Awesome Ansel Adams

Photographer Ansel Adams dedicated all his life to landscape photography, and captured some amazing pictures. Largely he worked in black and white, and was sceptical of colour photography which arrived later.
Time magazine has put up a nice gallery on his colour work captured in a new book. Do check Ansel's pictures

Time magazine also put greying Ansel on its cover in 1979. You can see
Time Cover

The magazine paid its tribute to the master in an obit in 1984

To see Adam's black and white work, do check this slideslow


To know more about how and what shaped Adam's love for landscape photography, read his biography

Munkacsi's boys

An image shot by Hungarian photographer, Martin Munkacsi, inspired French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson to take up photography. Till then Cartier-Bresson was a trained painter. This was the picture that influenced Cartier-Bresson.

Their black naked bodies contrasting with the white surf of the water, the rhythm in their steps as they run into the water, the gentle splashes their feet make on the water, the abandon with which they run in, their slight shadows falling on the water...

Who indeed was Martin Munkacsi? Read this link about the man and his work www.forward.com/articles/15163/

The magic of black and white

What is it about black and white photographs that leave an impact that colour images would perhaps not? Is it that they are much closer to our sense of memory, the sepia past? These are some pictures I spotted on a photography website. What do you think?

Pablo Picasso

Mahatma Gandhi

Marlon Brando

Ingrid Bergman