ANSEL ADAMS

By Amber Molland- Allman

GENERAL INFORMATION

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California on the 20 TH February, 1902. He was an American Photographer and environmentalist and his black and white landscapes were widely reproduced on calendars and other products. As a young child we was placed into a private school and then placed into home schooling and at the age of 12, he was interested in piano. He spent four years under the guidance of Maria Butler and moved onto other teachers, one of them being composer Henry Cowell. His father bought him is first camera, a Kodak Brownie Box Camera. At the age of 17, he joined the Sierra Club, a group dedicated to protecting the wild places of the earth and was hired as the summer caretaker. Sadly he died in Monterey, California on the April 22, 1984 (aged 82).

PHOTOGRAPHY CAREER.

In 1927, he created his first portfolio in his new style. Between 1929 and 1942, his work was more matured and became more established. In 1940, he put together a pageant of photography, the most important and largest photography shop in the west to date. In 1952 he was one of the founders of the magazine Aperture. Adams published his fourth portfolio, What Majestic Word, in 1963, and dedicated it to the memory of his Sierra Club friend Russell Varian.

SOME OF HIS WORK