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Tom Phillips wrote: wrote: Adams is a pictorialist. Rather than messing with focus and difffusion, he messed with tones. It's the same thing. At least he knew it could be art. Pictorialism wasn't simply about soft focus. In fact, when Henry Peach Robinson heard negative and print tonality were sensitometerictly related to exposure and could be so controlled, he rejected photography all together as too scientific. Zone system is basic sensitometry, not pictorialism. Right you are!! Ironic someone so concerned about whether others practice a working knowledge of chemistry, physics and philosophy is so against someone who actually did the math, knew the chemistry, and had a working philosophy that others appreciated. "Jealousy"? I smell a rat Fink. -- LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 |
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