Critics who didn't like Ansel Adams

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I need to write a few thousand words for Ansel Adams and another few thousand against him, I can find plenty of critics and writing in support of his work and plenty mention that some critics really didn't like his work but I'm struggling to find any specific critics who were anti-Adams.

Can anyone suggest some critics or pieces of writing I could have a look at?
 
I don't know of any specific criticism of Adams, but Susan Sontag 'On Photography'is an excellent read on photographic criticism.
 
I imagine the critics of Adams will not be disliking on the form of his work per se, but perhaps more that that is all that they are, formal exercises without any social content.

Here's a clue...

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/12/entertainment/ca-33173/3

LA Times said:
Q: You've written that Adams was out of step with the social realism of most photographers during the Depression and World War II.

Szarkowski: That's right. Not only Eastern, but Western critics too, like [Kenneth] Rexroth, wrote that if Adams and Weston were going to amount to anything, they'd better get with the social activist program and stop photographing rocks and mountain peaks and Sierra lakes. In the '30s, and then the war, it did seem as if civilization might be snuffed out by the powers of darkness. It all left a mark on Ansel. No one wants to be accused of being socially irrelevant.
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