Essays on Ansel Adams

Introduction

Ansel Adams was a great contemporary black and white photographer . He received the Presidential Medal of Honor from President James Carter. From studying his works there are several terms that are used very often.

Lighting or luminosity is a very important concept in black and white photography as well as color photography. In black and white photography, the warmth of an area brightness makes the mood of the photograph appear different to the eye. The amount of lighting changes the image itself and can be used to create different moods in the same photograph .

Composition

Composition is probably the major ...

Ansel Easton Adams is a renowned photographer in America. He was born in the year 1902 February the 20th in the Western Francisco, California. In the year 1927, he had his very first portfolio produced which was called Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. In this portfolio, he featured his famous photograph Monolith the Face of Half Dome. This portfolio earned him a good amount, 3900 dollars. In the 1930's, he published books on photography and laid to rest on April the 22nd 1984.Adam is popularly known for the black and white landscape photographs where he featured the American West mainly ...

According to Ansel Adams, art comprises of both love and friendship. Love is viewed as the resonance of the physical and spiritual things. Friendship is also considered as part of love and full of accepting and transmitting things like grass and thunderclouds. According to Ansel, art is more than kindness and it involves the taking and giving of beautiful things, the wonderful and tragic truths concerning men and the earth. The arts are also viewed as a subdivision of cultures that consists many art forms that are united through the employment of the human creative impulse. The other divisions ...

Ansel Addams

If were to be photographed, my photographer of choice would be Ansel Adams. This person was both a photographer as well as an environmentalist. This photographer gave more emphasis and focus on the environment and this gave him an opportunity to explore into the environmental factors and forces in relation to the photography and the general landscape of the environment concerned. He took most of his photographs at the national park since he liked association with the environment and this gave him a field or platform to enhance his skills. His creativity in relation to the quality of the print made ...

Photography and Rhetoric

The photograph Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California caught my eye in the gallery. It is a from Ansel Adam’s amazing work photographing the Yosemite National Park. The beauty of the photo cannot be exaggerated. Although the photo is in black and white it is clearly depicting one of the most beautiful places in the USA. A viewer may not even notice that the photograph is not in color because of the detail. On the right side of the valley a butte is majestically standing over a cloud. On the left is a smaller butte which is not flat on ...