Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

    Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984 in Monterey, California at the age of 82 of a heart attack. In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, he broke his nose, but as it was never properly set, he had a crooked nose for the rest of his life. He was tutored by his parents until 8th grade, in which he graduated 8th grade from the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School. Then he learned to play the piano and read music by himself, and that became his intended profession and substitute for formal schooling until he was 24, when he traded it for photography. In 1928, Adams married Virginia Best, and they had two kids.
    Adams joined the Sierra Club in 1919 and that boosted his success considerably as a new photographer. Albert Bender, a San Francisco patron of arts and artists, helped set in motion Ansel Adams's first portfolio, called the Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. Bender was also influential in the transition of musician to photographer for Adams. In 1927 Adams met Edward Weston, and they became friends and colleagues.
    Adam's "jobs", or commercial work were clients, the National Park Service, Kodak, IBM, AT&T, a small women’s college, a dried fruit company, and the Life, Fortune, and Arizona Highways magazines. Some books that Ansel Adams published are The Negative, The Camera, and The Print, along with 7 others. Adams also created the "zone system", in which you can control and relate exposure and development.

Two Pictures I liked from Ansel Adams

Sources:

http://www.biography.com/people/ansel-adams-9175697#early-life
http://www.anseladams.com/270/
http://www.anseladamsbooks.com/techbooks.html