What Is The Difference Between Ansel Adams Tetons And The Snake River

Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California (Turnage). Adams first became involved with photography in 1916 when his parents gave him a Kodak Box Brownie camera when they went to Yosemite National Park on a summer vacation. When Adams was 12 he taught himself to play the piano, he then supported himself by teaching piano later on until 1930(Lorenz). In 1919, at the age of 17, Adams became involved with the Sierra Club. In 1927 Adams went on the Sierra Clubs High Trip, and the next year he became the Clubs official trip photographer (History). Adams published his first illustrated book, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, in 1927. It was followed shortly by Taos pueblo, which was published in 1930. In the 1930’s he
decided to devote himself to photography after meeting Paul Strand, who showed him the potential photography had as an expressive art form (Lorenz). Adams was a part of Group f.64, he formed this group in 1932 with “several other San Francisco Bay Area photographers. Group f.64 promoted “’straight’ unmanipulated photography”, and you can see this in Adams image Tetons and the Snake River (Lorenz). While looking at this image we see that it is in very sharp focus which is what the group liked, that is why they named themselves after the smallest aperture of lens, f.64. The image also does not appear to be manipulated in anyway. Adams passed away April 22, 1984, in Monterey, California (Ansel).
Adams reputation as a Photographer has been established by three Guggenheim Fellowships, multiple exhibitions around America, and a lot of publications (Photographer). Adams liked to experiment with shutter speed, aperture size, long exposures, and various filters. Doing all of this would give his photographs amazing contrast and the fact that he used the f.64 lens helped to give his images a certain depth (EXPO 1). Adams was also an environmental activist, and he used his photography to promote protection of wilderness areas, such as Yosemite (Ansel).
Tetons and the Snake River is one of Adams landscapes that he took in 1942.
Looking at the image we can see a snow peaked mountain range in the background, with some dark grey clouds above them. The clouds to the right of the image appear to be thicker and it even looks like it is snowing. While the clouds in the left top corner of the image are dispersing and you can even see a little bit of sunshine coming through. The image then leads off from the base of the mountains into what appears to be a valley with a river running through it. I am assuming the rivers name is Snake River. The river starts at the bottom right hand corner of the image, it goes to the left of the image and then makes a loop back to the right, goes to the middle of the image, and then it make a loop to the left. The river then disappears behind some trees and you can no longer see it. From the base of the mountains on the right of the image you see that the valley leads right to the river, and then there seems to be a sudden drop in the terrain when it reaches the rivers loop in the middle of the image. From that loop of the river we see that there appears to be trees from that sudden drop all along the river on the right side of the image coming towards the bottom of the image. As we look closer to the river we see that there appears to be a sandy “beach” along the river’s edge. Now looking at the middle of the image starting at the base of the mountains we see that valley, and there appears to be some little hills in it all the way to the river. However, looking to the left of the image if we start at the base of the mountain again we cannot see the valley because we see the nearest hill to us and the river. That hill has some trees on it and it also looks to be kind of sandy when it drops down closer to the river bank. Looking back to the middle of the image again only more to the left of the river, we see that there seems to be trees covering the flat that the river is flowing through.
Now looking at the bottom left hand corner of the image we see that there are some tall trees that almost look like pines. Now getting to the lighting of the image, it is a black and white photograph so it does have a different kind of contrast to it compared to color images. The mountains in the right hand corner look gloomy and there even appears to be a storm coming in, but in the middle of the image with the light coming through the clouds it almost appears to have a regal look to it.