Ansel Adams

established as the artist of the Sierra Nevada
and the defender of Yosemite by the Sierra Club

published 226 photographs throughout many national parks, forests, landmarks, and mountain
ranges

Born February 20th 1902 in San Fransisco, California

natural shyness

solitary childhood

led to his interest in nature and photography

minimal education

Sense of motion yet is so tranquil and calm

Reminds me of my childhood at the beach

No people; gives a real sense of the scene itself

Sense of time

sense of long term changes in landscape

capturing an instant, also representing the instant as if its part of a timeless sequence

Ansel Adams' photography was an attempt to recapture happy moments of his youth.

Golden Gate

his life was "colored
and modulated by the
great earth gesture"

Adam' parents gave him
a Kodak No. 1 box Brownie

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"He hiked. climbed, and explored,
gaining self-esteem and self-confidence"

"Adams' was transfixed
and transformed"

"psychological experience of natural beauty"

nature hikes and photography was a
great memory from his childhood

my greatest childhoo memories are
all in photographs and the ones that
i have taken of friends, family, and
places that I have gone

Childhood

feelings of naiveness, carelessness

security, love, happiness

memories, captured on film

pictures bring me back to my
happy childhood memories that
I really cherish and hold close

I hope to become a much better
photographer so that I can capture
great moments of my adolescence

When I have children someday, I want
to be able to let them remember their
childhoods by lookind back at photographs
(although I'm sure there will be new,
extremely advanced technologies than those
that we use today)