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Adams was born in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray.He was named after his uncle, Ansel Easton. His mother's family came from Baltimore, where his maternal grandfather had a successful freight-hauling business but lost his wealth investing in failed mining and real estate ventures in Nevada. [2]
A mural-sized print of this photograph was sold for $988,000 at Sotheby's New York, on December 14, 2020, the highest price ever reached by an Ansel Adams work. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Public collections
The ashes of Ansel Adams were later scattered on Half Dome after he died. [45] Half Dome was used as the logo for a software company, Sierra On-Line. In 1971, outdoor recreation and climbing equipment company The North Face created their company logo, based upon a stylized depiction of the Half Dome formation. It is still their logo 50 years ...
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) by Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is a black-and-white photograph taken by Ansel Adams, late in the afternoon on November 1, 1941, [1] from a shoulder of highway US 84 / US 285 in the unincorporated community of Hernandez, New Mexico, United States. [2]
Jeffers was an inspiration and friend to western U.S. photographers of the early 20th century, including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Morley Baer. In fact, the elegant book of Baer's photographs juxtaposed with Jeffers's poetry, [9] combines the creative talents of those two residents of the Big Sur coast.
Camp life at Manzanar: Female internees practicing calisthenics, 1943. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans is a book by Ansel Adams containing photographs from his 1943–1944 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center [1] in Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1927 that depicts the western face of Half Dome in Yosemite, California. In the foreground of the photo, viewers are able to see the texture and detail of the rock as well as the background landscape of pine trees and the ...