Ansel Adams, the zone system and the California School of Fine Arts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14694222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ira H Latour (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-154 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-7298 • E-ISSN: 2150-7295 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03087298.1998.10443870 |
| OpenAlex | W1992150603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Very late in life, Ansel Adams presented the two basic principles fundamental to his concept of photographic ‘visualization’, the envisioning of the final print prior to the exposure of the film. The first, ‘image management’, the initial step of the visualization process, related to ‘point of view and the optical and camera-adjustment control of the image up to the moment of exposure’. The second, ‘value management’, related to exposure and development of the negative, ‘the score’, as he called it. This precisely controlled negative provided ‘information for the expressive print’, again in musical terms, ‘the performance’. This second principle is better known as the Zone System. These two principles make a concise, symmetrical and quite beautiful exposition of his concept of visualization. But it took a lifetime for Ansel to achieve this simplicity.1
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Musical · Simplicity · The arts · Visual arts · Visualization · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |