Authorship Purpose (grade 4) signature style of landscape photography

1. Ansel Adams • Authorship • Purpose (grade 4) • signature style of landscape photography 1 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/index.html

2. Ansel Adams’ Stated Purpose • Born Free and Equal "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.” “Through the pictures the reader will be introduced to perhaps twenty individuals…loyal American citizens who are anxious to get back into the stream of life and contribute to our victory.” 2

3. Born Free And Equal In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. 3 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/index.html

4. Born Free and Equal • Key Question #3: How might different people understand this message differently? • Core Concept #3: Different people experience the same media message differently. • Key Question #5: Why is this message being sent? • Core Concept #5: Media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power. • AH-HA!: Learning about the history of this picture changes the way I look at it! 4 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/index.html