the closes where he keeps the stuff from his mother's estate. When told what he had, he said, "Who? What? So what!" That print is probably worth $100K.<BR/>Pitchertakerpitchertakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714720069598091235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25095032.post-5266641334102022782007-02-12T08:41:00.000-06:002007-02-12T08:41:00.000-06:00Oh, I'd love to see Adams snapshots. And you know ...Oh, I'd love to see Adams snapshots. And you know what else I'd like to see, I'd like to see a show of portraits that Weston did to make a living. Not just a few he did of friends but from his "day job." Just curious. I wonder how many of them still are around.Billie Mercerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17826454938577230499noreply@blogger.com