The Life of the Characters in ansel adams's Works

Adams was born into an upper-class family in San Francisco, California, with his father Charles and his mother Olive. Adams is the only child in the family. His name comes from his uncle Ansel Easton. The Adams family immigrated from Ireland to New England in early A.D. 1700, but they were not related to the early American President john adams's family.

1902 In February, Adams was born in his parents' bed. Although he is very active, he is weak and ill. Adams' nose was broken in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and he has not undergone corrective surgery since then. People can clearly find the broken marks on his nose. The earthquake also brought great shock to Adams when he was a child. His early memory is full of a series of destroyed cities and fire scenes after the earthquake.

/kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, he dropped out of school to teach himself and dreamed of becoming a pianist. /kloc-when he was 0/4 years old, he went to Yosemite's uncle's house to recuperate because of overwork and health damage. He visited Yosemite Park and received a camera. From then on, he began to use photography to express Yosemite's scenery, and laid the foundation for his outstanding contribution to photography throughout his life. He also met Virginia Best, who later became his wife. Adams wavered between the career choices of pianist and photographer.

/kloc-At the age of 0/7, Adams joined the Mountain Club, an organization dedicated to protecting natural scenery and resources. He has never left this organization in his life and once served as the leader of the club with his wife. As a young man, Adams was an avid climber, taking part in the club's annual mountaineering trip, and later took charge of the first summit of the Sierra Nevada.

/kloc-at the age of 0/8, he decided to receive further professional training and take music as his career. At that time, he found a part-time job and worked as an administrator of the Shanxie Memorial Hall for four summers. This job has kept him in touch with the eco-environmental movement of the Mountain Association all his life. So Adams began to bathe in vilen in the western United States for many years and took photos until he was twenty-six. Adams was appointed as a national park photographer by the Mountain Society. But at this time, Adams' landscape photos were very dull, and it was not until he met his senior photographer Paul Straddle two years later that he suddenly became enlightened. He recalled the encounter that changed his life like this: watching Shi Chuande's works is the most important experience in my life, and his works are the ultimate expression of watching things. His works don't follow the rules of composition, but I stick to form everywhere, such as what should be balanced and so on. That moment made me realize how I should go in the future. Kua Li is listed as a photographer of the generation from 192 1 year to 1940, one generation earlier than Adams.

1927, on the semi-dome mountain, he first discovered that he could still photograph at that height. In his original words, he said, "... a cold and hot real poem". Since then, he has become an environmentalist, and his photographs show the natural scenery before it is touched by people. Therefore, the reputation of Shan Ye Club has greatly increased.

During his long photography career, he has always had a special feeling for Yosemite and comes here to take pictures every year. Adams has a great feeling of "never getting tired of watching and shooting" about Yosemite. In addition to Yosemite National Park, Adams also photographed the Great Sur Coast, the Sierra Nevada, the southwestern United States and national parks. Adams' achievements in photography were greatly influenced by his predecessor Stent and Stie Gerriets, a representative of pure photography. He first studied under Weston, and then became close friends with Weston. Influenced by Weston's ideological style, 1932 set up a photography group named "F/64 Group". "F64" was the smallest aperture on the camera at that time, and the name of this organization was the declaration of their artistic ideas. In other words, they advocate using a small aperture to obtain a long depth of field and excellent clarity. So Adams belongs to the "pure photography school". His works deserve to be listed among the typical and best masterpieces of pure photography.

Adams' limited edition TV series Sierra Nevada: The Road of John Muir, with his narration, was published in 1940, and the proceeds contributed to the protection of Chinese fir and the Grand Canyon. 65438-0943 entered new york Art Museum as the director of photography department. 1946 returned to his hometown of San Francisco and taught photography at the State Academy of Fine Arts. During World War II, Adams was attached to the Interior Department of Washington Center, specializing in the creation of photographic murals. After the Pearl Harbor incident, he was very disappointed with the war situation and went to the foot of Williamson Mountain and the historical border of Manzana in Owens Valley to draw materials. The photos and essays of this trip were first exhibited in new york Museum of Modern Art, and "Born Free and Equal" was published, showing the situation of Japanese-Americans in Manzana, California, USA.

Adams won the Guggenheim Prize three times in his life. 1966 won the American Academy of Arts Award. 1980, Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest praise of the country to American citizens.

Adams is also a photographer and educator. During the twenty years from 1960 to 1979, he published fifteen works, such as Trilogy of Technological Innovation, Camera, Film and Printing. Adams kept writing and creating until he was 80 years old, and his art was amazing. 1April, 984, the old photographer died.