ANSEL ADAMS A CELEBRATION OF ANSEL'S 120th BIRTHDAY
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ANSEL ADAMS Please join us in celebrating Ansel Adams’ 120th birthday. For many, the photographs of Ansel Adams are a portal to a different world. Through Ansel’s striking images, the outdoors are transformed from an abstract concept—a word beyond our auburn cul-de-sacs or crowded city street—into a reality. Here, in his photographs, are our lonely mountains, here are our rugged cliffs, here are our rushing rivers. There is perhaps no photographer in American history who stood for the ethos of stewardship for our shared environment as much as Ansel Adams, who over the course of his decades-long career did more than just introduce Americans to their wild places, but encouraged them to protect them. For a limited time, our Ansel Adams Exclusives and Photography Education classes/workshops are 10% off. Automatically taken off at checkout. Use code: ANSEL120 for Yosemite Valley Photography Classes.
“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.” ― Ansel Adams
Big Sur Portrait
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” ― Ansel Adams A N S E L A D A M S . C O M
ANSEL ADAMS- THE MAN Ansel Adams, The Role of the Artist in the Environmental Movement by Robert Turnage, March 1980 Reprinted courtesy of the Wilderness Society from The Living Wilderness.
Self-Portrait in a Victorian Mirror
In the history of American conservation, few have worked as long and as effectively to preserve wilderness and to articulate the “wilderness idea” as Ansel Adams. Entering his seventh decade of active involvement, he remains as much a crusader. Wilderness has always been for Adams “a mystique: a valid, intangible, non-materialistic experience.” Through his photographs he has touched countless people with a sense of that mystique and a realization of the importance of preserving the last remaining wilderness lands..
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BEHIND THE CAMERA This inspirational legacy of Adams ‘ art constitutes his major significance as an environmentalist. In addition, he has been an important activist in the work of several conservation groups and has personally lobbied congressmen, cabinet officers and Presidents on behalf of wilderness values. Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902, in San Francisco and grew up in the dunes area by the Golden Gate . In those days the Pacific surf and fog were a much more evident influence than the surrounding city. Ansel’s earliest memory is of lying in his carriage watching low fog move across the sky...read more A N S E L A D A M S . C O M
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As one of Ansel Adams’ iconic and enduring masterpieces, “Moon and Half Dome” stands out as an example of his later and most mature work. The majority of photographs synonymous with Adams’ oeuvre – “Moonrise, Hernandez”, “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome”, “The Tetons and Snake River” and many more – were created during Ansel’s earlier years. As older age forced some of the dogged treks and “mountain-goat” climbs that he so loved farther from reach, he found greater creative freedom in his darkroom. Indeed, though Ansel’s photographic output slowed with age, his love of photography only grew. AVAILABLE AS:
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Moon and Half Dome, 1960
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The Story of Dome and Half Moon by Alan Ross Back in probably, 1977 I had started playing around with Ansel’s old 4x5 Graflex. It was a large-format, hand-held single-lens reflex camera. One day Ansel was sitting at his desk and I had the idea of photographing his bald head with some 4x5 BW Polaroid film - with the additional idea of dropping a moon into the shot sometime in the future! Well, that future didn’t happen until sometime in 2018 when I snapped a beautiful half-moon against a clear Santa Fe sky, with the purpose of adding it to the 1977 Polaroid! … And of course it had to be in BW! So thanks to Photoshop, Dome and Half Moon was born! "Dome and Half Moon" by Ted Orland and Alan Ross
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MEADOW In 1930, Ansel Adams ventured to Yosemite’s high country and photographed “Sierra Meadow,” a work of art that depicts the lush beauty and intricate flora of a garden-meadow. The wildflowers in Ansel’s photograph glow with a luminosity made through a soft focus lens, a technique Ansel almost entirely abandoned five years earlier. Though “Sierra Meadow” does not illustrate the high contrast and sharper style of Ansel’s more well known photographs, it was a piece that remained close to his heart for the rest of his life.
Sierra Meadow, 1930
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ANSEL AND THE SIERRA CLUB The Sierra Club was vital to Adams’s early success as a photographer. His first published photographs and writings appeared in the club’s 1922 Bulletin, and he had his first one man exhibition in 1928 at the club’s San Francisco headquarters. Each summer the club conducted a month-long High Trip, usually in the Sierra Nevada, which attracted up to two hundred members. The participants hiked each day to a new and beautiful campsite accompanied by a large contingent of pack mules, packers, cooks, and the like. As photographer of these outings, in the late 1920s, Adams began to realize that he could earn enough to survive — indeed, that he was far more likely to prosper as a photographer than as a concert pianist. By 1934 Adams had been elected to the club’s board of directors and was well established as both the artist of the Sierra Nevada and the defender of Yosemite.
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