Ansel Adams : The Most Important Landscape Photographer Of The Twentieth Century

	In 1915 when Ansel was 13, his father bought him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This

Ansel Adams was a photographer who was also an environmentalist who specialised in fully focused photos. Ansel Adams is one of the most respected and well known photographers in the world, known for his breathtaking land scape photos of the west of America, like the Utah mountains ect. Throughout his long 70 year old career he made a lot of work. He had over 500 gallery shows in his time which is amazing! His style included sharp and even focus, extensive tonal range, clarity of detail, straight or pure photography, close-up images or expansive sweeping landscapes and majestic, heroic images, full of national pride. His themes and interests in art and photography is the earth and all its features. He focussed the whole photo which I think is amazing because the detail is amazing and it’s all amazing because its black and white as well. It has greys which is good but everyone of his photos but he always has a true black and true white. The quality of light in

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.

Adams was living in the mid 1900’s when he saw how people were in constant stress and fear from war and rough times. In the period of this series of photographs world war and worldwide economic depression was present. Using photography he created black and white images of nature. According to Susan, he is delivering a message for a better world with his photograph. The picture of a surf on the California beach was made to help troubled people see beauty in their collapsing world. This photo begs people to let go of their daily struggles to go and take refuge in the enduring peace and wonder of nature. His passion for environmentalism was the driving force behind his work (Susan). He knew the impact of nature was enough to bring the world a little peace when it knew nothing but

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

Being greatly influenced by his first trip to Sierra, Adams life was coloured by the stunning view of pine trees and white waters creating the desire for him to learn photography. Adams quickly became aware of aesthetic qualities in nature, such as light, the movement in clouds and wind revealed in the wilderness and used them to his advantages to convey these moods. Adams believed a photograph was an expression of ones view, not just of the subject, but life. Adams life was filled with the expression of nature, “in the mountains, rivers, and valleys of the West he saw poetry, he saw truth, he saw wisdom, he saw grace. To Ansel, the terrain was so gorgeously caught by his lens was not just earth and sky, but spirit and vision.” With such compassion for nature Adam could easily express and represent his current feelings and moods within a photograph. Adams photography progressed beyond emotional experience, Adams furthered photography as an art. By creating the zone system Adams gave each shade of grey a specific value, allowing for a proper exposure and development for each black and white photo. Along with Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard Van Dyke, Adams created the group f/64, going against the pictorial style using a small aperture to capture photos with great detail and definition, formulating the revolutionary of straight photography. Allowing for

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.

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was a native of San Francisco. Throughout his childhood days, he often played in the sand dunes outside the Golden Gate. This is where he learned to appreciate nature, and it inspired him to use nature as his scenes for his photographs. He is known for preserving wilderness. He is viewed as an environmental legend and an image of the American West, particularly of Yosemite National Park. His first visit to Yosemite was in 1916.

Rodney Lough Jr is a photographer who loves to capture the natural world. Rodney was born on July 22, 1960 in Jacksonville, Florida. Rodney war twelve when he first received his very own camera and since then he loves to take photos. Rodney Lough Jr didn’t learn to take photos from anyone, he was self taught and he taught himself very well. His parents would take him hiking and camping when he was young. He went to college for some schooling but not for photography. After he finish schooling he got a steady job and a wife and four children. He continued to go camping, hiking and shooting wilderness photos with his wife and children with his spare time. On one trip he went to Colorado and saw this beautiful mountains that made him realize

He grew up in a sad home life, having parents who were not happy due to hard times. This made him a nervous child who had difficulty having relationships with anyone. His father knew he could not keep him in a typical school due to the amount of energy he had and how odd he was. His father rather got him a tutor for certain subjects and allowed him to roam and learn on his own. Also, he got him a year’s pass to the World’s Fair where Ansel was able to learn so much. He was able to pick up on piano so quick and commit his time into it.

Throughout the remainder of his life he went on to become involved with helping improve wilderness and parks, specificity Yosemite. He was elected into the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club in 1934, a position he kept for 37 years. On top of being involved with bettering the earth his artistic career improved. His photographs were first used for environmental purposes by the Sierra Club and continued to grow from there(History: Ansel Adams). He married Virginia Best in 1928 then had his first child, a boy named Michael, in 1933, followed by a daughter named Annie born two years later. His life continued to grow from there until 1983 when he was confined to bed for 4 whole weeks for the removal of cancer in his leg. He ended up dying a year

Adams felt a sense of duty to share his knowledge of nature and photography. “…[Adams] was master teacher as well as a master photographer” (Schaefer, 1992). He wrote many books and taught students his art. Adams technical ability in the darkroom was magical. He set the standard for black and white printing. His discriminating taste and meticulously produced prints continue to amaze current generations twenty-five years after his death. Adams was an experimenter and a modernist with his camera.

For some, a picture is just a beautiful work of art, but for Lewis Hine photography was a way to communicate a message to the world. When Hine was taught the photographic process, it was still being established. This being said, photojournalism was also just evolving as a method to visually communicate information. In an effort to better his photography skills, Hine began to photograph the immigrants of Ellis Island. He was very adamant about social reform and reflected this in his work. Lewis Hine’s captivating photos inspired social change in America for the less fortunate.

This essay will investigate the work of contemporary photographer Tim Walker, and historical photographer Ansel Adams. This essay will examine the many changes of how photography has evolved through the decades from the photographer’s style, use of equipment, techniques and what photography is used for. These changes will be seen by looking at the contemporary photographer and comparing them to the historical photographer.

Ansel Adams was an established American landscape photographer, known best for his black-and-white photos of the American West, when he was asked by his personal friend Ralph Merritt to “document” the Manzanar War Relocation Center, who was the director of the camp (slate.com) This career move from landscape to capturing personal, human moments was a risk, but it was a risk that paid off. Adams was able to publish his photo series, unlike other famed Manzanar photographer Dorthea Lange, in a book titled Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center which was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera and circulated mostly in the United States before Adams donated the book and all the photos to the Library of Congress in 1965 (CITATION).Dorthea Lange was hired by the U.S. War Relocation Authority to take pictures of the camp in Inyo County, California before Ansel Adams to show a humane aspect of these camps. (npr.org) Unlike Adam’s photos, Lange’s photos were not allowed to be published and were actually seized by the government because they depicted a dusty, desolate wasteland where everyone seemed inconsolably depressed whereas Adam’s pictures were mostly portraits and snapshots of everyday life. (npr.org) Lange photos were on display in early 2016 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California as part of an exhibit that featured Adam’s photos was well as the photos of Toyo Miyatake who was a Japanese-American photographer