[LargeFormat] Landscape Masters!!

[tripspud]

Hi Kent!

     The original photos are antique works of art by the hand of masters.
Of course they are the most expensive and rarest.  Both
Weston and Adams worked primarily in the same locale, with equipment,
the view camera, once the only type of camera, but at the time
mostly a professional portrait and illustration camera.

    Also, these two masters, more than any others, perhaps, are the
inspiration for the both the pyro/amidol intuition method and the
zone system of technic.

Cheers,

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net

Kent Gibbs wrote:

> I have a question for the group.
>
> What makes landscapes from one photographer more valuable than those
> from another photographer?
>
> Subject matter, new way of looking at the same subjects, same way of
> looking at the same subjects but greater technical skill, marketing of
> the photographs/photographer?
>
> I admire the work of Adams and Weston and many others, but is it
> because they were that good or is it that they were that novel?
>
> I have seen some photos taken by these 'Masters' that would qualify
> more as snapshots without any clear subject, but they are still
> outrageously priced.
>
> So what makes them so valuable?
>
> Curiously
>
> Kent M. Gibbs
>
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