Discussion Questions
Surf Sequence
Ansel Adams
May 2017
Ansel Adams, Surf Sequence, 1940; promised gift of Launny and Weezie Steffens; © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust; photo: Don Ross
- What is the effect of having many photographs of the same location?
- Where was the photographer standing to take this sequence of photographs? What is the effect of this point of view?
- What would it be like to be standing there? What would you hear? Smell? What would the environment feel like?
- Is what you see here beautiful? Why or why not? Do you think a photograph has to be beautiful to be art? Why or why not?
