Ansel Easton Adams Research Paper

February 20, 1902, a photographer was born. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams. Adams' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant. Ansel took an interest in music at an early age. He selfly taught himself how to play the piano, and he enjoyed being around the surroundings of nature. Ansel attended both public and private school. At home his father gave him lessons in math and French.

In 1915 when Ansel was 13, his father bought him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This exhibition contained modern art that had been first presented in New York City in 1913. There was also a music exhibition that took Ansel's interest. Ansel took his first photograph in 1916 at age 19, when he and his parents went on a trip to Yosemite National Park. He took his picture with a Kodak Box Brownie camera.
Also, during this year Ansel was appointed photo muralist for the department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. He was given an assignment to make large landscapes of monuments and national parks in different regions of America. Ansel lectured at colleges along the west coast, and at the Museum of Modern Art. Ansel was appointed consultant for the Polaroid Corporation in 1949. Here he worked on aesthetic aspects of the Polaroid Land process. In 1958, Ansel received a third guggenheim grant for his creative work. During the late 1940's, Ansel went on numerous trips to take pictures of all the national parks in the United States. From 1936 to 1970, Ansel was the director of the Sierra Club, which presented him in 1963 with a John Muirn Award. In 1968 he was the recipient of the Conservation Service award of the Interior