Ansel Adams

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and development. In a letter written to his aunt, on September 28, 1923, he declared that from that day forward he would seek to achieve the highest standards of art in his work, without compromise and following purely photographic standards.
Though intrigued with photography, in 1925, he decides that he wants to become a concert pianist and purchases the finest piano available. Ansel continues to take photographs and in 1927 he makes the photograph, Moonlith, the Face of Half Dome. Within a month of making this image, his musical endeavors ceased, however, it would be years before he would permanently turn away from his early dreams of music.
Ansel continues pursuing his career in photography. In 1928, he marries Virginia Best in Yosemite. After working with American photographer Paul Stand and others in 1930, Ansel’s work began to develop the sharp focus characteristic that would later become his trademark. It was at this time that he publicly and whole-heartedly abandoned his musical career in favor of a career in photography. He moved to Yosemite in 1937 and later to Carmel, California.
Ansel Adams spent much of his life taking photographs in the ...