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Show The Salt Lake Trihune, Sunday, March It. 19K2 F, 3 Ansel Adams accuses Reagan of working against quality of life Robert Strand t'mfed Press International CARMEL. Calif -Ansel Adams, Americas photographer laureate, says the trouble with younger craftsmen is they don't believe in hard work In ms home, with a sweeping view of rugged coastline, Adams, who turned HO Feb 20, works eight-hou- r days and says for himself retirement to do it in music, but photographers dont believe it They think you just take a picture " Besides technical skill, for Adams creative success requires knowing life as a whole, a person needs something to exI know that press sounds a little pompous, but its true Ixing Hours Adams credits his own By would be terrible meticulousness, structural " by-pa11 get tired st quicker " Tins summer, for the tirst time in decades, Adams will not visit his beloved Yosemite Valley to conduct a workshop for young photographers The altitude has begun to bother him He will instead teach the students near his home Western Wilderness For students, he is a god For many Americans. the western wilderness is defined by the dramatic visions of his view Under For millions, these impassioned perceptions signal a need for conservation. What is happening to conservation these days incenses the photoa seemgraphic sage ingly always cheery fellow with a spry bounce to his movements, a pixie-lsgleam in the eyes, a fixed smile on the lips and a slightly askew nose, broken in an accident years ago. 1 think it ironic that the republicans are concerned about protecting capital, and this administration is completely careless about protecting the biggest capital we have or ever will have." he says "Thats the eapth as a uhole and all its resources. Adams accuses president Reagan and Interior Secretary James Watt of organizing a campaign to destroy the national park system, the wilderness areas and many of the qualities that make hie worth living. People should not be comforted just because Yosemite Falls is still there." In a few photographic to long hours as a boy at the piano under the tutelage of a Prussian music professor. Adams nearly achieved concert pianist status, and occasionally his fingers still work the keyboard The only child of a wealthy insurance man perceptions, "I feel good, says Adams, who has had a heart operation I and years," Photographer Laureate a lack of aesthetic motivation, says Adams, arguing photographers did a somewhat better job during the civil war than during recent military conflicts. Adams thinks creative photographers today suffer from a lack of something to say, a condition which he says might be remedied by some large new experience shared by the society such as the great depression If the Reagan administration doesnt succeed, the state of the country may provide the motivation, he said. In his workshops, Adams has taught nearly 5,000 young photographers, an experience that prompts him to complain about "a disturbing lack of craftmanship " Artistic success requires hard work, Adams said. You have is now-arthrit- and amateur tronomer, as- Adams grew up in a San Francisco overlooking the children, grew Ills heard sHctueular golden gate and tramped through the house It was an intellectual of tutors environment and a physical environ nient m which the impact of nature was grand In the litOH earthquake, the boy, then 4 was tumbled by an aftershock into a brick wall, breaking his nose, leaving him with an obvious distor tion The family doctor said fix it when he matures Adams chuckles But of course I never did mature, so still have the nose " His career was ultimately determined by a momentous event for the a 1918 trip to boy Yosemite Valley with his father and a Kodak brownie box camera Later, it was at Yosemite that Adams married Ills wile (they have been married more than 50 yearsi, saw the birth of one of his two mountains as a guide and photographer for the Sierra (Tub The association with the Sierra Club, of which lie served as a director for :?t years, brought Adams to the forefront as a conservationist The body of his w ork w ould he as a nature photographer and the sweeping natural wonders found through his lens propelled Adams to the prominence he .i eh loved Ail lished Adams book, pub111 19,'W, helped influence president Franklin D Roosevelt to make Californias Kings Canyon a National Park In fighting landowners and cattlemen for Kings I was Canyon, he said so naiv o It was an education I learned you don't get anywheie h " kicking dums' early pictures were not exceptional For the young mail the camera was a tool "to record where 1 went and who what was with tree I slept under " A big change occurred with a famous 1927 photo of half dome in Yosemite that Adams says was the first in whnli lie empoi loyed ' visualization 1 deciding in advance the result would look Then, in now photography ex ists That convinced me 1 really wanted to be a photographer." These days Adams rarely picks up a camera. Instead, he spends his mornings making prints from thousands of negatives he has collected The negative is the score," he has often said The print is the how at a m Taos. 19,50 friends house M Adams met Paul Strand, a photographer 12 years lus senior Iaxik-inover Strand's shoulder, Adams saw nega fives that ' flipped me out" because of their deliberate composition Strand was the turn1 ing point " he said came home thinking. , g " 1 European Bed 25 OFF Elegant cantilevered bed Handcrafted from select red oak. natural conventional or wnterbod mattress, queen or king oil finish Frame accepts E Cr C to E 3 YOUNG CHANG PIANOS Grands Uprights Consoles Quality and at A- ffordable Prices. Design Direction BARRUS PIANOS 2007 v2 McClelland St. (1040 East) Sugar House 486-365- 6187 So. 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