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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams. By Kris Mather Ron Otwori Doug Tichensky. My Father. Biographical Facts. Born February 20, 1902 Father Charles H. Adams Mother Olive Bray San Francisco California Died April 22, 1984 Monterey, CA Married in 1928 Virginia Best Two children. Nevada Fall, Rainbow.

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Ansel Adams

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  1. Ansel Adams By Kris Mather Ron Otwori Doug Tichensky

  2. My Father Biographical Facts • Born February 20, 1902 • Father Charles H. Adams • Mother Olive Bray • San Francisco California • Died April 22, 1984 • Monterey, CA • Married in 1928 • Virginia Best • Two children

  3. Nevada Fall, Rainbow Education • Educated by tutors • Attended private school • Eighth grade • Learned to read music • Played the piano • Learned basic darkroom technique

  4. The Early Years • Father gave him his first camera • Brownie box camera by Kodak • Joined the Sierra Club • At age 17 • First photos published in 1921 • Contracted first portfolio, 1927 • New style • Included famous Monolith (right)

  5. El Capitan The Early Years Continued • First exhibition, 1931 • Smithsonian Institution • Featured 60 prints • From the High Sierra • Named editor, US Camera, 1939 • Completed children’s book, 1940 • Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley, 1941

  6. The Bedpan, Edward Weston Other Photographers • Worked with Paul Strand • Pursue with all his talent and energy • use glossy paper rather than matte • Intensifies tonal values • Also worked with photographers • Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans • Social obligation to reveal the harsh times of the Depression through their art and wilderness preservation • Co-founded Group f/64 • Edward Weston • Willared Van Dyke • Imogen Cunningham

  7. Moon Over Half Dome Photographic Style • Pioneered the zone system • With Fred Archer • Technique for translating perceived light into specific densities on negatives and paper • Gives better control over finished photographs

  8. Tetons and the Snake River Photographic Style Continued • “Straight photography” • Clarity of lens emphasized • Final print gave no appearance of being manipulated in the camera or the darkroom • Black and White photos • American wilderness

  9. Valley View in Summer Influences “the splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious...One wonder after another descended upon us’’ Ansel Adams wrote upon his first view of the valley. Adams dedicated his Portfolio VI to fellow artists, Gottardo Piazzoni and Edward Weston, "who encouraged me in so many ways to observe the beauty of the world and challenged me to express and interpret it through the medium of photography.”

  10. The California Street Firehouse Photographic Contributions • Established the first college of photography at the California School of Fine Art • Help set up the first photographic art department of a museum at the Museum of Modern Art in 1940

  11. Still Life, San Francisco Commentary Abigail Foerstner wrote in the Chicago Tribune (Dec. 3, 1992), "did for the national parks something comparable to what Homer's epics did for Odysseus."

  12. Richard Kobayashi

  13. Sand Dunes

  14. Thundercloud, Unicorn Peak

  15. Mt. Williamson

  16. Wind Shaped Jeffrey Pine

  17. References • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams#Childhood retrieved on May 26, 2008 • http://www.sierraclub.org/ansel_adams/about.asp retrieved on May 26, 2008 • http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/adams.html retrieved on May 26, 2008 • http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/anseladams_biography2.html retrieved May 28, 2008 • http://www.artistsguilds.com/art/Ansel.htm. Ansel Adams. (n.d.). Retrieved May 29, 2008

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