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Ansel Adams (1902-1984)  

Aliases: Ansel E. Adams; Ansel Easton Adams
Professions: Photographer

About Ansel Adams Adams' Biography Examples of Adams' Work - 2,192 Literature on Adams - 20 Artfact 1,000™: Photography: 20th Century Related Artists: Group f.64 Related Artists: Photography Web Sources - 13 Marketplace for Ansel Adams Auction Price Records - 2,192 Auction Houses - 46 Alert Me about Adams

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(b San Francisco, CA, 20 Feb 1902; d Carmel, CA, 22 April 1984). American photographer. He trained as a musician and supported himself by teaching the piano until 1930. He became involved with photography in 1916 when his parents presented him with a Kodak Box Brownie camera during a summer vacation in Yosemite National Park. In 1917–18 he worked part-time in a photo-finishing business. From 1920 to 1927 he served as custodian of the LeConte ... (view more)

(b San Francisco, CA, 20 Feb 1902; d Carmel, CA, 22 April 1984). American photographer. He trained as a musician and supported himself by teaching the piano until 1930. He became involved with photography in 1916 when his parents presented him with a Kodak Box Brownie camera during a summer vacation in Yosemite National Park. In 1917–18 he worked part-time in a photo-finishing business. From 1920 to 1927 he served as custodian of the LeConte Memorial in Yosemite, the Sierra Club’s headquarters. His duties included leading weekly expeditions through the valley and rims, during which he continued to photograph the landscape. He considered his snapshots of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, taken during the early 1920s, to be a visual diary, the work of an ardent hobbyist. By 1923 he used a 61/2*81/2-inch Korona view camera on his pack trips, and in 1927 he spent an afternoon making one of his most famous images, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park (Chicago, IL, A. Inst.; see fig.). Adams planned his photograph, waited for the exact sunlight he desired and used a red filter to darken the sky against the monumental cliff. He later referred to this image as his ‘first true visualization’ of the subject, not as it appeared ‘in reality but how it felt to me and how it must appear in the finished print’ (Ansel Adams: An Autobiography , p. 76).  (hide)

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