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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
1902
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1984
Close-up of leaves In Glacier National Park (1942)
Canyon de Chelly
The Tetons and the Snake River (1942)
Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain, Yosemite National Park
Church, Taos Pueblo (1942)
Photography
Early life
Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco. Ansel was an only child and was names after his uncle.
- Ansel was given his first camera in 1916 by his father on a family trim to Yosemite National Park.
Ansel had a good relationship with his father but not his mother. She did not approve of his interest photography.
- In the 1930s, Adams began to use his photographs for the cause of wilderness preservation.
At age 17, Adams joined the Sierra Club
Ansel Adams was an environmentalist, photographer, and in his early years a
musician.
- In 1952 Adams was one of the founders of the magazine Aperture.
- In 2010 one of Ansel's photos,'CLEARING WINTER STORM, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK', was auctioned off for $722,500. The highest price ever payed for an original Ansel Adams photograph.
- Ansel didn't only shoot in black and white, but he did prefer it over colour.
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
-Ansel Adams
"You don't take
a photograph,
you make it."
-Ansel Adams
Music
1) Roy Firestone (2008, April 14) Roy Firestone interviews Ansel Adams [video file].
Retrieved form http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAHIGS4iiJY
2) Ansel Adams. (2013, November 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:19, November 29, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ansel_Adams&oldid=583170343
3) (Ansel Adams) (Ansel Adams, “ You don’t take a photograph, you make it.")
- Adams became interested in piano at age 12.
- He intended to become a musician but later switched to photography
- The discipline and training he revived from his piano training helped him become a better photographer
Awards
Conservation Service Award in 1968
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980
He was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2007