that imaginative
quality is expected from
any form of art
For me, a photograph begins as the visualization of the image which represents the excitement and the perception of that moment and situation.
The print represents excitement, perception, and expression (performance).
Meaning is found in the final print and only in terms of the print itself.
For me, this meaning may vary a little over time and circumstance.
For the viewer, the meaning of the print is his meaning.
If I try to impose mine by intruding descriptive titles, I insult the viewer, the print, and myself.
From The Autobiography of Ansel Adams by Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1985.
As I understand it, from the writings of Ansel Adams, Mr. Adams could visualize the print he could make from a photograph of something in front of him.
The process was to capture the scene on a negative and then create the image in his mind through the print.
And once Mr. Adams got into the darkroom, he began to paint with light or so says one of his assistants.
He said something along the line of that the negative was the score and the print was the music.
While I miss my darkroom days, I am not sure I miss it so much CT with what can be done today … and I would enjoy seeing what Mr. Adams could do with his images.
It is still the person who begins the visualization of an image in much the same way you might say it is the cook, not the kitchen.
When Artificial Intelligence can begin as the visualization of the image which represents the excitement and the perception of that moment and situation, call me
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