1. ANSEL ADAMS Today: 2019/5/17 1902-1984 26 slides PowerPoint on the Web
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2. His love of the natural world began early and became the most potent influence on his art.

3. At the age of 12, Ansel taught himself to play the piano and later worked as a concert pianist.
His love of music influenced his art throughout his life.

4. He visited Yosemite National Park at the age of 14 and was immediately taken by the beautiful natural landscape.
As an adult he returned there almost every year to photograph the National Park.

7. At the age of 25, he began taking photographs with his new camera and quickly became a famous photographer.
He realized that he could capture the emotion, spirituality, and wonder of nature with his camera.

9. By the 1940's, his landscape photography work was well known
By the 1940's, his landscape photography work was well known. He wrote a series of textbooks on photography that are still used today.

15. In the 1970's, he traveled through Arizona and fell in love with the landscape. Many of his later photo-graphs were taken of Arizona scenes.

20. In 1980 Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas.

25. More than any other influential American of his epoch, Adams believed in both the possibility and the probability of humankind living in harmony and balance with its environment.

26. He was instrumental in founding several photographic organizations and helped to establish photography as a respected art form. He died in
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