Fast Company does Ansel Adams

The magazine that brought business periodicals out of the dulldrums, Fast Company, has added a new channel to its Web TV site. Aimed at photographers, it's called PhotoCycle. Its first episode takes a trip to Yosemite Valley with Ansel Adams's son Michael, who talks about his dad's life and photography.

"A lot of people don't realize how much his [Ansel's] final result was dependent on what he did in the darkroom," Adams tells Photocycle interviewer Marc Silber. "That was in many ways the genius. A lot of us could take the picture and come up with the negative, but he could do some magic things with it in the darkroom."

"He always told people that this is not reality," he continued. "What I'm giving you in this print is not what you're seeing in the environment. You're seeing my interpretation of it. You're seeing something very dramatic in many ways."