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Ansel Adams. COM 241 Photography I. Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Born in San Francisco, Early interest in music and the piano Wanted to be concert pianist In 1916 he took his first photographs of the Yosemite Valley at age 14 Knew then wanted to be photographer.
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Ansel Adams COM 241 Photography I
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) • Born in San Francisco, • Early interest in music and the piano • Wanted to be concert pianist • In 1916 he took his first photographs of the Yosemite Valley at age 14 • Knew then wanted to be photographer
founded Group f/64 • With several other California-based photographers, notably Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham • “For Adams, the f/64 philosophy embodied an approach to perfect realization of photographic vision through technically flawless prints.”
Ansel Adams Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley c. 1927
Ansel Adams Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California c. 1927
Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1938
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park,1942 or earlier
Lake MacDonald, Glacier National Park 1942
The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming 1942
Close-up of leaves, from directly above, "In Glacier National Park," Montana (1942)
Winter Sunrise, the Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944
Mount Williamson - the Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1945
Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947
Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point. 15 September, 1948
Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1948
Ansel Adams Bridalveil Fall ca 1952
Ansel Adams Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley 1960
El Capitan Winter, Sunrise,Yosemite National Park, California, 1968