Ansel Easton Adams: A Career In Photography

Ansel Adams was a masterful photographer and a lifelong conservationist (a person who works to preserve and protect the environment) who encouraged understanding of, and respect for, the natural environment. Although he spent a large part of his career in commercial photography, he is best known for his photographs of landscapes. Ansel Easton Adams, the only child of Charles Hitchcock and Olive Bray Adams, was born on February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California, near the Golden Gate Bridge.At age twelve Adams began playing the piano. He was serious about music and decided to pursue it as a career. But he was also interested in photography. A family trip to Yosemite National Park in 1916, where he made his first amateur photos, is said to

His first important one-man show was held in San Francisco in 1932 at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum.Adams went on to open the Ansel Adams Gallery for the Arts. He also taught, lectured, and worked on advertising assignments in the San Francisco area. During the 1930s he also began his extensive publications on methods of photography, insisting throughout his life on the importance of careful craftsmanship. In 1936 Alfred Stieglitz(1864–1946) gave Adams a oneman show in his New York gallery—only the second time the work of a young photographer was exhibited by Stieglitz.In 1937 Adams moved to Yosemite Valley close to his major subject and began publishing a stream of volumes, including Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (1938), Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1940), Yosemite and the High Sierra (1948), and My Camera in Yosemite Valley (1949). In 1930 Adams met the famous photographer Paul Strand (1890–1976) while they were working in Taos, New Mexico, and the man and his work had a lasting effect on Adams 's approach to

Strand encouraged Adams to change his approach from a soft expression of subjects to a much clearer, harder treatment, so-called "straight photography." The best photos that he take it during his life: “Canyon de Chelly”,” Rose and Driftwood”,”Mount Williamson”,”Tetons and the Snake River”,” Cathedral Peak and Lake”, this the most popular pictures,but he still had a lot of amazing pictures. Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984. During his life he was criticized for photographing rocks while the world was falling apart. He responded by suggesting that "the understanding of the … world of nature will aid in holding the world of man together." The best photos that he took them : Pine Cone and Eucalyptus Leaves, San Francisco, California, 1932, Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947, 1948., Foam, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, California, 1951.Dead Tree, Dog Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933,Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927,Oak Tree; Sunset City, Sierra Foothills,El Capitan, Winter, 1948,Thunderhead from Glacier Point,Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada,Tetons and Snake River,Rails and Jet Trails, Roseville, California, 1953. He had a lot of wonderful