Ansel Adams was one of the most important photographers of century XX. Recognized for its beautiful

	 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.

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

As Adams pursued his work in both art and conservation the various lines of his life were beginning to converge revealing both the unity and the disjunction of his ideas. 137 His impact was felt on both spheres of influence. Using modern techniques of mass communications, Adams brought a vision of idealized wilderness to a broad audience and linked the environmental movement with nationalism and a romantic view of nature. The sustained popularity of his photographs illuminates a continuing public fascination with the wilderness landscape as both a place of beauty and a symbol of national identity and ideals. (Pacific 42) Most leaders within the conservation movement continued to share his ideal assuming that economic growth and wilderness

I have decided to do my essay on one of Ansel Adams most famous photographs from his long and successful career titled Half Dome. The photograph of Half Dome medium of the photograph is black and white. Ansel Adams in my opinion is one of the greatest photographers of all time. I believe his photographs are a work of art. Ansel Adams was a true visual genius with a camera, he went to a location set up his camera and the end result was always perfect. When I look at a photograph that was taken by Ansel Adams I feel at ease. It is almost like taking a short vacation in front of a photograph. The way Ansel Adams uses black and white in his photographs is amazing to me. The one thing that amazes me the most about Ansel Adams is even

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.

In December of 1936, Adams is hospitalized for a chest infection and mononucleosis. Unfortunately, in June of 1937, a fire occurred in Adams’ darkroom at Yosemite. This fire destroyed one third of his earlier negatives of photos. A few of his friends helped him try to sort through the photos that did not get burned. Even though Adams did encounter multiple difficulties throughout his life, he managed to bounce back. Adams’ career did not go without some difficulties. Eventhough he did have to deal with such horrible things throughout his life, he managed to not only contribute various photos and ideals to society, but was also a significant person to many

Ansel Adams is a famous American photographer. He is well known for capturing images of the American West. Ansel was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. As a toddler Ansel was in “the great earthquake and fire of 1906” (Turnage). This caused him to break his nose and kept him a lasting mark all through his life. With having a broken nose and being shy while in school years Ansel was not successful with fitting in. But, “his father and aunt tutored him at home” (Turnage) helping him obtain a diploma from a private school. Growing up he lived “in a “house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate” (Turnage).

His classic black-and-white images helped establish his photography through the fine arts. He developed and sold his begining photographs at Best’s Studio in Yosemite Valley which people loved. His professional breakthrough followed the publication of his first portfolio, “Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras” which it included his famous photograph “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome.”

Ansel Adams was born in 1902 in San Francisco, California. He is considered the most important landscape photographer of the twentieth century. His artwork has increased in popularity ever since his death. Adams devoted his work to the country’s untouched fragments of wilderness, such as national parks and other protected areas in the American west. Adams was also very involved in the conservation movement. In 1906, an aftershock from one of the largest earthquakes to ever hit San Francisco Ansel was thrown to the floor and broke his nose. His father was a successful businessman that owned an insurance agency and a chemical factory. Ansel was self-conscious about his nose, just as any young child would be. As a young boy, Ansel enjoyed the outdoors and taking many long walks and exploring.

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.

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”-Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams is a well known photographer and environmentalist who helped to improve photography with his techniques, and passion for the subject. Despite his mother's disapproval of his passion, he still stuck through and followed his heart. He might not have impacted his mother's life, but he impacted the history of photography.

Since he liked nature so much, when he was fourteen he convinced his parents to take him to Yosemite National Park. After this vacation that his parents took him on was later the place where Ansel Adams went when he needed to get away from everything things and heal. Since he spent hours in Yosemite National Park he took note on some of the wonderful images of nature that he could photograph and displayed in his photography for others to see. After all of his hard work and dedication to working and showing the natural beauty of nature and trying to show people that Adams received acclaim for his Yosemite landmark pictures.

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

Ansel Adams photo Path, Muir Woods is an example of his passion to perserve nature. The majority of his photos are of landscapes and nature. Being an environmentalist he wanted his photos to be a representation of how he felt about nature as well as try to pass on this perservation passion to those