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Comparison Of Ansel Adams's Life And Work

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Ansel Adams a photographer and environmentalist, was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. He was the grandson of a wealthy timber baron. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son. Charles Adams, on the other hand, deeply and patiently influenced, encouraged, and supported his son.
When Adams was only four, an aftershock of a great earthquake of 1906, threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. Due to a different …show more content…

His first published photographs and writings appeared in the club’s 1922 Bulletin, and he had his first one man exhibition in 1928 at the club’s San Francisco headquarters. In 1928, Ansel Adams married Virginia Best, the daughter of James Best, “a local painter”, who won the right to sell his work and the owner of Best Studios. Ansel Adams and Virginia had two children. Each summer the club conducted a month-long High Trip, usually in the Sierra Nevada, where up to two hundred member’s attended. . The participants hiked each day to a new and beautiful campsite accompanied by a large contingent of pack mules, packers, and cooks. As photographer of these outings, in the late 1920s, Adams began to realize that he can earn enough to survive, that he was far more likely to succeed as a photographer than as a concert pianist. By 1934 Adams had been elected to the club’s board of directors and was well established as both the artist of the Sierra Nevada and the defender of

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