ANSELLLLLLLLLL ADAMS

So! when deciding on who I shall research next I never knew anything about ansel and everyone seems to love this feelllow and i wanted to learn more about him!

Ansel Easton Adams born. February 20, 1902 in San Francisco. His grandfather founded and built a prosperous lumber business, which his father ran, though his father’s natural talents were in the sciences.Adams was a hyperactive kid and was always sick. He didnt have many friends and realllly loved nature then music became the main focus. He enjoyed the piano the most and was a concert pianoist for a long time. Adams first visited Yosemite National Park in 1916 with his family soon later
his father gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie box camera. It all started,in thee winter, he learned basic darkroom technique working part-time for a San Francisco photo finisher. Adams read photography magazines, went to camera club meetings, and went to photography exhibits.

He really focused on his piano playing skills and in the summer of his twenties he sold his early photos and they showed good composition. In 1927, Adams had his first portfolio which inclued Monolith, the vertical western face of Half Dome taken with his Korona view camera.With the promotion of Albert Bender, his first portfolio earned 3900 dollars and soon they wanted him to do commercial assignments. Then his carreer took off and he traveled and was honored and asked to do more jobs. In 1945, Adams was asked to form the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts. Adams invited Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham and Minor White to become faculty members.

In 1952 Adams was one of the founders of the magazine Aperture, he began doing annual workshops for students. Around in the 1950s, he thought that he was on the down side of his creative life. He continued with commercial assignments for another twenty years and became a consultant on a monthly retainer for Polaroid Corporation. In 1974, Adams had a major retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then He made the first portrait of a president made a photograph.His legacy includes helping to elevate photography to an art compared to painting and music, and equal of expressing emotion and beauty.

Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984, at the age of 82 from heart failure.Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,760 ft (3,580 m) peak in the Sierra Nevada, was named for him in 1985.The full archive of Ansel Adams' work is located at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson.



I think after looking at all of ansels work i feel like he was the actuall originator. All his workes were not based off others they were original. Now we are basing our work off him.. I like to see the evolving of photography and i think he plays a very big role in it.








out of all these photos i can say this is my least favorite...hahah i only like the way the sand dunes are formed because it entertains me...and it's prettty!





this one is kind of like the vantage point one...i like it because my eye goes straight to the moon... it interesting how the little bit of change can change where you focus.





This one shows me an example of getting close to your object and catching the DETAIL. this photo isnt about the backround and the backround isnt taking away from the photo it is clearly about one single thing the flower. I love love love getting close to my object and getting detail.





I love this one simply because it is a beautiful scene, and it carries simplicity which i think is key to having a good photograph like this one.





this one above is my favorite of all of them because, i loveeee the vantage point here and where my eye is wanting to follow i think it is a classssic example!