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Ansel Adams in color

Black and white master Ansel Adams actually shot a lot of color film for commercial work and magazine assignments. He even exhibited his color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art. Though he regarded color photography highly, calling it the 'medium of the future,' he also felt it lacked the necessary controls to elevate photography from recording medium to "art." Black and white photography gave Ansel the control over every aspect of the process in influencing the finished image—that's where the Zone System of exposure and processing came from. Still, it's interesting to look for hints of the Ansel we're more familiar with throughout the more than one dozen images in this online gallery at Time magazine. Adams wrote of the work, "I have done no color of consequence for 30 years." Will you agree?

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