Great Black and White photographers part 2

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an american photographer and environmentalist, best known for his great black and white photography. Ansel was born on February 20, 1902 and died April 22, 1984 in the western addition of San Francisco, California to upper-class parents Charles Adams and Olive Adams. He came a very wealthy, well educated, and successful family. Ansel was also an only child and in 1903 Ansel's family moved to a new home with a splendid view of the Golden Gate and the Marin Headlands which made it even better for Ansel to start with his photography. Ansel was kind of a sick kid when he was a child, he was a hyperactive child and prone to frequent sickness and hypochondria. He also had very little friends and stayed at home most of the time learning his music. Ansel even taught himself how to play the piano when he was twelve years old; music became his main focus of his later youth. His father later on gave him his first camera which was a Kodak brownie box camera and with that he began taking his first pictures and his love for picture taking took place. Ansel loved the outdoors too, because of the beautiful landscapes. He loved hiking, camping, and photographing. In 1927 adam was contracted for his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierra. With the sponsorship and promotion of Albert Bender, Adams portfolio was a success earning about $3,900.  Soon after that he began to do commercial assignments to photograph the wealthy patrons that bought his work. He was set this was the start of his whole career. Ansel's most famous works was Moon and half done, Yosemite national park, and California.