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Category:	Modern Art
Name:	Ansel Adams The Road to Expressionism
Birth Year:	1902
Death Year:	1984
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Ansel Adams! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Ansel Easton Adams (February 20,1902-April 22, 1984) was an American photographer born in San Francisco. Famous for his black & white landscape photographs of the national parks (Yosemite National Park among others), and as an author of numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals (The Camera, The Negative and The Print). Adams was also an environmentalist and a member of the Sierra Club, and co-founded the photographic association Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham and others. He invented the "Zone System" a technique that allows the photographer to translate a visual impression of his or her subject to photographic film and paper. As well as the Zone System, Adams also pioneered the idea of 'pre-visualisation', the idea of seeing a completed print and then working through the steps to build that print. Adams left school in 1915 to educate himself. He originally trained himself as a pianist. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted from the Wikipedia article on Ansel Adams] The Great Books: Ansel Adams Please browse our Amazon list of titles by or about Ansel Adams. For rare and hard to find titles we recommend our Alibris list of titles by or about Ansel Adams. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.