Ansel Adams By: Berenise Aguilar

Ansel Adams Biography Adams full name is Ansel Easton Adams he was born in Feb. 20 1902, Adams was born in San Francisco, California. He died April.22, 1984. Adams was the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, who was a businessman, and Olive Bray. Adams was the grandson of a wealthy timber baron When Adams was four, an aftershock on a great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, marking him for life. A year later Adams family fortune collapsed in 1907. When Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty years old. Adams mother spent most of her time brooding and fretting her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son.

Biography Con. Adams shyness and intensity of genius, couples with the dramatically “earthquake” nose, caused Adams to have problems fitting in at school. Later in life noted he might have been diagnosed as hyperactive. He had also thought that there was a possibility that he may have suffered from dyslexia. Adams was not successful in various schools to which his parents had sent him, constantly his father and aunt would tutored him at home. Adams ultimately managed to earn what he termed a “legitimizing diploma” from Mrs. Kate m. Wilkins private school. The most important result of Adams’s somewhat solitary and unmistakably different childhood was the joy he had found in nature. Nearly everyday Adams found himself hiking the dunes or meandering along Lobos Creek, down to Baker Beach, or out to the very edge of the American continent. When Adams was twelve he taught himself how to play the piano and read music, soon he was taking lessons, the ardent pursuit of music of music became his substitute for formal schooling. The next dozen years the piano was his primary occupation and by 1920, his intended profession. Although he gave up piano for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth.

More Biography Adams’s love of nature was nurtured in the Golden Gate, his life, and his words, “colored and modulated by the great earth gesture” of the Yosemite Sierra, in Nevada. He spent substantial time there every year from 1916 until his death. From his first visit, Adams was transfixed and transformed. He began using Kodak No.1 Box Brownie his parents had given him. When he had his first camera he hiked and climbed, explored and gained self-esteem and confidence. In 1919 he joined the Sierra Club and spent the first of four summers in Yosemite Valley, as “keeper” of the club’s LeConte Memorial Lodge. Adams became friends with many of the club leaders , who were founders of the America’s nascent conservation movement. Adams meet his wife Virginia Best, in Yosemite, whom were married in 1928, they had who children.

Ansel Adams and photography Ansel Adams was in a club called The Sierra Club, which was vital to his success as a photographer. First Published Photographs and writings appeared in the club’s 1922 Bulletin. He had his first exhibition in 1928 at the club’s in San Francisco headquarters. Each summer the club conducted a month log field trip, usually in the Sierra Nevada, which attracted up to two hundred members. As a photographer of these outgoings, in the late 1920s, Adams began to realize that he could earn enough to survive, and that he was far more likely to prosper as a photographer than as a concert pianist.

A photographers beginning By 1934 Adams 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 Yosemite. 1927 Adams made his first fully visualized photography, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, and took his firs high trip. Adams came under the influence of Albert M. Bender, a San Francisco insurance magnate and patron of arts and artists. The day after they met, bender set in motion the preparation and publication of Adams first portfolio., Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. Bender’s friendship, encouragement, and tactful financial support changed Adams life dramatically. After meeting Albert Bender, Adams began to pursue “straight photography” After Starting his career as a professional photographer he met many famous photographers.

Adams Photography This is a picture of the main entrance of a destroyed church that has been there for many years. This photography was taken in 1942 at Taos Pueblo.

Close up leaves This is a picture of a bunch of leaves, this picture is interesting because it shows a lot of detail of the leaf. This picture was taken in the Glacier National Park in 1942.

McDonald Lake This picture show a large lake and a big dark black cloud over it which shines on the water. This picture was taken at the Glacier National Park in 1942 at the Mc Donald Lake.

The Tetons This picture shows mountains and a long river. This picture was taken in 1942, it was taken at a place called The Tetons and the river is called the snake river.

Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams http://www.anseladams.com/anseladams_biography_s/51.htm