Friday, February 15, 2019

                   

   m              Ansel Adams, born February 20, 1902, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died April 22, 1984, Carmel, California, the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century.
 Adams was a hopeless, rebellious student, but, once his father bowed to the inevitable and removed him from school at age 12, he proved a remarkable autodidact. He became a serious and ambitious musician who was considered by qualified judges including the musicologist and composer Henry Cowell to be a highly gifted pianist. After he received his first camera in 1916, Adams also proved to be a talented photographer.
                     
                     Most of Adams’s great work as a photographer was completed by 1950: only a handful of important pictures were made during the last half of his adult life. Rather, in his later life, he spent most of his energy as a photographer on reinterpreting his earlier work and on editing books of his own work often with his frequent collaborator, Nancy Newhall.

                      In 1980 Adams was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. Acknowledging Adams’s years of work as both a photographer and an environmentalist, the president’s citation said, “It is through Adams’s foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.”

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