Ansel Adams

Jesse Herrera
Period 1
May 9, 2016
Mr.Auria
Through the Eyes of Ansel Adams
A man with vision, image, and a camera, Ansel Adams Left the world mesmerized with an open mouth. Quite possibly the most infamous photographer, Ansel was known world-wide for his stunning black-and-white images of Yosemite national park landscape. “Through his photographs he has touched countless people with a sense of that mystique and a realization of the importance of preserving the last remaining wilderness lands” (Turnage). Ansel was also an active environmentalist who used photography as a tool to fight and prevent deforestation, he was and still is a great influence to activist and photographers till this day. Ansel Adams’s impression on the would will never
At a young age having trouble fitting in at school, parents Charles Adams and Olive Bray decided Home school tutoring would be best. With No siblings or schoolmates many could understand where his early interest in nature came from. Before discovering his amazing talent in photography he learned to play piano at the age of 12 and began to take lesson after finding out he was fairly proficient. Being the only son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, Ansel's father supported anything his son wanted to pursue in life and after noticing his son’s great interested in nature he bought Ansel a year’s pass to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Almost every day that year Ansel visited Panama-Pacific Exposition taking pictures with a Brownie box camera and expanding his interest and knowledge in nature and science. After gain much photography skills working for a photo finisher and with his Kodak Box Brownie camera in hand, fourteen year old Ansel finally set out for his much anticipated trip vacation trip to Yosemite with his parents. “That first impression of the valley—white water, azaleas, cool fir caverns, tall pines and stolid oaks, cliffs rising to undreamed-of heights, the poignant sounds and smells of the Sierra…was a culmination of experience so intense as to be almost painful. From that day in 1916 my life has been colored and modulated by the great earth gesture of the Sierra.” wrote Ansel in his
Considered an Environmental folk hero and a symbol of the American West by many Ansel adams dedicated a great about of his time and energy throughout his life to help the preservation of natural wilderness and national parks such as his beloved Yosemite. Ansel used his photographs of Yosemite national park to spark an interest and appreciation for nature and wildlife. Sadly Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984, in the ICU at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California, at the age of 82 from cardiovascular