Ansel Adams in Color

Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1948
In an article on color photography
Ansel Adams

Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1948
In an article on color photography for Image magazine, Adams observed another paradox: "Esthetically, subjects possessing the least obvious color seem to come through best, not only in simulation of reality, but in sheer beauty of color in image."

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