>>3798678>did it firstmy little nublet, Ansel Adams was far from the first landscape photographer. He was second, maybe even third wave. His work was revisiting the landscape photography of the 1800's and using modern technique to reframe it with more clarity and bravado technique.
For the rest of you nublets, Ansel Adams is overrated by mid IQ's, newbies and sophomores alike. As you do more digging into his questionable relationship with John Szarkowski and his crusade against the Pictorialists, his stature starts to diminish. He is a pioneering technician and world-class teacher, and even a half-decent naturalist (though it would have been more meaningful for him to include the impact of man, rather than omit it altogether), but he is far from the Michael Goddamned Jordan of photography.
