Ansel Adams: An Influential American Photographer

Ansel Adams was an influential American photographer that died on April twenty-second in Monterey, California during 1984 leaving a legacy behind. He was born on February twentieth in San Francisco, California during 1902 and start to pursue his career of photography in the 1920s. As a child, he struggled with Attention Deficient Disorder, and being disruptive and sick often, he was taught privately at his house in California at the age of twelve. His life of solitude lead to his discovery of the piano, nature, and photography. He started his interest with the landscape as a young boy when he joined the Sierra Club in 1916, after visiting Yosemite National Park. His family was wealthy from his grandfather’s lumber company that was passed down …show more content…
Bender, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz. Albert M. Bender was an Irish man who moved to America where he settled and lived the rest of his years, especially in San Francisco, California. He was a writer and key to art in the 1920s and 1930s especially Ansel Adams and Diego Rivera, as he was the first person to buy Diego Rivera’s work. Albert M. Bender and Ansel Adams had a budding relationship for the first time that they met as he pushes for the “preparation and publication of Ansel Adams’ first portfolio” which was called the Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras and brings a push towards the selling of Ansel Adams’ work. Edward Weston, whom met Adams in 1927, was another influential and critical person for Ansel Adams. The two men, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, had created the world renowned Group f/64 in 1932. The Group f/64 was short lived but left an impact to show the Bay-area photography of eleven American which included Adams and Bender. The Group f/64 also had got their own exhibition in the M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, eventually leading to Ansel Adams getting his “stand-alone” exhibition later that same year. The huge part of the success of Ansel Adams was due to Alfred Stieglitz in the 1930s when the light seemed to truly shine on Ansel Adams. The two men had first met in 1933 in New York, when Ansel Adams was on a journey to meet a photographer who was one of his truly most influential idols. Alfred Stieglitz had a place in Ansel Adams life because Adams had admired the craft, artistry, and philosophy of his and Stieglitz had made it his commitment of his life to the photography medium that he consciously emulated. The two men had a very profound friendship with their deep passion in the constant and powerful encounters. In that same year that they met, Ansel Adams had his first show in New York at the Delphic Gallery. As Stieglitz and his peers in artistry had helped Ansel Adams, it led to the