After the Afterlife by Hummer T. R.;

After the Afterlife by Hummer T. R.;

Author:Hummer, T. R.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Acre Books


ANSEL ADAMS ON THE MOON

It’s a question of contrast—the issue is middle gray,

and just when you think you’ve metered it,

It nails you to the wall. If I look at enough of these photographs

I get tired of Ansel Adams, bored with the way he thinks.

I hunger for something odd of Weston’s, or give it up altogether

and go back to a sublimely ugly burgher by Vermeer.

Adams worked so slowly for the lyric, his craft so absolutely conscious,

that half his subjects died waiting for the shutter to fall,

And the other half gave up and looked for different work,

or stood in line at a soup kitchen in Santa Fe, holding out

Their stony hands for menudo and a white tortilla scrap. But then

I come across the moon, weightless over Hernandez,

New Mexico, still exactly the way it was that day it surprised him

at 4:05 p.m. local time, October 31, 1941. It was Halloween,

Nine years before I was born. Adams says nothing of that.

How could he leave out the American Day of the Dead?

How could he forget I was waiting to appear? He’d spent hours failing

to satisfy himself with the stump of a cottonwood—it refused

To be imagined. And here was the moon as he’d never seen it.

He had two minutes and thirty-seven seconds to capture it

Inside the massive 8×10 Deardorff before the scene eroded,

no time even to meter, but he realized he knew the exact

Luminance, how much light the moon threw down (250 c/ft2),

so he dialed it in and the world stood still. Down in the village, kids

Were dressing up as zombies and unborn poets. One wore my face and wove

down the haunted avenues. I was still almost that boy’s lifetime

From coming into focus, still nearly a decade from the aperture,

but the moon rolled on against the film of the darkening sky,

While inside the camera’s negative space—all because the Maestro knew

his light—its soul waited to be dodged and burned.



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