Ansel Adams - Photographer

Born 1902 Passed 1984. Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco he is most famous for his landscape portraits of the numerous books that had been created on this subject and from his photographs. Early in his studies Ansel Adams dropped out of school, he became a pianist as well as a photographer. He did commercial photography for many years. His work has been used for all sorts of national parks. Ansel Adams is best known for his photographs of Half dome and his brilliant black and white photography that he’d use a large scale camera for.

He won grants to do his photography of the national parks (1944--58) by the Guggenheim. He was also a major part of the Sierra Club, he was an enviormentalist as well on their board. He is best known for his revolutionary nature photography. He was a visionary and it showed in his work. Most of his images were landscapes of the west, many in Yosemite.

 

 

 

Birds on a Beach Buy From Art.com Tetons And Snake River Buy From Art.com Oak Tree, Sunrise Buy From Art.com Mt. McKinley & Wonder Lake, 1947 (emb... Buy From Art.com El Capitan, Winter Sunris... Buy From Art.com Rose and Driftwood Buy From Art.com Pine Forest in Snow, Yose... Buy From Art.com Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yose... Buy From Art.com Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain, Yosemite... Buy From Art.com Birds on a Beach Buy From Art.com Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, From L... Buy From Art.com Pacific Vista Buy From Art.com Mt. McKinley Range Buy From Art.com Thunderheads Buy From Art.com Redwoods, Founders Grove Buy From Art.com Yosemite National Park Buy From Art.com Pinetrees, Seashore Buy From Art.com Pine Ridge, 1962 Buy From Art.com Our National Parks Buy From Art.com Moon and Half Dome, Yosem... Buy From Art.com

Ansel Adams also worked with the f/64 group and Edward Weston to develop zone exposure a new way to capture more with black and white photography. While in California he helped with the Friends of Photography. The purpose of the Sierra Club is to preserve the nature in this country and throughout the world and to enjoy it through hiking and other activities. Ansel Adams photographs became a great assistance to this effort. He became an environmentalist and worked strongly along with the goals of the Sierra Club to help preserve the national parks and his efforts, did in fact help to preserve national parks in the 1940’s in the United States.   Of his most famous works, his monolyth, the face of half dome done in 1927 was considered to be one of his all-time best pieces, as well as a piece he did called Rose and Driftwood in 1932. Please enjoy our photographs of Ansel Adams and enjoy the gallery and if you like, enjoy to purchase a painting and in doing this you will help support the arts. Thank you. Search:

 

We at EZMUSEUM.COM are always open to showcase painters and artists.  For online submissions please contact info@ezmuseum.com