I agree with those statements. I think Annie Libowitz is a total B!$&@ but other don't. When I was an assistant Photographers where dicks all the time. One of Tomoko's first question to me when we started dating was, " Do yo treat your assistance like shit?" I just smiled and laughed. She then said. Why are all photographers such a holes to their assistance? That answer was easy. They all suck at reading my mind.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don’t know them. Are they? It’s mostly kids behind who come along and cll us oldsters liars like you’re doing right here with me. Ansel was a good teacher if you stuck your pride in a sock and obeyed his directions. But he wasn’t perfectly nice all the time -- I’m not either as you already know.I see Ansel as a photographer who was at his best before 1950. He was a great publicist and promoted photography in general to sell his own reputation. I guess nobody you knew ever got promised a box of 55PN, huh? I’m still waiting and somehow I don’t think it’s coming.On Dec 26, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Randy Little wrote:So john and Willy are liars?
On Dec 26, 2013 5:41 PM, "Jan Faul" <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Dec 26, 2013, at 5:16 PM, visfxsup wrote:I might have when my father was at the workshops but I would have been between 5 and 8 when he was going every year. Im still going to trust willy and john about adams. I spent a lot of time with them. So between them and my father I am going to go with the gracious adams stories and not the jan version.Ansel was not a very nice guy to talented photographers coming along. I’m glad you’re happy with sugarcoating his memories, as I am not. The worst part about getting older and still having a good memory is that kids like you come along behind and call us liars. He hated competitors and if you could lift a 4x5, you were a competitor.The best thing AA ever did for me was to tell me I would never become a photographer.
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