Ansel Adams

I chose to research Ansel Adams this week because he is one of the greatest landscape photographers ever. It would seem like an obvious choice to choose him since my work has become more landscape based. I love the simple beauty of his images. He doesn't do anything to his environment when he's photographing. He simply captures what he sees. And that is, in essence, what I am trying to accomplish now.

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, CA in 1902. He was a photographer as well as an environmental activist. He was an only child and had a somewhat solitary childhood. He had a huge interest in nature and would take long walks near the Golden Gate Bridge. He once stated that his love of nature was "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture" (anseladams.com). He spent a lot of time hiking, climbing, and exploring around Yosemite and the Sierras. He spent a lot of time traveling the country seeking out natural beauty that he could photograph. He was also very involved with promoting photography as a fine art medium. "Adams was the last and defining figure in the romantic tradition of nineteenth-century American landscape painting and photography" (anseladams.com).

"Adams's technical mastery was the stuff of legend. More than any creative photographer, before or since, he reveled in the theory and practice of the medium" (anseladams.com). 

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/art%20news/905N-000-001.html


www.metmuseum.org


www.anseladams.com