Shooting the Shooter - Adams/Weston Edition

There’s a saying in the creative community that there is no such thing as being the first at anything - it’s all been done before!  No idea is so creative or original that no one else has thought of it yet.  If it seems new or original, it’s just that you haven’t found the person who’s already thought of it and done it.  So it didn’t come as much of a surprise when the other morning, while reading The Flame of Recognition Edward Weston, by Nancy Newhall (an excellent book by the way), I came across her version of shooting the shooter.  Of course it was first published in 1965, when I was 5 years old!

On the left hand page, Nancy Newhall placed a photograph of Edward Weston taken by Ansel Adams titled Lake Tenaya:

Oh how I enjoyed photographing with an 8x10 camera the few times I had the privilege (and the funding) to use one.  But I digress. . . .

On the right hand page was Edward Weston’s Lake Tenaya 1937:

So the Shooting the Shooter series isn’t as original as we might have thought.  

Still, if our lack of originality places us in the same category as Ansel, Edward and Nancy Newhall, Ann and I shouldn’t feel bad about it!

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