That's a good way of showing Moonrise - or any other image that a master
printer like Ansel revisits at different times. Mary Alinder's excellent
bio of Ansel discusses his later printing (when she worked for him) as being
darker & richer than his earlier printing. If I remember correctly., his
eyesight had clouded somewhat and he'd sometimes go for too much "drama" or
over-tone a full day's work and have to redo it. Those are among the very
few stories where Ansel comes across as grumpy when he had to be convinced a
batch of prints weren't good.



Bob G



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Subject: [Digital BW] Ansel Adams in San Diego








There is an interesting Ansel Adams exhibit at the San Diego museum of
photography. What made it really worthwhile for me was the side-by-side
exhibition of multiple prints of Moonrise, Hernandez. The three prints
showed the relatively subtle changes Adams made to get to the print he
wanted. The exhibit also contains a replica of the negative and a photo of
Ansel between a "straight print" of moonrise and the final print.

There are a couple of other comparisons of prints of the same negative that
are interesting.

Steve

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