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Ansel Adams, Photographer &#; Bio
By William Turnage, Reprinted courtesy of the author and Oxford University Press
This Ansel Adams biography was published by Oxford University Press for its American National Biography.
Ansel Adams in front of his most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez”
Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 — Apr. 22, ), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of , and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup.
An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was decidedly Victorian and both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inabi
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About me:
Professional Photographer (self-educator) since Since his photography actually is artistic. His works now are altogether advanced elaborations.
Location: Germany / Hamburg
My work shall confess clear, to the most important point of all our life, to conclude peace on every place at our planet and save our surrounding world! A dream for more tolerance and more love for each other, but also for more respect in regard to the nature&#;
And a dream for the equal rights of all women around the world and no racism!
Art is the only incorruptible weapon against war, violence, greed, inequality and so the inhumanity! We as artists have the great responsibility, to manifest this background about our work and to carry!
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Inspirations:
All arts are the products of the unseen and the unknown. They are the parts of the mystery of our own existence. All emotions out of me, which based on psychological sources, my heart and my soul!
As person for inspiration with great distance to all the other great artists, are Edward Steichen, Robert Mapplethorpe and Paolo Roversi .
So emotional portraits are my favorites to photograph.
Tracing the changes occurring around and reflected in human souls… Following the atmo
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I am a storyteller control and supreme.
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