1. 1. AmericanPhotographerAnsel Adams ByLinda Ivy
   "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to havesomebody click the shutter.-- Ansel Adams --
   
2. 2. AnselEaston Adams
   
3. 3. Ansel Easton AdamsFeb. 20 1902 Apr. 22 1984Adams was born in San Francisco, California Photographer and environmentalist known for his black and white photographs of our American West.
   
4. 4. Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley c.1927
   
5. 5. Adams taught himself to play the piano and read music at the age of twelve.Taking lessons became his substitute for formal schooling. Piano brought substance, discipline, and structure. This would profoundly inform his visual artistry. Ultimately he gave up music for photography.
   
6. 6. Minarets, Evening Clouds, California c.1937
   
7. 7. He spent as much time as he could every year from 1916 until his death. From his first visit, Adams was transfixed and transformed from its beauty the evidence canonly be seen in the beauty he captured in all of his photographs.In 1919 he joined the Sierra Club and spent four summers in Yosemite Valley, as "keeper" of the club's LeConte Memorial Lodge .
   Hemethiswife, VirginiaBest, hereatYosemite.
   
8. 8. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico c.1941
   
9. 9. 1922Adams first published photographs and writings appeared in the Sierra Club s Bulletin.1927Adams made his first fully visualized photograph, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome. 1928Adams had his first one man exhibition at the Sierra Clubs San Francisco headquarters.1934 Adams is elected to the Sierra Clubs board of directors.
   Adams was a great artist
   ofSierra Nevada and was known
   as a protector and defender of Yosemite.
   
10. 10. Lake MacDonald, Glacier National Park c.1942
    
11. 11. Adams'slife is the stuff of legends. Adams developed the famous and highly complex "zone system" of controlling and relating exposure and development. He produced ten volumes of technical manuals on photography. These books are known as the most influential books ever written on the subject of photography.
    
12. 12. The Tetons and theSnake River, Grand TetonNational Park, Wyoming c.1942
    
13. 13. Some of Ansel Adams early video clipshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/sfeature/sf_sierra.html
    
14. 14. Central Park andSkyscrapers, New York City c. 1945
    
15. 15. Records of the National Park ServiceAnsel Adams Photographs
    http://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams/
    
16. 16. Nevada Fall, Rainbow, Yosemite Valley c. 1947
    
17. 17. more websites to check out:
    http://www.anseladams.com/http://www.sierraclub.org/history/anseladams/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/peopleevents/p_aadams.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/peopleevents/p_aadams.htmlhttp://www.anseladams.com/aboutAAG.htmlhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?articleID=64235962&c=y
    
18. 18. Oak Tree,Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park c.1948
    
19. 19. Aspens, Northern New Mexico c.1958
    
20. 20. Moon and Half Dome,Yosemite Valley c.1960
    
21. 21. El Capitan, Winter Sunrise, Yosemite National Park c.1968
    
22. 22. All Photographs by Ansel Adams The Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trustcourtesyof
    Masters of Photography
    
23. 23. Ansel did not like using color
    he thought it was like playing an out of tune piano.
    Here are a few he did make.
    
24. 24. Photographs:http://www.masters-of-photography.com/Web sites:http://www.masters-of-photography.com/http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/anseladams_biography2.htmlhttp://www.anseladams.com/ansel_art/faves.htmlhttp://theanseladamsgallery.blogspot.com/http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/adams.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/peopleevents/p_aadams.htmlhttp://www.anseladams.com/aboutAAG.htmlhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?articleID=64235962&c=y
    
25. 25. Works cited:
    Sometimes I do . --Ansel Adams
    Web sites :
    Turnage, Robert.Ansel Adams: The Role of the Artist in the Environmental Movement.March 1980.The Ansel Adams Gallery.
    http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/conservation.html
    Turnage, William.Ansel Adams, Photographer.2009.The Ansel Adams Gallery.
    http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/anseladams_biography2.html
    Ansel Anecdotes:Perspectives on Moonrise.
    2009.The Ansel Adams Gallery.
    http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/ansel_ancedotes.html