Abstract
Ansel Adams was one of America's most famous photographers. This paper introduces and discusses Ansel Adams the man, his innovative photographic techniques, and their impact on traditional photography.

From the Paper
"By the mid 20s, Adams began to realize he could make a living with his photography. He decided to concentrate on his photographic work, instead of a career as a concert pianist. This was a turning point in his life, and while he continued to enjoy music throughout his life, photography became his vocation, and his lifelong passion. In 1927, he received the patronage of Albert M. Bender, a wealthy San Francisco insurance magnate, and it changed his life. Bender helped him publish his first portfolio of photographs, but even more importantly, he helped Adams develop his self-confidence and abilities, which allowed him to become more creative and artistic."

Tags:Zone, System, Yosemite, National, Park, Black, and, White, Bulletin

Abstract
The paper examines how Ansel Adams was a "straight photographer" who captured the beauty of natural America, particularly the West. The paper explores how he was also a national icon who worked tirelessly for the preservation of the national parks and furthered the cause of environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. The writer proposes that Adam's art was an expression of himself, in the sense that he found the sublime in nature and transmitted it so that others could experience the same refulgence.

From the Paper
"An artistic sensibility characterized the young Ansel Adams. "When Adams was twelve he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Soon he was taking lessons, and the ardent pursuit of music became his substitute for formal schooling." He imagined himself becoming a concert pianist. Such training was not wasted, even though he did eventually give up the piano in favor of the camera. "From music, he brought to camera work long hours of practice. This accustomed him to technique and hard work; intense study of great composers led him to a deep sense of esthetics, also the direction of creativity required of a performing artist, which interestingly enough, fit photography very well."

Tags:earthquake, concert, pianist, photography, camera

Abstract
This paper discusses the life of Ansel Adams. It explains that he was a modern artist who brought about the idea of the importance of photography as the art that we now know, and additionally, he helped set the standard for the building of identity through majestic images of the American landscape.

From the Paper
"Up to the point which Adams works began to show prominence within the art world much of photography was centered on recording images first as the science of photography, then as records of physical identity, and then for posterity as records of people. (Newhall 9) Adams was one of the first photographers to broaden the scope of images to larger scale representations of things people would not have been able to see in small scale, large natural landscapes at specific times and from specific angels of scope. In summation, he turned photography into art and eventually his works and the works of other even became thought of as high art. In a sense this evolution of photography as a scientific tool to an expression of art and emotion is the history of photography. In Newhall can be seen Ansel Adams at work and just how precise a tool photography became as an expression of mood, when he is setting up for a very emotionally charged and well timed shot. (192)"

Tags:photography, landscape

Abstract
This paper briefly details the life and career of photographer and conservationist Ansel Adams. The paper describes some of his photograph-masterpieces and discusses his contributions to wilderness conservation efforts.

From the Paper
"A wilderness area named for a photographer? He must really have done something special. Yes, there is an Ansel Adams Wilderness, located in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests in California, and Yes, Ansel Adams was far more than a photographer. He used his camera and his conservationist ideas to alert people to the inroads society was making on the wilderness, and made every effort not merely to show the beauty of nature, but used those pictures to make a valid point for Conservation. His was a long and full life, with the innovations of camera techniques that brought a new concept of visualization to still pictures of nature."

Tags:sierra, club, yosemite, national, parks, visualization, content, emotional, appeal, exposed

Abstract
This paper is about Ansel Adams, the famous photographer whose majestic black- and-white landscapes of the American West and whose devotion to clarity and precision made him probably the best known photographer in the United States.

From the Paper
"Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco. He was a photographer best known for technical innovations in his work and for masterly representations of mountainous terrain. He started out as a student of music rather than photography, but photography was an avocation until 1927 when he published his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. This consisted of photographs in the style of the old Pictorialists who had imitated Impressionist painting by suppressing detail in favor of soft, misty effects often achieved in the darkroom rather than in the camera (Moritz, 1977, pp. 1-2).


Trained as a pianist, Adams divided his time between music and photography until 1930. That was when he was first impressed by the work of photographer Paul Strand, an American whose work emphasized beauty of tone and sharp detail. Adams then decided..."

Abstract
This paper analyzes Edward Weston's photography and its illumination of the human inclination to find order in disorder. The paper first analyzes Weston's 1927 series of prints, entitled, "Shell." The paper goes on to explore and analyze the progression of Weston's works ad includes other famous photographers' comments on his works, such as Ansel Adams. In addition, the paper discusses Weston's work as a reassessment of photography as a strictly documentary form of expression.

From the Paper
"There is a confusion inspired in the viewer between what is known and what is felt - a remarkable accomplishment for a photograph taken on a small, deep-focus aperture and created under circumstances self-described as completely unadorned by the soft-focus kind of portraiture that was the dominant popular photographic form at the time of Weston's (and cohort Ansel Adams's) rise to fame. Find a conflict, a tension, in his work articulated in his art, eloquently encapsulated by R. H. Craven's description of Weston as "a thoroughly American genius--courageous, pure, troubled, unorthodox, and utterly sure of its purpose." It is a friction between something that is completely guileless tied to something that stirs complex, personal emotions while inspiring disquieting connections and existential questions about the very nature of how we look at and decode images."

Tags:photography, edward weston, ansel adams, documentary expression, realism romanticism

Abstract
This paper examines the historical context of art in the United States. It discusses how the art of a specific period often times reveals the feelings of society as a whole, or in the least reflects the thoughts and ideas of the artist. The paper focuses on the Cowboy Artists of America, the Armory Show and the works of Ansel Adams and discusses their depictions.

Table of Contents:
The Historical Context of Art
The Cowboy Artists of America and the Prejudice of Art
Frederick Remington (cowboy)
The Armory Show
Ansel Adams
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Art is a reflection of society, while society is a reflection of the people, from which the art is derived. Thus, art is often able to accurately represent the ideologies and even prejudices of the society and times within which they were created. The Cowboy Artists of America were wholly prejudiced in their depiction of Native Americans, and reinforcing as to the concept of manifest destiny. The Armory Show would reveal to the country the great diversity which has grown from our establishment, and the necessity that this diversity not only be accepted, but encouraged. Finally, the works of Ansel Adams have shown that dedication to beauty in turn reveals it to society, which may subsequently generate support for its preservation. Art is a revelation, the presentation of a particular conception of reality, and thus is to be taken alongside the societal and temporal considerations of its individual and place of origin."

Tags:cowboy artists, diversity depiction