Ansel Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a photographer and environmentalist born in San Francisco, California. He was the only child and son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. When he was four years old, the aftershock of the great earthquake of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose that marked him for the rest of his life. In 1907, the family fortune collapsed in a financial panic and his father spent the rest of his life trying to recover. His parents and the presence of his mother’s sister created an environment that was Victorian. Intelligent, timid, and his nose injury, caused Adams to have trouble in school. This led him to be tutored at home by his father and aunt and in the end completed …show more content…
Later in life, he noticed a possibility of being hyperactive and dyslexic. As a result of his unique childhood, he became fond of and inspired by nature as he loved long walks and hiking. At the age of twelve, Adams taught himself how to play the piano and read music. Then, he continued to study music for the next couple of years and the piano was his passion but ultimately gave up music for photography. In 1916, he went to Yosemite National Park, where he began exploring with photography. He eventually learned darkroom techniques and went to photography and art exhibits. In 1919, Adams joined the Sierra Club where he met his wife, Virginia Best, in Yosemite and later on had two children. The Sierra Club was significant to his early success as a photographer. His first photographs were published in the club’s 1922 Bulletin. In 1927, his professional breakthrough was the publication of his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. The portfolio was a success that gave him many commercial projects. In 1928, he had his first exhibition at the club’s San Francisco headquarters. Between 1929 and 1942, Adams’ work and …show more content…
Other photographers like Weston and Strand would often consult Adams for technical advice. He served as a photographic advisor to Polaroid and Hasselblad. He developed the famous and complex “zone system” of controlling exposure and development, allowing photographers to creatively visualize an image and create a photograph that matched their visualization. He published the most influential books ever written on the subject. Adams’s energy and capacity for work was astonishing. In his life, there were no such things as vacations, holidays, or Sundays. Adams described himself as a photographer, lecturer and writer. He would constantly travel the country in search of the natural beauty he admired and photographed. Adams felt a strong commitment to encourage photography as a fine art and played a vital role in the creation of the first museum department of photography, at the Museum of Modern Art in New
Photography is an art which can be earn by a creative mind. Not everyone has a creative mind. Art is god gifted to specific persons. We know about many photographers through magazines, newspapers, T.V shows. Every artist has different style of work. A person who wants to become famous have to do something different than others. Even after victory, that person have to use more brain to stay on that status and have to do more creative things so that he or she can raise his/her standard in the race. I have read about many photographers, but I want to share history and creativity of two photographers “Cindy Sherman and Ansel Adams”.
	 In 1928 Ansel was an official photographer for the Sierra Club at the Jasper National Park in Canada. In 1932, Ansel opened the short-lived Ansel Adams Gallery for photography along with other arts. Ansel lectured and taught to make his living when his gallery was open.
photography, and then made a photo journal of his work and named the book “How the Other
Ansel adams and John Davies are both very famous and well known landscape photographers who have very conceptual ideas and techniques in their photography. they are both known for their brilliant black and white landscape photography.
At age 14, Abelardo Morell realizes that he discovers his passion of photography through the photography books or magazines at his uncle 's house. According to the National Geographic
When Adams was young he often experienced sickness; which left him few friends. Adams was also an extremely distracted child that had been thrown out of multiple private schools. Eventually, his father pulled him out of school at age 15 and was tutored by his father and aunt Mary. Then soon after returned to finish 8th grade in 1917 from Mrs. Kate M Wilkins Private School. In 1916 Adams parents took him to Yosemite National Park where his father provided him with a Kodak Brownie box camera, his first camera.
From a young age he showed uncommon interest in wilderness and the outdoors and grew into one of the personalities most responsible for defining what American wilderness means. In his twenties, Ansel demonstrated incredible mastery of the young art form of photography. Through his friendships and collaboration with other artists and environmentalists and through his many prestigious art shows and published collections he gained fame. He used his fame, strong personal voice and persuasive activism for environmental conservation causes such as ... and for environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. In particular, Ansel Adams was inspired and captivated by Yosemite at a young age and found the mountains to be his calling. His passion to preserve the park he experienced as a young boy fueled his efforts.
Born in 1934, Jerry Uelsmann grew up an inner city kid of Detroit. In high school, Uelsmann worked as an assistant for a photography studio; he eventually photographed weddings. Uelsmann went to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he met Minor White, who “introduced [him] to the concept that photography could be used for self-expression” (Berman). While at RIT, he studied with Bruce Davidson, Peter Turner and Car Chiaraenza, with whom he held frequent discussions on how photography could be different. After RIT, Uelsmann went to Indiana University where he changed his degree to a Master of Fine Arts degree. He graduated with an M.S. and an M.F.A at Indiana University in 1960, where he studied with Henry Holmes Smith, who had
In 1861, Watkins traveled to Yosemite and finally made his debut as a landscape photographer.
He was very successful as an architect, and in fact, he was the architect to win the Atlanta Press Photographer Association competition. He credits his experience as an architect with some of his ability in photography by giving him the skills to build the setting of his photographs.
When he first went to college, he wanted to pursue a forestry major at Colorado State University, but he soon discovered that he had an interest in art. His art education took him
Ansel Adams was a brilliant artist who struggled in his early life for acceptance and finding his future occupation. He didn't let his failure in school or his mother's disappointment stop him from pursuing his desired career. Because of his hard work, passion, and dedication he strongly influenced art for years to come. His photographs still inspire many
Steve was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in April 23, 1950. He began photography after working for the newspaper at Pennsylvania State University. Soon he started to take many trips to India where he discovered some insights in the world of photography. Later McCurry said “If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.” This quote explains many of his later photos, such as his most well known photo, ‘Afghan Girl’.
“The Shining” is a psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, released in 1980 to mediocre reviews and an initially poor box office performance. Over time, audiences began to like the film more and more, improving its box office performance and is now known as a quintessential horror film masterpiece. Stanley Kubrick is a photographer at heart and he had a career as a photographer before being a filmmaker, and it is obvious in his works how important framing and cinematography is to him. “The Shining” utilizes visual components to the fullest, from the first frame of the film to the last.
Eugene Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas in the year 1918, and began his photography career in his teenage years working for two newspaper companies. Smith later attended Notre Dame University, but left within a year to New York City. He studied at the New York Institute of Photography and later worked for Newsweek. Eugene was later part of island-hopping in the Pacific during World War II, where he was injured. After recovery, he worked for Life and later became the president of the Photo League (1949). He continued his photography career and later taught at the University of Arizona. He only taught for about a year; he died in 1978 due to a stroke. Many of his pieces are kept together at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. His legacy also lives because of the Eugene Smith Fund, which promotes humanistic photography.