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In all of landscape photography and perhaps photography as a whole, there are few names more famous than that of Ansel Adams. His landscape images of the American west transcended the medium and elevated photography, perhaps for the first time, into the realm of art.
I recently had the opportunity to read the latest...
If you enjoyed taking a trip back in time with previously unreleased footage of Ansel Adams last week, then you will really love the recently completed video tour of the late legend's darkroom.
Ansel's son, Michael, recently gave Marc Silber an in-depth look at the darkroom and provided some nice background information...
Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is one of his most well-known photographs with Adams making over 1,300 prints of it during his career. A print was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2006 for over $600,000.
Part of what makes the photo particularly interesting is how it was created. Adams, his son Michael and...
The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia is currently hosting an Ansel Adams exhibit through March 20th. The exhibit, Ansel Adams: Before & After, displays his work amongst the work of "predecessors, peers, and contemporary photographers."
Atlanta's NPR Station, 90.1FM WABE did a story about the exhibit...
Do you want to be paid upwards of $100,000 USD to capture images of American National Parks for the National Park Service? Well, you're in luck, because there's a new job opening for exactly that. Just as Ansel Adams started doing in 1941, you can be paid a pretty penny to travel from Washington, D.C. around the country...
Ansel Adams was a communicator who made no attempt to hide what was on his mind. But one photographer in particular drew out the worst in Adams, with him going so far as to refer to his contemporary as ‘the anti-Christ.’
This photographer was William Mortensen, an American fine art...
Ansel Adams was without doubt one of the most influential America landscape photographers of all time. Besides being regarded as one of the inventors of the Zone System that allows to determine proper exposure all the way from capturing a photograph to its print, his meticulous eye for tonal nuances helped shape the face of black-and-white landscape...
Ansel Adams was not only a pioneering landscape photographer, but a conservationist as well, playing a big role in convincing the federal government to create the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. After his death, a section of the central California wilderness was renamed in...
Come October 3rd, Christie's auction house will hold a photography auction, and in addition to an unparalleled collection of images up for bid from some of the most famed of all photographers, there's also the opportunity to bid on one of the most incredible pieces of ethnographic works the world has ever seen: Edward S....
"So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer." -- Imogen Cunningham
In her long life, Imogen Cunningham was one of America's finest photographers and one of a...
Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro spends hours underwater armed with a digital SLR and a pair of flippers but his love of photography began on land with the spectacular American vistas captured by Ansel Adams.
"Ansel Adams is an inspiration for me," Koentjoro has said. "I’ve been studying and learning his...
We've shared videos of master photographer Ansel Adams discussing photography in the past but those black-and-white clips have always felt stagey and scripted. Now, photography site ISO 1200 has stumbled upon a more informal, color interview with Adams from 1971 and it's fascinating to see the legend discuss photography...
Anyone who's an Ansel Adams fan is going to want to set aside an hour or so to watch this insightful video (below). Entitled "Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man," it's an educational discussion led by Andrea Stillman who worked for Adams as his assistant at his home studio in Carmel, CA, beginning in...
Like lots of other kids, I spent Saturdays in our local, somewhat faded movie theater, my eyes glued to the screen as cowboys and Indians wildly rode across a vast, empty landscape. While all of us kids wanted to be cowboys, none of us ever thought about playing one of the Wild West photographers. After all, in the...
Talk about a photographic treasure trove! Over 600 signed prints by legendary American photographer Ansel Adams have been discovered in a box at the University of California's Berkeley campus.
The prints -- totalling 605 in number -- were part of a project Adams had been hired for in the 1960s, which involved...
Ansel Adams changed the way photographers look at the natural world and the way we take scenic photographs. His “Zone System” certainly changed the way many of us took and printed black-and-white photographs. I know beause I studied the system with one of Ansel’s printers, Oliver Gagliani, and it definitely improved my prints and my photography.
An old video about Adams has...