American Experience: Ansel Adams

Starring: Burns, Ric

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ANSEL ADAMS (DVD)

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 841887051453
• Release Date: April 2009
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: PBS
• Director: Burns, Ric
• Starring: Burns, Ric
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 9

Customer Reviews

Video biography of Ansel and his works

This DVD contains a video that was directly copied from the PBS “American Experience” program S14.E11. You can tell it was not touched up or enhanced, fixed, or anything else. I suspect that they were not planning on people having 46-inch televisions. The credits in the beginning part of the program are fuzzy. But when it gets down to talking about Adams, he gets down to talking about Adams, and many of the photographs mysteriously get sharper. We get so engrossed in the subject matter of both Adams and his pictures that we no longer care one way or the other were sharp or not. My only complaint is that the presentation is in soundbite form. I do not know who designed the program that way, but they could have focused on one person or another instead of person A, and B, and C, and A, and B, and C, repeatedly, and so forth. It breaks the continuity of thought. For me, the experience is enhanced because I have been to most of these places several times. I hope to go back again. I have also been intrigued by the mechanics of photography before it became the digital age. I am still interested in digital photography. But photography aside, by the time you get to the end of this program, you will feel that you have lost your only friend. This presentation gave me a unique way of looking at life and being conservative about what nature has brought us.