Over the weekend, I visited an Ansel Adams exhibition in London. Having found his work even more breathtaking in print, I purchased a documentary about the man himself. It was an effort to learn more about the artist I admired.
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Ansel Adams (1902-1984) a very well know master of photography and arguably the most influential landscape photographer in American history. He was a lifelong conservationist who encouraged understanding of, and respect for, the natural environment. Born in a suburb of coastal San Francisco in 1902, Adams was the only
Bodega, California contains many landmarks from Alfred Hitchcock's film, the Birds. St. Teresa of Avila is a Catholic Church made famous by Ansel Adams.
One famed photographer used his gift to protect the landscapes that gave him inspiration.
One of the strangest and most beguiling books to cross our desks recently is a brazen but loving act of appropriation: Zone Eleven (Damiani). It is by the conceptual artist Mike Mandel, but its contents are 83 photographs by the lens legend Ansel Adams (1902–84), he of the mighty Yosemite landscapes in crystalline black and […]
Our histogram shows 256 shades of gray. Besides pure black and pure white Ansel Adams used only nine shades to manipulate the contrast in his famous landscape photos. His zone-system can still be used for our modern digital photography. Every landscape photographer has heard about Ansel Adams or will eventually come across that name. The famous American is mostly known for his
Rare photos taken by Ansel Adams from the collection of David H Arrington, a passionate collector of Adams’ photographs from the beginning, will be offered for sale from 17 February at midday in Sotheby’s New York
