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Ansel Adams

Photographer Ansel Adams was born on February 20,1902 in San Francisco, California to Charles Hitchcock Adams. Growing up he was diagnosed to be hyperactive and it's possible that he was also dyslexic which affected him and that caused t\for him to be home schooled by his dad and aunt. Later on he attended the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School and earned a "legitimizing diploma" that is basically like an eighth grade diploma. Growing up in nature helped him a lot once he begun focusing on photography. Teaching himself to play piano and read music was one of his hobbies where it grew to be a stronger desire to learn more and he winded up taking lessons and in the year 1920 it was the profession he wanted. The love he had for photography made him give up on playing the piano. Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie was one of the his first cameras given to him by his parents. In 1919 he went to the Sierra Club, the club where he met his wife, Virginia Best. The Sierra Club was also the one place where he got early success since he was the first to do a one man exhibition in 1928 at the San Francisco headquarters. In 1934 he was the Sierra Nevada artist as well as the defender of Yosemite. In the year 1927 he produced his First best photograph, the Monolith or otherwise known as The Face of Half Dome. Albert M. Bender was one of his important influences and with him he produced his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. As the reading said intensification and purification of the psychological experience of natural beauty is what came to Ansel Adams head when taking pictures that's one of the things I learned. The pictures he enjoyed the most were those of nature where he could capture the different types of beauty.

 

I chose this picture because of the black and white tones of color it has as well as the way the landscape is. You can see the different tones in the clouds and mountains.