![]() ![]() My father lent me $48 to buy them, in 1929. We traveled all through Arizona and ended up in Santa Fe, where we originally bought eight Maria plates. He died in the fall of 1936, and we took it over. The photographer explained: "We often went down to the shop in Yosemite that belonged to Virginia's father. "The mind becomes automatically tuned to the level of light and judges everything by that balance." A pioneer in the technology, as well as the art, of photography, Adams frequently brought students of the Ansel Adams Workshops to his home to study and talk in the carefully perfected environment.ĭisplayed informally throughout the house was an extraordinary collection of Native American objects, which once included a fabled Maria Martinez black feather-motif dinner service. "It's a complicated theory of balance," he noted. When it was photographed in 1983, the house had not changed, only mellowed, since that day in 1965, but the once white walls were gray-a 20 percent color-saturated gray, the very critical tonal intensity the photographer felt preserved the integrity of the values in his photographs. "The next day the van came with 70,000 pounds of household goods, even though we had thrown away another 20,000!" "Everyone flew down from San Francisco," he said. After four years of construction-and the completion of Adams's personally designed darkroom-moving day came on May 25, 1965. ![]()
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