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Ansel Adams 1902-1984 The Grand Maestro behind the camera

Ansel Adams is gone..the photographer who can be classified as the richest photographer in the world, as one of his shots is worth more than 67 million dollars!
He is the only photographer to appear on the cover of Time magazine. . And the professor of five thousand photographers, except for his role in politics and music.. and even in the field of inventions!
Here is a brief presentation of the journey of this great photographer and his style and principles.

At the end of April. April, of this year, one of the masters of photography, the international photographer Ansel Adams, passed away. This photographer was considered to have a political position besides his artistic position. He had two goals in his life: to spread photography and to put pressure on politicians to help him preserve wild landscapes. , which he liked and added to his picture. Adams achieved success in these two things, and from here the artist departed with the conviction that his eighty-two years, including about seventy years with the camera, had achieved its goals.

In his youth, Ansel Adams attracted two hobbies, music and photography, and he baptized his head to play the piano. But by the time he reached twenty-eight, he realized that his enjoyment in photography exceeded that of playing the piano. But the interest in music, which was placed in second place, did not completely lose sight of him even in his late days. One day before his death, his family and friends gathered at his home in Carmel - California - to listen to him play Vladimir Eskenazi, one of the best works that he wants to play, and perhaps based on this marriage between music and photography, we find Adams's pictures, which make us feel his presence. Maestro, take charge behind the camera. As for his start in photography separately, Adams was fourteen years old when he began his journey with a camera - Kodak Brownie. Half a century later, his works invaded exhibitions and covered the whole world, and he deserved to be monopolized
On the cover of Time Magazine, as the first photographer whose picture occupies the cover of a high magazine at this level, in addition to that his photographic shots occupy the pages of nearly a million books.
To have the greatest amount of love and fame among photographers in the world in general and American photographers in particular, even though he was born in 1902.
In a way, Adams was considered a nineteenth-century artist whose work flourished in the twentieth century and whose portraits made him famous as works devoid of any kind of technical error, as well as usually devoid of the human element; They are landscape pictures that blend two different styles of American landscape art. One focuses on fact and the other on fiction.

In his trip to photographing mountains, Adams benefited from those who preceded him in this field, whether as photographers or painters. He benefited from the tendency of photographers towards looking and painters towards poetry. To present some of the works that preceded him in a different and distinctive style. In this regard, Adams says, people do not trust drawn paintings, but tend to believe photographs. .
From here, he worked to gain people's credibility for his works when he focused on the sincerity of the details in each of his shots. New Mexico, for example, it is certain that we can study each of its leaves with a magnifying glass, and when a field of stones is exposed, we can see the structure in each rock ball...
Despite this emphasis on the smallest details, Adams can also be ignored as a poetic photographer;

As for his influence on officials within the framework of his political orientation, he contributed to the establishment of a park. Kings Canyon, the National in Washington during the thirties .. when he returned with a set of photographs he took in California of Kings Canyon there. He sends letters of protest to newspapers and members of the US Congress, especially during the period when James Watt was Minister of the Interior.
And Ansel Adams is the inventor of the orbital system for exposure, and he is the professor of about five thousand students in the arts of photography, and the owner of publications is second to none. You should not take the picture, but make it.. Expression is the most powerful way to see.
Adams actually worked to embody this theory, as he used to make a pre-decision about the appearance of the photograph he made, rather than just taking and waiting for the result on film. Ansel Adams is one of the founders of the group. F / 64, which was founded in 1932 with Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Willard Fawdyke, who chose the name of their group from the smallest aperture lens available at that date, considering that it secures the most accurate
Sharper focus with the greatest possible depth of field.
Those who follow the Adams style are many, if they feel it or feel it, especially among the young photographers in America. John Cesar Koski of the Museum of Modern Art says about that, there are many American photographers who are unaware of my influence on Adams style »!
The first photographers intended to capture nature in the American West as they found it, as if they were explorers who had nothing to do with their work in terms of art. . Among the nineteenth-century painters, such as Bierstadt, Moran, and others, focused on the reportage style when they worked in the mountains and returned with completely honest pictures of what they saw there. But inside their studios, they abandoned honesty and began to put their touches on the pictures... They increased the clarity of the lakes, added a little height to the peaks, and decorated the mountains with waterfalls and rainbows, with touches of sunsets, people, or wild animals. He always admitted, for example, that from the site of the crosses at the forefront of his most famous photographic shots. The rising of the moon in order to make these crosses open a little and bring them closer to the appearance of ghosts. We point out here that one of the prints of this snapshot was recently sold for $71,500, despite the critics' assertion that it is just a spontaneous snapshot!

And if we knew that 942 prints were made of this snapshot by Adams, we can say that the photographer made a goose that lays golden eggs with one stroke of his shutter, as the returns of this snapshot alone, with its mentioned prints, could reach more than 17 million dollars! So what is the value of Ansel Adams' works as a whole, then?

Hence Harry Lane, the client who contributed to Adams' wealth, says there are two markets for photography, one for Lancel Adams, and another for all the rest of the photographers!
In addition to Adams, there are two American artists who are popular in the field of photography. They are Norman Rockwell and Andrew White. They tend to give their art a quality of emotional exaggeration that is not in it. Uneven standards.. and his worlds are never repeated in the same form, just as the landscape is not just a place, but an event!
We also mention that Ansel's nice pictures, his luxurious prints, and are considered as a reference that shows us the world in, and according to Cesar Coskey Adams, they are works that suggest publicity abroad as we want it to be.
Of course, when talking about a great photographer, it is necessary to talk about those who contributed to laying the foundation for it. We mention among these photographers Paul Strand, who is one of the most important photographers in the world and helped guide Adams to the path from which he will start towards this art. There is another photographer He is Alfred Stiegliter, who secured his first exhibition of his own alone 46 years ago. In response to those who accused him of turning into a photographer for postcards and calendars, Adams says:
- The interesting thing is that people look at my pictures and accept them on the grounds that they are the reality... In these pictures, something says this is the reality of the situation.. but the truth is not like this at all.
I do not want the image to reflect the shapes alone, but what happened that I saw and felt at the moment of the exposure.
Harry Gundjian New York -