Assignment 2: Photographers

Fine art photographer:
http://www.anseladams.com/

Ansel Adams (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California. The most important result of Adams's childhood was the joy that he found in nature, as evidenced by his taking long walks in the still-wild reaches of the Golden Gate. Nearly every day found him hiking the dunes or meandering along Lobos Creek, down to Baker Beach, or out to the very edge of the American continent. When Adams was twelve he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Soon he was taking lessons, and the ardent pursuit of music became his substitute for formal schooling. For the next dozen years the piano was Adams's primary occupation and, by 1920, his intended profession. He began using the Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie his parents had given him. He hiked, climbed, and explored, gaining self-esteem and self-confidence. His first published photographs and writings appeared in the Sierra club's 1922 Bulletin, and he had his first one man exhibition in 1928 at the club's San Francisco headquarters.  By 1934 Adams had been elected to the club's board of directors and was well established as both the artist of the Sierra Nevada and the defender of Yosemite. The renowned Group f/64 founded in 1932. San Francisco's DeYoung Museum promptly gave f/64 an exhibition and, in that same year, gave Adams his first one-man museum show. Adams described himself as a photographer — lecturer — writer. It would perhaps be more accurate to say that he was simply — indeed, compulsively — a communicator. He endlessly traveled the country in pursuit of both the natural beauty he revered and photographed and the audiences he required. Seen in a more traditional art history context, Adams was the last and defining figure in the romantic tradition of nineteenth-century American landscape painting and photography. Adams always claimed he was not "influenced," but, consciously or unconsciously, he was firmly in the tradition of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Carlton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge.

Commercial photographer:
http://www.cyrillagel.com/

Cyril Lagel, a French professional photographer, has a glamour and fashion portfolio that is among the best in France, and the world. Cyril's ability to capture the beauty of a woman on film became evident the moment we laid eyes on his work. Cyril's images not only show us the beauty of the female human form, but they also serve to covey a sense of power and confidence in the women he photographs. Being relatively new to the profession with only three years under his belt as a professional photographer, Cyril's work shows a lot of promise as being one of the best in this field.