Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco on February 20, 1902 . Adams was born into the
family of business man Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray. Adams grew up in a house
near the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. During an after shock of the great earthquake and fire of
1906, Adams was thrown to the ground and as a result he had broken his nose. This incident
resulted in Adams having a distinct marking on his face, this was the way many people could tell if
he was really who he claimed to be. In his 82 years of life, he had become recognized as an
environmentalist and as the leader of modern photography through his sharp and poetic landscape
photographs of the American West. As a youngster he spent much of his time on the piano.
When he began taking pictures, he slowly began to lose interest in the piano. In 1930 he devoted
all his time to photography, this was due to the amazing work of another photographer by the
name of Paul Strand. In 1932 Adams had his first solo show in a major museum. A few years
later Adams moved to Yosemite, California where he focused his pictures on the national parks
on the west side of the country. Working with exclusively black and white, Adams used different
lighting to produce amazing images. Adams first passion in life was playing the piano but that
changed quickly when he picked up a camera. Adams continued to take pictures until he died on
April 22, 1984 in Yosemite, California. Many of Adams pictures can still be bought today but due
to there originality, they are ranging anywhere from $9,000 to $50,000.
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