Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was born in San Francisco and took his first photograph with a Kodak Brownie box camera in Yosemite Valley when he was fourteen. Although trained as a concert pianist from 1914 through 1927, he also studied photography with the photo-finisher Frank Dittman. By 1930, photography became his career choice and the American western landscape his focus.
As a young mountaineer Ansel Adams discovered the natural beauty of the western landscape. He is perhaps among the last of those romantic artists who saw the great spaces of wilderness as a metaphor for freedom and heroic aspirations. He is certainly among those who have sketched the outlines of a new pictorial understanding of the wild landscape, based on nature’s intimate details, unnoted cases and ephemeral gestures
As a young mountaineer Ansel Adams discovered the natural beauty of the western landscape. He is perhaps among the last of those romantic artists who saw the great spaces of wilderness as a metaphor for freedom and heroic aspirations. He is certainly among those who have sketched the outlines of a new pictorial understanding of the wild landscape, based on nature’s intimate details, unnoted cases and ephemeral gestures
This exhibit is part of a fourteen city national tour over a three year period containing twenty-five black and white richly detailed framed photographs.
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