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Ansel Adams: Environmentalist And Photographer

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Ansel Adams the environmentalist and photographer was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. His father and mother were Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray. They lived right outside the Golden Gate. When Ansel was a young boy he was thrown into a wall by an earthquake. After the earthquake, his nose was bent out of place and would forever stay the same. Most of his childhood he would spend most of his time wondering around the Golden Gate in search of nature and when he came home he would have to listen to his mother fretting over Adams inability to keep the family fortune. But his father would be encouraging and supportive of Ansel. Both his parents left a big mark on him. Ansel was suspended from three schools because

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