In 1931, at the Smithsonian Institution, Adams put on his first unaccompanied museum exhibition where he presented sixty prints that he had taken of the High Sierra. The Washington Post gave him an exceptional review. In 1932, he had a display at the M.H. de Young Museum. This show was with Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston; together they made up Group f/64, which is an aperture setting. This group favored “pure or straight photography” instead of pictorialsm. In the fall of 1941, he began taking photographs of National Parks, Indian reservations as well as other locations for the Department of the Interior. They used mural-sized prints to decorate the department’s new building. In 1952, Adams along with a few others started the magazine
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One day, he and his family drove through northern New Mexico with impeccable timing because they came across a village transitioning from daylight to night. Being an in the moment type of person, he pulled the car over onto the shoulder of the road, grabbed his camera and created history with such a powerful picture using just one shot. Within minutes of the picture being taken, the sun had set and the moment was gone with the exception of his amazing photograph. It captured the feelings Adam’s felt as he witnessed such beauty. The book says, “It represents the essence, he felt, of a changing world” (Sayre 271). In roughly forty years, Adams made over 1,300 prints of this image, most were made in the 1970s. Those original prints were worth over $25,000,000, which gave him the financial freedom he needed to be liberated from commercial projects (Wikipedia Contributors). Some other notable works include El Capitan, Tuolumne Meadows and Tenaya Lake. I like how the online article Legacy: Think Like Ansel Adams Today stated, “It was often the weather—the booming clouds of midday, the drama of a clearing winter storm, the bright sun and the chiaroscuro effect it had on the steep valley walls—that made an Adams’ image so …show more content…
He felt that color could be quite distracting, which takes attention away from the “bigger picture” and what he was trying to convey. He stated that he could get “a far greater sense of ‘color’ through a well-planned and executed black and white image than [he had] ever achieved with color photography” (Wikipedia Contributors). When I was researching Adams’ work, I ran across some of his landscapes in color. I was absolutely blown away. I felt that they conveyed more of an emotional connection with me, rather than the black and white
One day, he and his family drove through northern New Mexico with impeccable timing because they came across a village transitioning from daylight to night. Being an in the moment type of person, he pulled the car over onto the shoulder of the road, grabbed his camera and created history with such a powerful picture using just one shot. Within minutes of the picture being taken, the sun had set and the moment was gone with the exception of his amazing photograph. It captured the feelings Adam’s felt as he witnessed such beauty. The book says, “It represents the essence, he felt, of a changing world” (Sayre 271). In roughly forty years, Adams made over 1,300 prints of this image, most were made in the 1970s. Those original prints were worth over $25,000,000, which gave him the financial freedom he needed to be liberated from commercial projects (Wikipedia Contributors). Some other notable works include El Capitan, Tuolumne Meadows and Tenaya Lake. I like how the online article Legacy: Think Like Ansel Adams Today stated, “It was often the weather—the booming clouds of midday, the drama of a clearing winter storm, the bright sun and the chiaroscuro effect it had on the steep valley walls—that made an Adams’ image so …show more content…
He felt that color could be quite distracting, which takes attention away from the “bigger picture” and what he was trying to convey. He stated that he could get “a far greater sense of ‘color’ through a well-planned and executed black and white image than [he had] ever achieved with color photography” (Wikipedia Contributors). When I was researching Adams’ work, I ran across some of his landscapes in color. I was absolutely blown away. I felt that they conveyed more of an emotional connection with me, rather than the black and white