Ansel Adams

 







             Ansel Adams was a nature photographer and visionary figure of wilderness preservation. His fascination of nature began after breaking his nose as a young child when the aftershock of an earthquake threw him into the ground. His work was criticized for not including human subjects. It was also criticized for representing an idealized wilderness that no longer existed, a national park in the Kings River region of the Sierra Nevada. His images played a huge role in the protection of these areas. I wanted to look up a photographer that I knew nothing about, and I was drawn to Ansel Adams because of the amount of detail he still seemed to catch in his work without being so close to the subject. I was also attracted to his amazing ability to capture these landscapes because landscapes are not my strongest. Ansel Adams did not exclude color photography, he just preferred black and white photography for two reasons: he thought color was distracting and could take away from the full potential of a photograph, and because Ansel thought of himself as the master of control. He mastered a particular technique when using black and white that color lacked.
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