Chris - I am talking off the top of my head - but you may looking into early Ansel Adams in the 30's when he was a correspondent with Stieglitz - who may have also given him a show and, some now say, a serious artist, rather than the falling off in his later work. This period is discussed in a new catalog from the O'Keefe Museum for a traveling show based on the period in the 30's in which Adams was in New Mexico with O'Keefe making photographs, many of the same sites that she painted.
Stephen, who is soon off to the upper-zones of Mt. Whitney for that meeting with Doug Barbour. Great to hear, Doug, that you plan to give the group a read from Rilke. What could be more pure? Rilke at 14,000 feet. If Angels appear I will have my butterfly catching net on the ready, and an Angel Delivery box in my pack. I hear that the stronger angels can give us an aerial lift back down to the parking lot. In that case, I will give up the box.
--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Photography, affects and cybernetics
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Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 3:41 AM
I have become fascinated by a connection the Zone System of Ansel Adams,
Minor White and the f64 group of photographers have as an aesthetics
what could be termed cybernetic culture. This also connects with Silvan
Tomkins 8 innate affects as the innate 8 zones of the f64 photographers.
By cybernetic culture I can also connect this to the PhDs that came out
of the Cybernetic and Culture Research Unit at Warwick in the 90s. The
dates also fit in, given Ansel Adams, The Negative, was published first
in 1948.
I should perhaps write fully more on this? Anyways, others here may be
interested, best Chris Jones.
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