Ansel Adams (Feb. 20 1902 - Apr. 22, 1984) was a photographer as well as an environmentalist. He was born in San Fransisco and attended Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School as a child, which would be the equivalent of attending 8th grade. He became a piano player as his primary job by 1920. Ansel always loved nature and he loved the Golden Gate, for in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture" of the Yosemite Sierra. He later joined the Sierra Club and spent several summers in Yosemite Valley where he met his wife, Virginia Best. The Sierra Club posted his first photographs and writings in the club's 1922 Bulletin, and he had his first one man exhibition in 1928 at the club's San Francisco headquarters. He then continuously met photographers as he became well known to all and his style as well. He had art shows in New York and he met several photographers in New York however he did not climb up the financial ladder. He helped found the photography magazine Aperture and was contracted with the US Department of the Interior to make photos of national parks and was warded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
The Ansel Adams Gallery
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