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Alan Ross is an internationally respected master photographer and educator who expresses his unique vision with a combination of traditional photographic craftsmanship and today’s technology. His tonally exquisite photographs take the viewer from the grandeur of the American West to the changing faces of China to abstractions created by the relationship of objects both natural and man-made. Each image is a purely visual and emotional response to the subject matter, executed with an exacting eye and superior technical artistry.
Alan honed his vision and technique while working side-by-side with Ansel Adams in the field and in the darkroom as his full-time photographic assistant. He was integrally involved with Adams’ books, teaching in Yosemite, and production of fine prints. Alan was personally selected by Adams to be the exclusive printer of the Yosemite Special Edition Photograph negatives, an assignment he has enjoyed for nearly 50 years. As such, Alan knows Ansel’s approach and technique perhaps better than any other photographer today.
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Alan Ross is an internationally respected master photographer and educator who expresses his unique vision with a combination of traditional photographic craftsmanship and today’s technology.
“For those of us to whom words do not come easily, a photograph becomes the language that allows us to express who we are, what we think, and how we respond to the world around us. I have used this “language of light” for almost 60 years to articulate those thoughts and feelings I am not often able to put into words.”
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Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, Carmel, 1976
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Education
- B.A. University of California, Berkeley: Design / Photography, 1971
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Halsted Gallery, Birmingham MI
- Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga TN
- University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
- Rochester Institute of Technology NY
- Vision Gallery, San Francisco
- Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA
- Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe
- Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite
Seected Group Exhibitions
- Friends of Photography, Carmel
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
- Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge MA
- Witkin Gallery, New York
- Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel
- Columbus (GA) Museum of Art
- Thomasville Center for the Arts, GA
- California Nature Art Museum, Solvang, CA
Selected Collections & Publictions
Articles about, & references:
- Petersen's Photographic, August 1984
- Photo District News, August 1985
- Darkroom Photography, May/June 1987
- View Camera, September 1989
- View Camera, March April 1995
- B&W Magazine April 2006
- Lenswork magazine Jul-Aug 2006
- ViewCamera Jul 2006
- Emulsion magazine Aug 2006
- Photoworld China 2020
Articles by:
- Darkroom Photography, March /April 1985, Performing Ansel's Score
- Camera Arts, Jun/July, Aug/Sep, Oct/Nov, 1998, Dec/Jan 98-99, Variable Contrast Printing, four-part technical series
- ViewCamera Jul/Aug, Sep/Oct, Nov/Dec 1999, Selective Masking, three part technical series. Camera Arts, Oct/Nov 2001, Getting the Most out of Medium Format
- ViewCamera May/Jun 2003, A Morning in the Dunes with Ansel Adams
- B&W Magazine April 2006
- Lenswork Magazine Jul-Aug 2006
- ViewCamera Magazine Jul-Aug 2006
- Emulsion Magazine Aug 2006
- PhotoTechnique, Understanding Lenses
- Looking Glass magazine 2012-18
- Photoworld China, Ansel Adams and Photography as Art
- Misc. interviews and articles in print and web
Teaching
Numerous workshops for Ansel Adams and The Friends of Photography. Others include:
- University of California Extension
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Palm Beach Workshops
- Photo tours to China 1981, 1982
- Ilford Photographic Technical seminars
- Director, Ansel Adams Workshops 1982, 1983
- Santa Fe Workshops; The Ansel Adams Gallery
- Pingyao Photo Festival, Pingyao, China
- Chinese Photographic Society, Lishui, China
- Cleveland Institute of Art, 2007. Location workshops in Italy, Croatia, China, Ireland, Cuba, Scotland, Greece
- Private Workshops
Associated Contributions And Experience
Invention and manufacture of U.S. Patent No. 4,522,490, June 1985: Method and Apparatus for Adapting Photographic Enlargers for use with Large Format Negatives. Marketed as the Beseler 810 enlarger.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlanRossPhotography
Instagram: @alanrossphotography
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Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, Carmel, 1976
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Farm and Clouds, Mule Creek, New Mexico
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