Ansel Easton Adams (Feb. 1902–Apr. 1984), and American photographer and environmentalist, has had his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books. Adams, with Fred Archer, developed the Zone System to determine proper exposure and to adjust the contrast of the final print in a photograph. His works held such clarity and depth that they became the foremost record of what National Parks were like before tourism. In California, envelopes containing photographic negatives considered to be made by Ansel Adams was found at a sale. There are several factors that make experts believe that the negatives are the work of Adams.
One factor pointing to the photographs being works by Adams is a photographic negative of pine trees leaning downward on a cliff. This same image is seen in other well known photographs of Adams.
Also, the handwriting of the address on the envelope looked very similar to that of Virginia Adams, Ansel Eaton Adams' wife, who acted as his assistant. It is very likely that Adams created the negatives and Virginia Adams organized them. This would explain the similar handwriting.
And finally, some of the negative appear to have fire damage. It is known that Adams' studio has caught on fire before. A third of his negatives were burned in that fire so some evidence of fire damage would be expected on surviving negatives.
Recently there has been tons of debate regarding the credit for developing the negatives which depicted the National Parks with profound clarity and depth. The author in the passage claims that negatives are the work of Ansel Easton Adams, an American photographer and environmentalist, whose black and white landscape photographs of American West was widely reproduced in various forms of printing media. The lecturer, however, is quick to point out the major flaws in the claims made by author.
To begin with, the author argues that since negatives of pine trees leaning downward on a cliff is an image seen in other well known photographs of Adams, the pine tree negative in New Cemity National park should also be a work of Adams. The lecturer challenges this argument by pointing out that it could be the work of any photographer since pine tree is a common occurence in the work of many artists. There is no solid evidence to conclude it was the work of Adam.
Furthermore, the author believes that the handwriting of the address on envelope looked similar to that of Virginia Adams, Ansel Eaton Adams' wife, who was as his assistant and organised Adams negatives. The professor, however, rebuts this by mentioning that there were misspelling of common landmarks in the letters which could not have been done by Virginia Adams, since she was born and raised around the same area of the landmarks.
Finally, the author posits that few negatives show fire damage, which can be related to fire in Adam studio where he lost one third of his negatives. The lecturer disputes this by contending that negatives are made of extremely flammable material which is very common to catch fire. Thus, negatives with fire damage could be the work of any photographer, the argument made by the author is not enough evidence to narrow it down to Adams.
To sum up, both the writer and the professor hold conflicting views about the credit for Adams negatives. Its clear that they will have trouble finding common ground to this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, look, regarding, so, third, thus, well, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 30.3222958057 185% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1692.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 344.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91860465116 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57242312529 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531976744186 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 535.5 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.4701456603 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.153846154 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4615384615 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.46153846154 7.06452816374 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172006585484 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604755923662 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0903480548893 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0941304683094 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0815708945313 0.0443174109184 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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