... and Georgia O'Keefe

I was browsing through Amazon.com tonight, looking for Adams-related items, when I came across Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities.

It's not often I wish for a wish-list, but this book isn't yet in the Interior Library.  I used the "Look Inside" feature to get a glimpse of the beginning of Affinities, but not quite enough to determine if it includes any of O'Keefe's reaction to Adams' work on The Mural Project.

Time for an inter-library loan?

... and Georgia O'Keefe

Film Festivals for Short Documentaries

It's time to start looking for venues.  I've subscribed to a service that pitches me on all sorts of festivals, but of course not all will be appropriate.  Also, you may have more experience than they do with particular shows.

So -- Mill Valley Film Festival -- go or no-go?  What do you know?  They have a category for documentaries of less than 30 minutes.  That's a start.  But I'd love to hear about your experiences at Mill Valley.

Film Festivals for Short Documentaries

The Divine in Nature and Photography

Today, I'm making my best effort to plow through Anne Hammond's Ansel Adams: Divine Performance. The book chronicles Ansel Adams' spiritual journey and its relationship to his photography, which, I'll admit, is something I hadn't been thinking about, prior to picking up this text.

However, it also contains an excellent list of references, including this one, describing what we think of as The Mural Project as merely the beginning of a much larger set of works:

The set of images from the national parks was only the first in a series of subjects originally planned to include Native American reservations, grazing, mining, fisheries, power, and irrigation. Ansel Adams, "Mural Project for the United States Department of the Interior Building, Washington, D.C.," 7 December 1941, typescript, Yosemite Research Library, Yosemite National Park, California.

I think I really need to visit the Yosemite Research Library.  Perhaps an e-mail to Anne Hammond is also in order.

The Divine in Nature and Photography