Why Is Ansel Adams Important To Photography?

Ansel Adams dropped out of school in 1917 for his lack of interest in the education system. Since 1916, Adams started pursuing photography after a trip to Yosemite National Park which sparked his passion in the field of photography. Throughout his career, Adams published multiple books about photography and the function of the camera, along with many introduction manuals and tutorials such as “The camera”, “The Negative”, or “The Print” that served well as a guide to beginners and amateurs who are new to photography. Adams’ books can be mainly divided into two categories, first would be the technical books he wrote that consisted of his insight on photographic techniques collected from lifelong experience which introduced to the audience the basic and key concepts of photography; while the other, his photographic books, which were written to describe the environment and scenery in the images that he took. For instance, his book “Yosemite” was a collection of images he took in Yosemite National Park located in California, and in the book he would explain some of the details of how the picture was taken and why and etcetera. In addition to that, Adams also wrote a book named “California” which contained

Some of his most famous works include “Monolith, The Face of Half Dome” that was taken in 1927, “Rose and Driftwood” taken in 1932, and “Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico” in 1941, which captured the Moon rising over a village weeks before the Pearl Harbor incident. Adams won the Hasselblad Award in 1981 for being recognized as a photographer with major achievements, also making him the second person to ever win the Hasselblad Award. Adams starting gathering so much fame that to a point he even got to have awards named after him and later on in 1985 a mountain in the Inyo National Forest was renamed to Mount Ansel