Even if you don't know a lot about photography you know who Ansel Adams is. Adams was born February 20, 1902 his love for nature and photography was inspired by his boyhood trips to Yosemite. As a young man Adams spent his time traveling in between San Francisco and Yosemite torn between his love of music and Photograph of nature. Adams later went on to give up music and become a commercial photographer for more than 30 years and an environmentalist.In 1932 he founded the f/64 group with Edward Weston; he also won three Guggenheim grants to photograph the national parks. Adams developed a zone exposure to maximum tonal range from black and white film
Below is a timeline of Ansel Adams life
1902: Ansel Easton Adams born on February 20, in San Francisco, he was the only child of Olive and Charles Adams
1915: Ansel is taken out of school for the year he has private tutors. His father buys a season pass to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, which he visits almost every day. 1916: Family Trip to Yosemite
1925: Ansel buys a grand piano and decides to become a pianist.
1927: First acknowledged photograph.
1940: Teaches the first Yosemite workshop with Edward Weston.
1953: Works with Dorothea Lange on a Life commission for a photo essay on Mormons in Utah
1962: Adams moves to Carmel, California
1967: he was instrumental in the foundation of the Friends of Photography
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