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A dramatically lit black-and-white photograph depicts a large river, which snakes from the bottom right to the center left of the picture. Dark evergreen trees cover the steep left bank of the river, and lighter deciduous trees cover the right. In the top half of the frame, there is a tall mountain range, dark but clearly covered in snow.
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64 , an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph .
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]
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Ansel Adams: Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite trees with snow on branches, April 1933 Exhibition poster. Group f /64 or f.64 was a group founded by seven American 20th-century San Francisco Bay Area photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharply focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S.) viewpoint.
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Adams took the picture while driving back from a trip to Canyon de Chelly, in Arizona, with his wife, Virginia, and two assistant photographers, Gerry Sharpe and Don Worth, in the Autumn of 1958. His attention was suddenly caught by a grove of aspens, in New Mexico , in particular by their golden leaves.
As a member of the Sierra Club in the 1920s, Adams joined the club's annual month-long High Trips in the Sierra Nevada in addition to making several trips on his own. During these trips he captured large-format black-and-white images of many of the region's well-known features, including King's River Canyon, Muir Gorge, the pinnacles at the headwaters of King's River, Mount Brewer, The Black ...