Name: Ansel Easton AdamsBorn: February 20, 1902Died: April 22, 1984Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Photographer and Conservationist
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) is an homage to the American landscape photographer and is renowned for its consistency in black and white photography in the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast on the print. Adams founded the Group f/64 along with several photographers such as Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. .
Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California of Charles Hitchcock and Olive Bray Adams Adams. In 1903, the family moved to a new home Seacliff neighborhood. The new house has beautiful scenery around Golden Gate and Marin Headlands. In 1906 a great earthquake rocked San Francisco. When Adams was a four-year-old who was thrown into a wall and broke his nose. Although doctors recommend that the condition of the bones of his nose could be restored, but it was never done. The result, Adams remained crooked nose for the rest of his life.
As a child, Adams was a hyperactive child and prone to illness. The most common is hypochondria. His father bought a three-inch telescope and Adams are excited to learn astronomy. After the death of grandfather Ansel and after the crisis of 1907, his father's business suffered great financial losses. Even in 1912 the Adams was totally broke. Adams even in his youth was dismissed from several private schools. His father finally decided to pull out of school in 1915 at age 12. Adams later was educated by private tutors, Aunt Mary, and by his own father.
Adams studied the self-taught piano at the age of twelve. Music became the main focus of this young man at a later date. Although he eventually quit the music world and move on to the world of photography, piano brought substance, discipline, and structure for youth is filled with flavor. In addition, the training of the sensitivity of the heart and the discipline as being a musician greatly affect its visual artistry. It can be seen in the writings and teachings.
Adams first visited Yosemite National Park in 1916 with his family. He had written that "The splendor of Yosemite is amazing, there is light everywhere" A new era begins this story. His father then gave him his first camera. A Kodak Brownie box camera. Throughout the experience that he took his first photographs with tremendous enthusiasm. Even tend to hyperactivity. In the same year he again visited Yosemite with a better camera and tripod.
In the following winter, he learned basic darkroom techniques and works part time for San Francisco photo finisher. Adams diligently read photography magazines, magazines and lots of camera club meeting and go into some of the photography and art exhibitions. Along a retired geologist and amateurornithologist Francis Holman, whom he called "Uncle Frank," he forged i plateau during summer and winter. Develop the stamina and skills required to shoot at high altitudes and in difficult weather conditions.
At age 17, Adams joined the Sierra Club, a group dedicated to preserving the natural wonders and resources dayaalam. Adams was hired to take care of all summer visitors at the Garden Valley, Leconte Memorial Lodge 1920-1924. Eventually he became a permanent member and served as director of his life. He was first elected as directors of the Sierra Club in 1934, and served for 37 years, until 1971.
Ansel Adams
His first photograph was published in 1921 and Best Studio began selling the print edition of the Yosemite photographs next year. Early photographs has been published showing the composition of the liver and sensitivity to tonal balance. In several letters and postcards sent to his family, Adams states dare to climb to a vantage point bold face the best and the worst thing he wanted to get a photo.
In mid-1920, Adams experimented with soft-focus, etching, Bromoil Process, and other techniques. Adams uses a variety of lenses to get different effects, although eventually the concept was eventually rejected pictorialism is still using a more realistic approach. Rely more heavily on sharp focus, enhance contrast, correct exposure, and darkroom work.
In 1927, Adams produced his first portfolio, entitled Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. This work produced several famous photographs such as Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, which was taken with his Korona camera using plate glass and dark red filter (to increase the tonal contrast). With sponsorship and support of Albert Bender, an art entrepreneur, Adams's first portfolio is fairly successful (getting almost $ 3.900), and then he accepted the task of shooting a commercial for a rich man who bought his portfolio.
Adams was married to Virginia in 1928. Between 1929 and 1942, Adams has become a mature photographer and his life has become more trips mapan.Dalam 60-year career, in 1930 was a very productive and full of experimental.
In 1933 Adams opened an art gallery and his own photography gallery in San Francisco. Adams also began to publish essays in photography magazines and wrote the first book Making a Photograph i 1935. During 1933, his first son Michael was born, followed by Anne two years later.
During the 1930's Adams spreading her pictures for the campaign for wilderness preservation. He was inspired by the growing forest in the neighborhood perisakan Yosemite Valley by commercial development, including the billiard room, bowling, golf and shops. He menerbitakn a limited edition book in 1938 titled, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, as part of efforts to secure the appointment of the Sierra Club Sequoia and Kings Canyon as national parks. This book and his testimony before Congress played a vital role in the success of the business park in 1940.
In 1935 made many many new photos from the Sierra and one of the most famous photograph is Clearing Winter Storm. This photo captures the image of the entire valley as a winter storm. In 1936 Adams collects the recent work and make a solo exhibition digaleri Stieglitz New York in 1936. This exhibition proved to work well with the response from critics and the number of people who buy. Until 1970, Adams is financially dependent on commercial projects. Some of his clients included Kodak, Fortune magazine, Pacific Gas and Electric, AT & T, and the Trust Company of America. In 1939, he was appointed editor of U.S. Camera, the most popular photography magazine at that time. In 1940, Ansel create an event A Pageant of Photography. Event photography is the most important and largest in the West until recently, attended by millions of visitors.
In 1974, Adams was the guest of honor at the Rencontres d'Arles Festival (France). Later that year, Adams made a large retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most of the time spent during the 1970 curatorial and negative prints back from the safe. Partly to meet the large demand from an art museum. He also devotes considerable writing skills to the environment. Even President Jimmy Carter commissioned Adams to make the first official portrait of the presidency.
In September 1983, Adams was lying sick in bed for four weeks after foot surgery to remove the tumor. Adams died on April 22, 1984, at a Hospital Monterey in Monterey, California, at age 82 from a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, two children, (Michael, born in August 1933, and Anne, born 1935) and five grandchildren. Archives of Ansel Adams's work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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