The Minimalist Photographer

Making Use of the Wisdom of Others

Now let’s move out of the abstract and introduce some examples of famous photographers.

Ask any U.S.-based photographer to name just one photographer that he or she admires, and that person may respond with Ansel Adams, the American photographer most famous for his landscapes and dramatic tones. Adams was a strong advocate for something he called Previsualization. This process involved the photographer imagining as precisely as possible how they wanted the resulting print of the scene to look before putting an eye to the viewfinder. Adams argued that this allowed for the optimal aesthetic, intellectual, spiritual, and mechanical effects to be achieved. This approach obviously worked for him; however, that does ...