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Birth
1902 (San Francisco, California)
Death
1984 (Carmel, California)
Lived/Active
California
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western landscape photography
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| 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, disciplin (showing 500 of 5600 characters). |
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