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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]
Yosemite Valley, View from Inspiration Point, 1879, in the Princeton University Art Museum Minerva Terraces, Mammoth Hot Springs, National Park, by Watkins Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916) was an American photographer of the 19th century.
Years later, when photographer Ansel Adams was a boy, his Aunt Mary gave him a copy of James M. Hutchings, In the Heart of the Sierras (1888) when he was sick. The book piqued his interest enough to persuade his parents to vacation in Yosemite National Park in 1916. Most of the photographs in the book are by George Fiske.
Yosemite National Park in California is world-renowned for its dramatic landscape, sheer granite cliffs and cascading waterfalls, the most famous of which being aptly named Yosemite Falls. But ...
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley (c. 1937) by Ansel Adams. Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams, c. 1937. It is part of a series of natural landscapes photographs that Adams took from Inspiration Point, at Yosemite Valley, since the 1930s.
Located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, Yosemite is popular for its giant sequoia trees, its towering Bridalveil waterfall and its gorgeous granite cliffs.
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 ...
Matthew Dippel, a Michigan photographer, was in Yosemite National Park in California when he directed his friend to hike over to the famous viewpoint Taft Point to pose for a photo. But instead ...