Ansel Adams
Personal Connection
When I have children someday, I want
to be able to let them remember their
childhoods by lookind back at photographs
(although I'm sure there will be new,
extremely advanced technologies than those
that we use today)
I hope to become a much better
photographer so that I can capture
great moments of my adolescence
pictures bring me back to my
happy childhood memories that
I really cherish and hold close
Childhood Aspect
Childhood
memories, captured on film
feelings of naiveness, carelessness
security, love, happiness
my greatest childhoo memories are
all in photographs and the ones that
i have taken of friends, family, and
places that I have gone
nature hikes and photography was a
great memory from his childhood
Nature
"psychological experience of natural beauty"
Golden Gate
"Adams' was transfixed
and transformed"
his life was "colored
and modulated by the
great earth gesture"
Adam' parents gave him
a Kodak No. 1 box Brownie
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"He hiked. climbed, and explored,
gaining self-esteem and self-confidence"
THESIS
Ansel Adams' photography was an attempt to recapture happy moments of his youth.
Surf Sequence No. 5
Sense of time
capturing an instant, also representing the instant as if its part of a timeless sequence
sense of long term changes in landscape
No people; gives a real sense of the scene itself
Reminds me of my childhood at the beach
Sense of motion yet is so tranquil and calm
Biography
minimal education
solitary childhood
led to his interest in nature and photography
natural shyness
Born February 20th 1902 in San Fransisco, California
Acheivements
published 226 photographs throughout many national parks, forests, landmarks, and mountain
ranges
established as the artist of the Sierra Nevada
and the defender of Yosemite by the Sierra Club
