2. Childhood
• Born February 20, 1902 in S.F
• Irish descendant parents
• Mother was from Baltimore
• Father inherited a lumberjack business
• Broke his nose at the age of 4
• They lose a lot of money next year
The Golden Gate Before the Bridge, San Francisco, California, ca. 1932
3. Teenage Years
• Age 12- He is taken out from
school
• Ansel teaches himself to play the
piano
•Age 13 -his father got him a pass
to the Panama Pacific Exposition
• 15- Yosemite Book
•16- He Finally convinced his
parents to visit Yosemite
•Kodak Box Brownie
Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite ,1933
9. Bibliography
• Adams, Ansel, Harry M. Callahan, John Paul Schaefer, and Andrea Gray. Stillman. Ansel Adams in
Color. New York: Little, Brown and, 2009. Print
• Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film. Consultant. John Szarkowski. Perf. Michael Adams, Mary
Street Alinder, Anne Adams Helms, Carl Pope, Alan Ross, John Sexton, Jonathan Spaulding,
Andrea Gray Stillman, John Szarkowski, William A. Turnage,.Adams: A Documentary Film. PBS, n.d.
Web. Apr. 2013
•Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000. Print.
•Adams, Ansel, and William A. Turnage. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. New York: Little,
Brown and, 2006. Print.
•“ Ansel Adams." 2013. The Biography Channel website. A&E Networks Television. n.d. Web. 11
April , 2013
Editor's Notes
Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome – 19402. Mauna Kea de Mauna Loa, Hawaii, 19483. Banner Peak and Thousand Island Lake, 19424. Late evening, Monument Valley, Utah, c. 1950.
*Ansel Adams was an only child, born to Irish descendant parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. *Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son. Charles Adams, on the other hand, deeply and patiently influenced, encouraged, and supported his son.*During the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, four-year-old Ansel Adams was thrown face-first into a wall during an aftershock three hours after the initial disaster, breaking his nose. Although a doctor recommended that his nose be re-set, Adams never followed up, and as a result, his nose remained crooked throughout his life.
His dad always supported him, even paying for classes and expensive tutors including Henry Cowell the book was by the main supporter of the Yosemite Jam. M. Hutchings. About the Indians.. American…
He taught himself everything he needed to know. He first experimented with pictorialism. (left)a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. His first photograph was published in the Sierra club Bulletin. He was still planning to become a pianist. Right 1927, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, first time he makes his own style
Ansel abandons his musical career. It was the first publication of a portfolio of his prints, produced not long after he decided to become a professional photographer, and has since been called "a landmark work in twentieth-century photography.PublisherJean Chambers Moore. term "parmelian" was a meaningless word invented by Moore, who believed that calling them "photographic prints" would not allow them to be taken seriously as art.18 prints
1932 – 1935Wanted to establish a new type of photographing. “Straight Photography” 7 San Francisco photographershe term f/64 refers to a small aperture setting on a large format camera, which secures great depth of fieldStraight photography
Clearing Winter Storm, 1935He created a limited-edition book in 1938, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, as part of the Sierra Club's efforts to secure the designation of Sequoia and Kings Canyon as national parks. This book and his testimony before Congress played a vital role in the success of the effort, and Congress designated the area as a National Park in 1940.Eventually became director of the Sierra Club, but left post after a year.,
As part of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, Adams photographed every National Park in the United States.Adams's photograph 'The Tetons and the Snake River' was one of 115 images recorded on the Voyager Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft, which was launched in 1977.President Jimmy Carter commissioned Adams to make the first official portrait of a president that took the form of a photograph. Presidential Medal of Freedom First American Exhibit since communism in National Museum of Beijing Eventually died of cardiovascular disease. Congress passes legislation designating more than 200,000 acres of land near Yosemite as the Ansel Adams Wilderness Area
