Thank you for posting this. I am an older guy, started in the film and darkroom days and am finding it more and more difficult to explain how in many ways, digital photography has short circuited much of what these guys worked so hard to achieve....or as Ansel Adams explained many times, (paraphrasing here) 'You don't take a photograph.....you make a photograph....' and Strand, Weston and so many others, really understood the limitations of their materials from lens choice, to film exposure, developing and finally the darkroom print. If you get a chance to see actual vintage prints of this era, it is something no app can replicate, at least to my old eyes.
Thank you for posting this. I am an older guy, started in the film and darkroom days and am finding it more and more difficult to explain how in many ways, digital photography has short circuited much of what these guys worked so hard to achieve....or as Ansel Adams explained many times, (paraphrasing here) 'You don't take a photograph.....you make a photograph....' and Strand, Weston and so many others, really understood the limitations of their materials from lens choice, to film exposure, developing and finally the darkroom print. If you get a chance to see actual vintage prints of this era, it is something no app can replicate, at least to my old eyes.
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Paul Strand. Excellent choice. One of my early influences and his vision still affects me to this day.