Ansel Adams in Color

Church, Sunrise, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1948
In a 1962 essay describing his efforts in color, Adams noted the irony of our perceptions about the two media.
Ansel Adams

Church, Sunrise, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1948
In a 1962 essay describing his efforts in color, Adams noted the irony of our perceptions about the two media. "There is little or no 'reality' in the blacks, grays and whites of either the informational or expressive black-and-white image," he wrote, "and yet we have learned to interpret these values as meaningful and 'real.'"

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