For a college essay, one topic was to write about something that has influenced you (i.e. music, person, art, etc.) I thought about this for a while, and since I really want to go into photography I thought about a photograph or photographer that had inspired me. Automatically, I thought of Ansel Adams. His works are powerful and moving, and I've always loved them. The way he captures landscapes along with everyday objects is ingenues and innovative. The power behind a photgraph of just a tree branch is amazing. It's great. Just great.
-mr
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I loved AA when i was your age...then he became kind of cliche when i was in college...then the early 2000s there was a revival by the San Francisco museum community that essentially re-established him as a serious and influential photographer (not as the cliche people made him out to be). If you write on him, cite that re-newed interest to give your argument a bit of gravitas, so to speak.
But his work always, ALWAYS, made me stop for a moment and wonder. We have almost identical tastes: Okeefe, Adams, Warhol, etc. Uncanny.
I think there's an Andy Warhol exhibit somewhere near by, we were talking about going to see it in Art History.
We are going the day after Thnksgiving. We are Warhol nuts.
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