Essay about ansel adams

people. This was almost like a new way of photography, but it was another way to do fine art

This essay will investigate the work of contemporary photographer Tim Walker, and historical photographer Ansel Adams. This essay will examine the many changes of how photography has evolved through the decades from the photographer’s style, use of equipment, techniques and what photography is used for. These changes will be seen by looking at the contemporary photographer and comparing them to the historical photographer.

For fun, Harry played golf regularly and he played it well. What he liked about golf was the challenge it had while in the game. By 1938, Harry stopped playing golf and began to pursue photography. At the time he had bought his very first camera, he didn’t know much about photography and taking pictures. Later on it would be the famous photographer, Ansel Adams, who would pave the way for Harry’s amazing photographs. It was when Ansel Adams came to Detroit for a workshop, all of his photographs and the passion they portrayed caught

This picture was taken in the winter after heavy rain and snow, in the Yosemite National Park. Ansel Adams practicing his camera settings really paid off because you can clearly see the details in the

The evolution of photography, from the very beginning to the modern technology we have today, is largely due to a few select specialists that took the matter into their own hands. Many discoveries were made about photography during the late 1800’s and into the 1900’s, but none greater than the discoveries of Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams made a huge impact on photography because of his technological advances, environmental work, and how he won the hearts of many with his beautiful works of art.

Adams’s first camera was a Kodak Box Brownie, which he received as a gift from his parents in 1916. While on a family trip to Yosemite National Park, he made

     In the 1880’s, Eakins purchased his first camera during the summer. He had used photographs from the other sources as aids for his painting in the 1870’s, but the acquisition of his own camera inspired a period of intensive investigation of photography as a tool for making art. Eakins made scores of photographs as studies for a group of major paintings, among them Mending the Net, Swimming, and Cowboys in the Bad Lands. He also told students in his academy to take pictures to help them.

Other photographers like Weston and Strand would often consult Adams for technical advice. He served as a photographic advisor to Polaroid and Hasselblad. He developed the famous and complex “zone system” of controlling exposure and development, allowing photographers to creatively visualize an image and create a photograph that matched their visualization. He published the most influential books ever written on the subject. Adams’s energy and capacity for work was astonishing. In his life, there were no such things as vacations, holidays, or Sundays. Adams described himself as a photographer, lecturer and writer. He would constantly travel the country in search of the natural beauty he admired and photographed. Adams felt a strong commitment to encourage photography as a fine art and played a vital role in the creation of the first museum department of photography, at the Museum of Modern Art in New

Edward Weston was seen as one of the leading pioneers of photography in the 20th century. His contribution to the world of photography is one that was able to bring new possibilities to the field. His style of photography was unique to him at the time and offered the art community very original works of art. This style of Weston’s was one of high resolution and clarity, though it did not come until midway in his career. Weston would soon collaborate with other artists that shared his tastes to form the f/64 group. Before becoming the world renowned photographer, Weston started as a humble and novice photographer (Edward Weston).

William Turnage mentioned that Adam described himself as a “photographer, lecturer and writer” (Turnage). Adam had a great passion with nature and you could really see it through all his works. Capturing different wilderness

Adams felt a sense of duty to share his knowledge of nature and photography. "…[Adams] was master teacher as well as a master photographer" (Schaefer, 1992). He wrote many books and taught students his art. Adams technical ability in the darkroom was magical. He set the standard for black and white printing. His discriminating taste and meticulously produced prints continue to amaze current generations twenty-five years after his death. Adams was an experimenter and a modernist with his camera.

As early as mid-nineteenth century, astute observers were anticipating the consequences of the Graphic Revolution. Before the Civil War, a young Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in The Atlantic Monthly that the advent of photography would separate form from reality. He said the “image would become more important than the object itself, and would in fact make the object disposable.”3

Photographers documented the building of the transcontinental railroad, scenic landscapes, and socio-geographic changes brought about from building railroads, mining stations, and other land developments of that time. William Henry Jackson photographed various portions of scenery along the Union Pacific railroad, the Yellowstone River and Yellowstone region in Wyoming and Montana, as well as portions of the Rocky Mountains (Bossen, 1982; Hales, 1988; Handy, 2001; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, n.d.b.). John K. Hillers made photographs of the land around the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon (Getty Museum, n.d.; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, n.d.b.). Andrew J. Russell photographed the eastern portion of the Union Pacific railroad, including Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, Promontory and Utah territory, and parts of the Rocky Mountains (Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, 2012). Carleton Watkins is best known for his photographs of Yosemite Valley, and parts of California and Oregon (Alinder, 1996; Anderson, 2011; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology,

With both art and nature driving and having an enormous influence throughout American society, Ansel Adams preserves the beauty of natural parks by capturing the mood and atmosphere for the public. His role as an enviourentalist as well as photographer has allowed him to represent nature through a non-materialistic, indefinable mystique. Similar to Adams, The Hunt institute concentrations focuses on the characteristics of botany history while providing research and documentation of plant science. Adam used the atmosphere of the natural environment around him to represent varieties of design and form while preserving and displaying the unseen wonders of nature.

This group embodies the concepts of Ansel Adams, and this is what was so distinctive about his work. The realization of photographic vision through technically flawless prints was an approach that Ansel took in photography. But this did not stop experimentation that led him to the use of several large-formats and miniature cameras. to shed some light on the work of Adams, I should point out that he was deeply effected by the nature, especially by the Yosemite valley, and the four hundred mile long mountain range, called Sierra Nevada, where he kept coming back every summer, where he practiced climbing or just took long trips in which a great deal of photography was involved. During these summers, he developed an interest in conservation and was dedicated to record the splendid beauty of these valleys and mountain ranges. So the prominent factor in Ansel’s work was his love of nature, and the