San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2016Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
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1902 San Francisco, California - 1984 Carmel, California. Known for: Western landscape photography.
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture" of the Yosemite Sierra; he spent substa... Read full biography
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
2016Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013
2014Fahlman, Betsy (Editor)217 pages (color)Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art
2013Ruud, Brandon K. (Editor); Jorge Daniel Veneciano (Introduction)242 pages (color)A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
2012
(Exhibition catalog)Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction80 pages (color)Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond
2012Fillmore, Gary288 pages (color)Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
2009Respini, Eva168 pages (color)The Power of Place: Paintings That Define the American Image
2008
(Exhibition catalog)Gilbert-Smith, Alma; Lonnie Pierson Dunbier and Jo Evarts23 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAccents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996Barbara and Peter Toohil363 pages (color)