1 American Photographer Ansel Adams By Linda Ivy "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.“ -- Ansel Adams --
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1. AmericanPhotographerAnsel Adams ByLinda Ivy
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to havesomebody
click the shutter.-- Ansel Adams --
2. AnselEaston Adams
3. Ansel Easton AdamsFeb. 20 1902 Apr. 22 1984Adams was born in
San Francisco, California Photographer and environmentalist known
for his black and white photographs of our American
West.
4. Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley c.1927
5. Adams taught himself to play the piano and read music at the
age of twelve.Taking lessons became his substitute for formal
schooling. Piano brought substance, discipline, and structure. This
would profoundly inform his visual artistry. Ultimately he gave up
music for photography.
6. Minarets, Evening Clouds, California c.1937
7. He spent as much time as he could every year from 1916 until
his death. From his first visit, Adams was transfixed and
transformed from its beauty the evidence canonly be seen in the
beauty he captured in all of his photographs.In 1919 he joined the
Sierra Club and spent four summers in Yosemite Valley, as "keeper"
of the club's LeConte Memorial Lodge .
Hemethiswife, VirginiaBest, hereatYosemite.
8. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico c.1941
9. 1922Adams first published photographs and writings appeared
in the Sierra Club s Bulletin.1927Adams made his first fully
visualized photograph, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome. 1928Adams
had his first one man exhibition at the Sierra Clubs San Francisco
headquarters.1934 Adams is elected to the Sierra Clubs board of
directors.
Adams was a great artist
ofSierra Nevada and was known
as a protector and defender of Yosemite.
10. Lake MacDonald, Glacier National Park c.1942
11. Adams'slife is the stuff of legends. Adams developed the
famous and highly complex "zone system" of controlling and relating
exposure and development. He produced ten volumes of technical
manuals on photography. These books are known as the most
influential books ever written on the subject of
photography.
12. The Tetons and theSnake River, Grand TetonNational Park,
Wyoming c.1942
13. Some of Ansel Adams early video
clipshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/sfeature/sf_sierra.html
14. Central Park andSkyscrapers, New York City c.
1945
15. Records of the National Park ServiceAnsel Adams
Photographs
http://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams/
16. Nevada Fall, Rainbow, Yosemite Valley c. 1947
17. more websites to check out:
http://www.anseladams.com/http://www.sierraclub.org/history/anseladams/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/peopleevents/p_aadams.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/peopleevents/p_aadams.htmlhttp://www.anseladams.com/aboutAAG.htmlhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?articleID=64235962&c=y
18. Oak Tree,Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park
c.1948
19. Aspens, Northern New Mexico c.1958
20. Moon and Half Dome,Yosemite Valley c.1960
21. El Capitan, Winter Sunrise, Yosemite National Park
c.1968
22. All Photographs by Ansel Adams The Trustees of the Ansel
Adams Publishing Rights Trustcourtesyof
Masters of Photography
23. Ansel did not like using color
he thought it was like playing an out of tune piano.
Here are a few he did make.
25. Works cited:
Sometimes I do . --Ansel Adams
Web sites :
Turnage, Robert.Ansel Adams: The Role of the Artist in the
Environmental Movement.March 1980.The Ansel Adams Gallery.
http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/conservation.html
Turnage, William.Ansel Adams, Photographer.2009.The Ansel Adams
Gallery.
http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/anseladams_biography2.html
Ansel Anecdotes:Perspectives on Moonrise.
2009.The Ansel Adams Gallery.
http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/ansel_ancedotes.html