Famous Photographers Series - Part 4 - Ansel Adams
Famous Photographers Series - Part 4 - Ansel Adams
This is the fourth of a series I am posting about famous photographers, and displaying examples of their accomplishments. The first three, which are still available by clicking on the Forums title, then the Photography & Art title and then scroll down, are about Yousef Karsh, one of the world's greatest portrait photographers, Alfred Stieglitz, who established photography as a classic art form, and Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer and photojournalist whose works graced the cover of LIFE Magazine's first issue and another 19 of them.
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, books, and the internet.
Adams and Fred Archer developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. He primarily used large-format cameras because the large film used with these cameras (primarily 5x4 and 8x10) contributed to sharpness in his prints.
Adams founded the photography group known as Group f/64, along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. (Wikipedia)
As a photographer Ansel Adams' name is so well known and he did so much not only for photography but also for the environment and preservation of wilderness (he caused two national parks to be declared) that it would fill too many pages if I were to describe his accomplishments. Anyone who is interested in knowing more of his story can read this short biography:
https://www.biography.com/people/ansel-adams-9175697
1. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico - This has been considered one of his most iconic photos.
2. Church - one of his Peublo series
3. The billowing clouds makes this one of my favourite Ansel Adams photographs.
4. The Tetons, and the Snake River
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7. Yosemite Valley
8. Half Dome, Mercel River, Winter, Yosemite
9. Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite. This photo has been considered the one that started him off on the road to be a great photographer.
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13. Oak Tree on Snowdon. He did a number of photos of trees.
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17. This one is tinted, rather than a colour photo.
18. However, he also did colour photos, although he is more famous for his Black & White ones.
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22. A couple of his photos of flowers and a butterfly.
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25. He took photos of many mansions and other buildings.
26. He used some of his darkroom technique to produce this photo.
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29. Ooops. I left this one out of the tree examples.
30. He spent time at Manzanar, a WWII intern camp for Japanese Americans.
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32. Removed. I mistook the photo for one taken by Ansel Adams, but it was actually taken by Dorothea Lange and is added as a comment to the photo-essay I posted about her.
33. He took portraits at the Manzanar camp.
3 4. What a sweetheart. I think it's obvious that I adore Asian women.
35. Yes, he's a member of the American Armed forces during WWII.
3 6. Photos taken in Los Angeles.
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38. I don't think it would be possible for anyone with a camera to pass by this without taking a picture of it.
39. A great shot of facial expressions
40. And I leave you with this - Farewell, Ansel Adams, R.I.P.
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Most people consider Ansel Adams to be a photographer of national parks and wilderness in black and white. However, as you can see here, and this just a tiny taste of his work, that he is much more diversified than that.
Magnificent
Amazing collection of my favorite photographers work (not counting Mac). Many of these I have never seen before. Thanks Buzz!
These are wonderful in the digital formation. I can imagine the originals are really beautiful, not to mention actually being one of the photographers view.
I might have made a mistake with photo number 32, the sold grocery store with the I AM AN AMERICAN sign. It may actually have been taken by Dorothea Lange.
Whoever took the photo, it's a kick in the stomach to many.
Dorothea Lange, Oakland, California, March 1942. (via Library of Congress). Original WRA caption: A large sign reading “I am an American” placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war.
I got it from here ......
Also shown here in restored condition...
The photo was mixed in with a collection of Ansel Adams' photos, and since he did a series on Manzanar (the internment camp for Japenese Americans) I assumed it was his photo. I am able to udate the article so I will remove it, and put it as a comment on my photo essay on Dorothea Lange (with apologies).
I hope you can see these Buzz.
I believe all or most of these are Ansel Adams photos.
I can't open the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th or 9th photos. I thought the 5th photo,of the fields being worked on was a Dorothea Lange photo, and if I'm wrong I posted it by mistake on my Dorothea Lange article.
5th Photo...
Japanese Internees at Manzanar War Relocation Center,
Owens Valley, California, 1943.
Photograph by Ansel Adams
(Source: Ansel Adams Manzanar Collection, Library of Congress )
I got it from here .....
It's amazing how similar that is to Dorothea Lange's photo that I posted as number 13 on the photo-essay I just did of her work. However, you will note in that one that it is different and there are no mountains.
The 4th photo posted by sixpick just opened for me. What an amazing sky.
It's amazing how similar that is to Dorothea Lange's photo that I posted as number 13 on the photo-essay I just did of her work. However, you will note in that one that it is different and there are no mountains.