Ansel Adams Posters and photography.

Ansel Adams was that rare artist who cared deeply for man and Earth, for a reality beyond himself, expressing these feelings in his art and his actions. Throughout his long and prolific career, Ansel Adams created a body of work which has come to exemplify not only the purist approach to the medium, but to many people the definitive pictorial statement on the American western landscape. He was also strongly associated with a visionary sense of the redemptive beauty of wilderness and the importance of its preservation. The prestige and popularity of his work has been enhanced by the extraordinary technical perfection of his photography and his insistence on absolute control of the photographic processes. Ansel Adams was totally passionate about planet Earth. It was as if he was created directly from the California soil. He had been a sickly child, but upon his arrival in Yosemite at the age of 14, he grew healthy. He returned year after year. Taking to the trails of the High Sierra for weeks at a time, he thrived on the brilliant blue skies, pure mountain air and gleam of glacial-polished granite. Later in life he would venture to eastern America only to be slowly diminished in soul and spirit, regaining himself again as he entered the Rockies, for him the true beginning of the American West. Through a long and rich life, he concentrated his picture making upon a few, most favored landscapes: Yosemite and its surround Sierra, California, the American southwest and Alaska. Ansel Adams is best known as the consummate artist who gave Yosemite full expression. To record their 1916 vacation, his parents gave the fourteen year old his first camera, a simple Kodak Box Brownie. The rapport between Adams, camera and Yosemite was immediate. He returned to Yosemite every summer, soon spending as much of the year there as in his hometown, San Francisco. Photography and Yosemite, always together and never apart, evolved from hobby to job to becoming the point upon which he centered. Over many years of dedicated work, Adams learned as complete a technical mastery of the medium as possible, combining superb technique with a natural eye for composition and a soul devoted to beauty and the American landscape. At first, photographing objects -- a mountain, a waterfall -- his vision of Yosemite soon expanded to include the larger landscape, creating private worlds. Confined at first to photographing his surround, San Francisco, Yosemite and the Sierra, Ansel began traveling and photographing a larger world in 1926. His first trips were to Carmel, then in 1927 to Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, discovering places that he returned to again and again. He could only photograph what he came to fluently know. Rarely would he achieve a successful image on his first visit. Five trips to New Mexico by 1930 resulted in his first book, Taos Pueblo. With the arrival of World War II, Adams went to Washington, D.C., where he worked as a photomuralist for the Department of the Interior. During this time he began to develop a codification of his approach to exposure, processing, and printing - the zone system. In effect, this system aimed at previsualization of the final print from a given set of conditions. Much of our understanding of the beauty and importance of the American wilderness comes from the great images of Ansel Adams, many of his acknowledged icons were made in the 1940s. These grand landscapes, spiritual, yet in touch with the earth, include such masterpieces as, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, The Tetons and the Snake River, 1942, Winter Sunrise, 1943, and Mount Williamson from Manzanar, California, 1945. In each of his images Adams aimed to modulate the range of tones from rich black to whitest white in order to achieve perfect photographic clarity. He also developed a knowledge of the techniques of photographic reproduction to assure that the quality of any reproduced work might approach as closely as possible the standard of the original print.

Adams, Ansel American, 1902-1984 Throughout his long and prolific career, Ansel Adams created a body of work which has come to exemplify not only the purist approach to the medium, but to many people the definitive pictorial statement on the American western landscape. He was also strongly associated with a visionary sense of the redemptive beauty of wilderness and the importance of its preservation. The prestige and popularity of his work has been enhanced by the extraordinary technical perfection of his photography and his insistence on absolute control of the photographic processes. Born in San Francisco, Adams manifested an early interest in music and the piano, an interest which he initially hoped to develop into a professional career. In 1916 he took his first photographs of the Yosemite Valley, an experience of such intensity that he was to view it as a lifelong inspiration. He studied photography with a photofinisher, producing early work influenced by the then prevalent pictorialist style. Each summer he returned to Yosemite where he developed an interest in conservation. These trips involved exploration, climbing and photography, and by 1920 he had formed an association with the Sierra Club. In 1927 his first portfolio was published, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. In 1928 he married Virginia Best and began to work as an official photographer for the Sierra Club. His decision to devote his life to photography was influenced by his strong response to the straight photography of Paul Strand, whom he met in 1930. Adams's first important one-man show was held in 1931 at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, and in the same year his work was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. The following year Adams and several other California-based photographers, notably Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, founded Group f/64. For Adams and Weston especially, the f/64 philosophy embodied an approach to perfect realization of photographic vision through technically flawless prints. Despite this, Adams never decried experimentation as such, and he himself used a variety of large-format and miniature cameras. After meeting with Alfred Stieglitz in 1933, he began a gallery in San Francisco, the Ansel Adams Gallery. The first of his books dealing with the mastery of photographic technique, Making a Photograph, was published in 1935. Meanwhile, Adams had impressed Stieglitz so much that an important one-man exhibition of his work was shown at An American Place in 1936. During the following two years Adams moved into the Yosemite Valley and made trips throughout the Southwest with Weston, Georgia O'Keeffe, and David McAlpin. His photographs accompanied the 1938 publication of Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Having met Beaumont and Nancy Newhall in New York in 1939, the following year Adams, along with McAlpin, assisted in the foundation of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). With the arrival of World War II, Adams went to Washington, D.C., where he worked as a photomuralist for the Department of the Interior. During this time he began to develop a codification of his approach to exposure, processing, and printing - the zone system. In effect, this system aimed at previsualization of the final print from a given set of conditions. Work from a wartime photo essay on the plight of interned Japanese-Americans was exhibited at MOMA in 1944 under the title Born Free and Equal. During 1944-1945, Adams lectured and taught courses in photography at the museum. This teaching was followed by the establishment of one of the first departments of photography at the California School of Fine Arts (later the San Francisco Art Institute) in 1946. Following his award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1948 to photograph national park locations and monuments, there were five productive years of important photographic work. The first of numerous portfolios, Portfolio 1: In Memory of Alfred Stieglitz, was issued in 1948, and in the same year he began to publish technical volumes in the Basic Photo Series. Throughout 1950 he made trips to Hawaii, Alaska, and Maine, and in that year Portfolio 2: The National Parks and Monuments was issued. In 1953 he collaborated with Dorothea Lange on a Life commission for a photo essay on the Mormons in Utah, and in 1955 he began a photography workshop in Yosemite. Portfolio 3: Yosemite Valley was published by the Sierra Club in 1960. In each of his images Adams aimed to modulate the range of tones from rich black to whitest white in order to achieve perfect photographic clarity. He also developed a knowledge of the techniques of photographic reproduction to assure that the quality of any reproduced work might approach as closely as possible the standard of the original print. In 1962 Adams moved to Carmel, California, where in 1967 he was instrumental in the foundation of the Friends of Photography, of which he became president. A retrospective show of his work, 1923-1963, was exhibited at the de Young Museum, and in 1966 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the late 1970s his prints sold to collectors for prices never equaled by a living American photographer. By that time Adams had given up active photography to devote himself to revising the Basic Photo Series, publishing books of his life's work, and preparing prints for a variety of exhibitions.

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