Ansel Easton Adams and Yosemite National Park
14 Jun 2010 Comments Off
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Ansel Easton Adams born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California and died on April 22nd, 1984 in Carmel, California. Adams was a great American photographer, writer and teacher of artistic photography. He is best known for its impressive landscape and nature photographs of National Parks, National Monuments and Wilderness Areas in the western United States. He was actively engaged in the preservation of these natural beauties.
In 1916 Ansel Adams visited Yosemite National Park for the first time with his parents. His father gave him his first camera. The 14-year-old passionately recorded everything that came before his lens. In 1919 Adams joined the Sierra Club founded by John Muir. In 1922 Adams published his first article for the Sierra Club Bulletin.
