Who is Ansel Adams?

Ansel Adams was a well-known American photographer whose iconic black-and-white pictures are some of the most recognized in the world of photography. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of Yosemite National Park and the great desert country of the American West. Ansel Adams was born in 1902, and died in 1984 at the age of 82. Ansel Adams was born to a successful family in San Francisco just before the great earthquake of 1906. He was raised with a love and respect for nature from an early age, and the values of Ralph Waldo Emerson were deeply embedded in his life philosophy. Ansel Adams was first taken to Yosemite in 1916 by his parents, and it was there he was given his first camera, a Kodak Brownie. The next year, at 15, he went back to Yosemite by himself with a handful of new cameras. He jumped into photography with a passion, apprenticing, reading everything written on the subject, going to every photography opening in the Bay Area, and joining a number of photography ...  more