Ansel Adams Biography

Ansel Adams is a famous photographer who was born February 20, 1902 he was

born in the city San Francisco, California. Ansel had his mother Olive and father

Charles had him and two siblings named Anne and Micheal Adams. He has had

Quite an interesting childhood, in a terrible earthquake Ansel had really bad

that left him permanently scared he has a broken nose at the age of 4 he

struggled to breathe for sometime. And growing up he actually wanted to

become a pianist and he started to play at the age of 12, he did this for 6 years

and had an official concert at the age of 18. He is later on fell in love with

Photography is what is very important about the work of the Yosemite National

Park. He was able to promote conservation of the wilderness, and his

very amazing black and white images to establish photography in the Fine

Arts. Known for making photographs showed him way to develop the Zone

system with Fred Archer. Also the resolution of these photographs ensured

sharpness to his images. Because of that work he had done in 1934 he had been

elected to the club's board of directors and was well established as both an artist

of Nevada and the defender of Yosemite. Ansel’s first acknowledged photo was

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome which was in 1927. He even opened his own

gallery in 1933. Developed the zone system for developing film in 1941. He has

done so many amazing things throughout his career. He received the John Muir

award in 1963. AppAdams was an unremitting activist for the cause of wilderness

and the environment. Over the years he attended innumerable meetings and

wrote thousands of letters in support of his conservation philosophy to

newspaper editors, Sierra Club and Wilderness Society colleagues, government

bureaucrats, and politicians.pointed to President Johnson's environmental task

force in 1965. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980 which was

quite impressive. A quote that is really inspiring and really great he once said

that "There are always two people in every picture:Photographer and the viewer

", Said by Ansel Adams. Out of all the things he said really stood out to me,

because it's really metaphorical from an artistic point of view.

Some of his amazing photographs