Photo Chat WIth Alan Ross – June 19th, 2024 at 2 PM (EST)
We are pleased to announce that Alan Ross will be our guest on June 19th at 2 PM (EST). Holger Mischke, Jeff Schewe, and John Corncello will host this photo chat. Kevin Raber will be traveling and running 2 workshops in the Palouse.
This will be an opportunity to not only see some of Allan’s beautiful images but also hear his stories and experience, especially working with Ansel Adams. You don’t want to miss this Photo Chat.
Alan Ross is an internationally respected master photographer and educator who worked side-by-side with Ansel Adams as his photographic assistant. He knows Adams’ approach and technique perhaps better than any other photographer today.
As an artist, Alan is best known for his tonally exquisite black-and-white photographs of the American west; his photographs hang in collections and galleries around the world.
As a photographic educator, he specializes in helping photographers at any level, and using all formats and styles, realize and express their photographic vision.
Alan lives in visually captivating Santa Fe, where he pursues his own work, teaches one-on-one workshops in the art of seeing and master printing, and writes articles and blogs sharing his vast knowledge of the art and craft of photography.
He also continues to be the exclusive printer of the Yosemite Special Edition negatives, an assignment Adams selected him for personally in 1975. Alan uses traditional darkroom techniques to make each print by hand from Adams’ original negatives.
You can visit Alan’s website HERE.
You Must Register To Be Part Of This Photo Chat. The registration link is below.
Alan And Ansel
I think Ansel was probably one of the most even-tempered people I have ever met. Though always a hard worker he was also a jokester at heart.
He knew he had become an important figure in environmental and photographic causes, and he constantly put this stature to good use. Very often, by the time I got to work at 9am, he might already have written three letters to senators or congressmen, made phone calls to his publisher, business manager and Polaroid, clacked-out a couple of pages of memos on his typewriter AND got a new negative set up in the darkroom.
Always intertwined with the work was his sense of mirth – terrible jokes and puns, often told for the sixth or seventh time, which never failed to give rise to his own infectious and mountainous laugh, eliciting groans and grins from all within range.
I don’t believe I ever saw him gloomy or morose, and the rare instances of anger were matters of principle – personal integrity, the environment and politics. He took himself and his work seriously but had, and never lost, an ability to laugh at himself. What a wonderful man to be around – never a dull moment, never a gloomy day.
When I first went to work as Ansel’s assistant, one of the things that struck me the most was the realization, while going through boxes and boxes of his work, that he had made an awful lot of very ordinary photographs! I was somewhat stunned to learn that he had no illusions and no expectations that every film he exposed would wind up being another one of what he fondly called his “Mona Lisas.”
As an awe-struck young photographer in the presence of The Master, this revelation was an incredible relief to me; it came as a release from the burden of expecting myself to produce only perfection. It was better to experiment and try things that might work, and openly and simply respond to feelings than to over intellectualize. In fact I soon came to learn that one of Ansel’s favorite phrases was “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good!”
Registration
You must register for this Photo Chat, and you can do so by CLICKING HERE. Fill in the fields, and you will then receive an email confirmation with the link to access the Photo Chat. The Photo Chat will be recorded and available to view on this site approximately a week after the program.
Kevin Raber
June 2024
Kevin Raber
Indianapolis, IN
Photography is my passion and has been for 50 plus years. My career in photography has allowed me to travel the world, meet some of the most interesting people on the planet and see things I could never have dreamed of. My goal is to share the passion of picture taking through photographs and teaching with as many people as I can, hoping it brings them as much joy and happiness as it has me. I do this through photoPXL.com, this site, as well as Rockhopper Workshops, and other projects, as well as teaching as Artist In Residence at the Indianapolis Art Center.
