Ansel, I'm not the sun, stop orbiting and get in here.
Ansel, I'm not the sun, stop orbiting and get in here.
Ansel taught a workshop in Yosemite which I happened to attend. We talked. He suggested I come work for him after I finished school. Ansel was then in his 80s. I was his photographic assistant until his death in 1984, after which I worked with his friend Mary Alinder on Ansel's biography. The entire experience was very much a privilege.
When you look at a good Ansel Adams photograph, you think you know the temperature, the relative humidity, the month.
So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
If you can't afford Ansel Adams, you can find really wonderful, original art for 1,500, 2,000.
These astoundingly beautiful photographs give a rounded portrait of Ansel Adams the person - as artist, author, teacher and spokesperson for photography,
When you can take the chairlift up and can see the three Ansel Adams peaks, it's just majestic. ... The crowd at Targhee is always up for different types of music. I enjoy it as a listener, too.
It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to go out and see it for curiosity's sake.
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