Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams was born in 1902 in San Francisco, where he lived with his mother and his father. Throughout his life he became one of the best photographers known to time. And for sure one of the most well known. His specialties were western landscape photos, but throughout his photography career he took commercial photos and then gradually worked towards turning his love for landscape photos, into a profession.
In Ansel Adams lifetime he managed to be a spokes person, a very good pianist, and the most widely exhibited photographer of his generation.
Ansel Adams career started when he was inspired by his trip to Yosemite Park, after his parents bought him a camera he started taking photos are every chance he could get. He told his parents he wanted to “capture the beauty of nature”.
He became a well known pianist but that soon ended when he go one of his photographs acknowledged two years later. He soon won three Guggenheim grants to photograph national parks. Ansel Adams came up with zone exposure to get maximum tonal range from black and white film. He taught a Yosemite workshop “the U.S Camera Photographic Forum” with Edward Weston. A few years later he collaborated with Dorothea Lange on a life commission for a photo essay on the Mormons in Utah, Which took him over a year to complete. Later in his life he moved to Carmel, California where he helped in the foundation of the Friends of Photography. Ansel Adams died April 22nd in 1984 of heart failure aggravated by cancer. But his photos are still recognized today....