Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (Feb. 20, 1902 – Apr. 22, 1984) was a photographer and an environmentalist who was born in San Francisco, California.

There has been an exhibition, ‘Ansel Adams/ From the mountains to the sea’, at the Royal museum Greenwich from 9 Nov 2012 – 28 Apr 2013. The exhibition held Ansel Adams’s most famous photographs of dramatic and evocative landscapes of the American nature. Ansel Adams worked on new techniques, one of them was with a group of artists, ‘f64 school’, who used very small aperture on their camera to make sure every single frame of the picture was in focus, the crashing water is show in clear detail as well as the branches and the mountain further behind.

‘The forests, mountains and coastlines of the US provided a rich environment for Adams’s pioneering photography, and this exhibition brings together his most powerful and striking pictures of water in all its forms, from awe-inspiring images of epic seascapes, dramatic rapids and geysers, to crashing waterfalls, placid ponds, raging rivers and beautiful ice-locked landscapes.’ (Royal museum Greenwich)

With his strong photography, Ansel Adams was a photographic pioneer who got many viewers to get a feel of the American wilderness by just looking at his beautiful images of the American nature.

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Royal museum Greenwich (http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/ansel-adams)