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| Ansel Adams stands as one of America's greatest landscape photographers. Born in San Francisco, Adams was trained as a concert pianist. His first photographs were made at the age of 14 using a Kodak Brownie camera during a visit to Yosemite Valley with his parents. This visit strongly influenced the course of Adams' life. By age 30, he had changed his path and chosen a career in photography. Adams' photographs are elegantly composed and technically flawless. Ansel Adams proved a tireless investigation of the methods of photography, pioneering a method called The Zone System, a technique which allows photographers to translate the light they see into specific densities on negatives and paper, thus giving better control over finished images. Throughout his career, Ansel Adams became well known for the clarity of his instruction and his hands-on workshop approach to the medium. Ansel Adams advocated the role of photography as a fine art, inspiring new ways of seeing and communicating. He influenced generations of photographers though his teaching, practice, and publishing endeavors, and has gained standing as one of America's best-known photographer. Adams took Roots, Foster Gardens, Honolulu, on a visit in 1948. Foster Gardens was established in 1853 and expands over 13 acres, making it the oldest garden in Hawaii. More than 75,000 visitors walk through these gardens annually, decorated with exotic and tropical plant species.  (For Grades K-2) What type of animal do the roots look like? How many different types of plants do you see around the tree's roots? What lines do you see in this photograph? Which shapes? What do you think the roots would feel like if you could touch them? Have you ever seen anything like these roots before? If so, where? |
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Ansel Easton Adams American, 1902-1984 Roots, Foster Gardens, Honolulu Gelatin Silver Print, ca. 1948 Collection Museum of Photographic Arts Gift of Joseph Isaacson 1995.001.002 © Trustees of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust |
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