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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]
Cowell was also a music tutor of Ansel Adams, and the Varian family in turn became friends with Adams, [12] who became friends with Russell and Sigurd through their mutual activity in the Sierra Club. [5] Adams knew the family for more than 30 years, [12] and was a hiking companion of Russell's; the pair made many trips into the Sierras. [13]
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 ...
Adams knew the family for over 30 years, [8] and upon John Varian's death wrote a poem, To John Varian, which was published in 1931. [1] While that work was one of only a few poems published by Adams, [ 9 ] he later used a line from one of Varian's poems, "...What Majestic Word," as the title of his 1963 Portfolio Four, which was dedicated to ...
Construction on Tor House continued into the late 1950s and early 1960s, and was completed by his eldest son. The completed residence was used as a family home until his descendants decided to turn it over to the Tor House Foundation, formed by Ansel Adams, for historic preservation. The romantic Gothic tower was named after a hawk that ...
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.
Taos Pueblo is a book by Ansel Adams and Mary Hunter Austin.Originally published in 1930, it is the first book of Adams' photographs. A seminal work in his career, it marks the beginning of a transition from his earlier pictorialist style to his signature sharp-focused images of the Western landscape.
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