Essays on Ansel

Ansel Easton Adams is a renowned photographer in America. He was born in the year 1902 February the 20th in the Western Francisco, California. In the year 1927, he had his very first portfolio produced which was called Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. In this portfolio, he featured his famous photograph Monolith the Face of Half Dome. This portfolio earned him a good amount, 3900 dollars. In the 1930's, he published books on photography and laid to rest on April the 22nd 1984.Adam is popularly known for the black and white landscape photographs where he featured the American West mainly ...

Introduction

It is important for every organization to have great leaders under whose direction the organization achieves its goals and celebrates success. A leader is the one who has strong focus on the vision and goals of an organization and remains in pursuit of achieving the goals. The characteristics of a leader enable him to influence and motivate his or her sub-ordinates and team members to achieve targets. Without effective leadership, it is not possible for an organization to achieve its goals and targets. Thus, poor leadership could lead to poor management and organizational failure. This paper will discuss great influential ...

This chapter explores various techniques to approximate ``Yosemite moonrises “photograph dates as drawn by Anselm.Yosemite national park forms a background for the formation of moonbows and moonrises. A moonbow is formed as a result of absence of a clear sensitivity at night by the eyes (Olson, 114, 2013). Moon and half dome are some of the most important photography of Anselm. However, the photograph ``moon and half dome, Yosemite national park” is dated 1960.Howevere, 1960 could not be the precise date an aspect that is linked to Anselm’s claim that his dates are guesses. The “Half dome refers to when ...

Robert Hayden is considered to be one of the greatest African-American poets of the 20th century; writing many poems about the black experience, both contemporary and historical, Hayden also managed to tackle universal themes of loneliness, desperation, parental approval and freedom. Hayden’s work was deeply rooted in the plight of African-Americans, many poems dealing directly with the anxieties and tensions that existed for minorities even during his time. Living through segregation-era America and the Civil Rights Movement, Hayden’s work becomes seemingly synonymous with the struggles of black people to have a voice in culture and art. In ...

According to Ansel Adams, art comprises of both love and friendship. Love is viewed as the resonance of the physical and spiritual things. Friendship is also considered as part of love and full of accepting and transmitting things like grass and thunderclouds. According to Ansel, art is more than kindness and it involves the taking and giving of beautiful things, the wonderful and tragic truths concerning men and the earth. The arts are also viewed as a subdivision of cultures that consists many art forms that are united through the employment of the human creative impulse. The other divisions ...

Ansel Addams

If were to be photographed, my photographer of choice would be Ansel Adams. This person was both a photographer as well as an environmentalist. This photographer gave more emphasis and focus on the environment and this gave him an opportunity to explore into the environmental factors and forces in relation to the photography and the general landscape of the environment concerned. He took most of his photographs at the national park since he liked association with the environment and this gave him a field or platform to enhance his skills. His creativity in relation to the quality of the print made ...

Photography and Rhetoric

The photograph Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California caught my eye in the gallery. It is a from Ansel Adam’s amazing work photographing the Yosemite National Park. The beauty of the photo cannot be exaggerated. Although the photo is in black and white it is clearly depicting one of the most beautiful places in the USA. A viewer may not even notice that the photograph is not in color because of the detail. On the right side of the valley a butte is majestically standing over a cloud. On the left is a smaller butte which is not flat on ...