I had the pleasure of walking through Annie’s show on Friday opening at the SF Legion of Honor. It covers an amazing span of her work which is impressive, intimate, courageously self reviewing, I could go on and on, you simply must see it.

She told the story of Demi Moore dropping her clothes and leading the shoot for this shot

We had fun talking about the old days at the SF Art Institute

Take a look at Robert Scoble’s blog on this show and see his Qik video (our high Def video will be up later.)

This question has been tossed about, but was answered by AA in 1981 (decades before digital really took hold)  in the intro to The Negative, the second of his Photo Basics books.

“I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.”

I’m re-reading Ansels’ books from the viewpoint of digital (since when I first read them in the 60s.) It is the hallmark of professionals to “continually strive to comprehend and control” their medium, which in our case happens to be light itself.