Ansel+Adams




 * Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist who was born in San Francisco on February 20, 1902.
 * He grew up in a house set amongst the sand dunes of the Golden Gate.
 * When Adams was only four a shock of a big earthquake threw him to the ground and broke his nose.
 * Adams was born when his mother was only forty years old.
 * When Adams was twelve, he taught himself to play piano and read music. Soon he was taking lessons and teaching what he learned to others.
 * In 1927 Adams had an essential year.
 * He made his first fully visualized photograph called the Face of Half Dome.
 * Also in this same year Adams met photographer Edward Weston.
 * Adam soon became a technical master, more than any creativity photographer.
 * Adams energy and capacity for work were simply natural.
 * He often labored for eight to twelve hours on days and weekends.
 * Adams described himself as a photographer-lecturer-writer.
 * He traveled the world to find a picture to take about nature.
 * Though the wilderness areas were his great passion, photography was his calling.
 * Adams was the last and defining figure in the romantic tradition of the American tradition.
 * Ansel Adams was in the Romantic art period and the Romantic art period is an international artistic and philosocal movement; that in fundamental ways in which people in western countries thought about themselves.
 * Artist Statement: I choose this art piece for the project because I liked how there was nothing in the photograph except for the woods. I was thinking before the project to make a scary person from a movie. Some steps that I used to to blend my person in is i stretched him out and put camouflage on the person to make him blend in with the painting.

Sites: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html []

Ansel Adams launched the Yosemite photos below in a special edition series in 1958. The photo above was not from the Yosemite edition series.