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| Ansel Adams' Golden Gate Before the Bridge 1932 |
Adams photographs mainly focus on nature scenes. He was an environmentalist and enjoyed using the natural form of the picture without much editing. He experimented with several lenses to achieve the natural look that the picture would have had in real life. Also, he used sharp focuses to get crisp looking pictures. Most of Adam’s photographs are in black and white. Adams was a great photographer and his pictures will forever be respected. -LS
Ansel Adams’ Golden Gate Before the Bridge proves that a piece of time can be beautiful and historical. Although he was often criticized for not ever have taken pictures of mankind, Ansel continued to focus his camera lense on the plants and the true beauty of nature! Ansel didn't just take pictures of leaves and trees, he captured the emotions inside of them. This photograph was taken in black and white to add a more dramatic feel. Adams' work has continued to live even after his own death. -CW
Here are some questions to get you started in your discussion this week.
• What message is Adams trying to convey by using only black and white imagery?
• Have you noticed that some of the highly successful people tend to have rough childhoods and difficult lives? Do you think that this is just a coincidence, or is there something that hardship does to a person to make them strive for greatness?
• Why do you think Ansel disapproved of the lumber business his grandfather started?
San francisco is a great place to live. and also the Golden Gate bridge makes it a icon city. so that picture is great because it has realistic features. And the place where that is at is a place that will be a art of magic.
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I think he's trying to show that everything doesn't always have to be in a color like what we see now. Yes i did notice that others have a harder life than me and many other people. And also he's just trying to catch what he feels and not what he see's. I think he disagreed beacuse he didn't want to work on lumber and that kind of stuff, he wanted to be a photographer instead. To me there is something that hardship does to you. You want to do what you want and not what your parnets want you to do. You want to achieve your own goal and not what they always want. Which i think he is doing here he wanted to achieve his greatness.
ReplyDeleteAdams is trying to convey his view of the world. By using the black and white imagery you can really sit there and look at this picture and see the values and the different structures of this photo without being distracted by the colors. It makes you see things in different perspectives.
ReplyDeleteMany successful people have had rough childhoods, yet not many people with rough childhoods turn out successful. It does seem to force poeple to make a name for themselves and push themselves to greatness. But when some people are pushed they don't always have a good response.
Ansel Adams was a man of nature and art. I believe he disapproved of his grandfathers business because he saw him as a threat to nature, a thing he treasured most. He saw the beauty being tore down.
Sources:
Ansel Adams Biography. http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/adams.html
I agree with Chase Hofer in his saying that everything doesn't have to be seen in color is it is so often seen today.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with goodgrades statements about San Fransisco, it is a beautiful city and the Golden Gate bridge is iconic to the scenery.
By the way I signed into my wrong google account the one above is also me xP
i think he's trying to show the picture it just black and white but also beautiful. i did notice many people have harder life. He wanted to be a photographer.Many successful people have had rough childhoods.
ReplyDeletei agree with goodgrade that he's trying to show that everything doesn't always have to be in a color like what we see now.
Ansel Adam is best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West.He maybe try to tell that the picture can be beautiful even use just balck and white.
ReplyDeleteI notice that many successfull artists had a hard time in their childhood. May be they had a respiration and tried to tell their hard time into their artworks.
He did that to hos grandfather because he wanted to be a photographer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
I think it is black and white to make it mysterious and look old. Photographers dont make a lot of money and struggle. I think they have pictures in black and white because that is how they felt growing up, sad. I agree with dragonflybaby1996 that Ansel Adams was a man of nature and art. I believe he disapproved of his grandfathers business because he saw him as a threat to nature, a thing he treasured most. He saw the beauty being tore down.
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I think he wants to show that black and white is beautiful and that not everything must me in color to express something.
ReplyDeleteMany highly successful people have rough childhoods and difficult lives.
There is something that hardship do the people and everyone has own goals. He wanted to achieve his greatness. He wanted to be a photograph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
I agree with ds3112 that the black and white make it mysterious and look old. I also agree with ds3112 that the black and white shows how he felt growing up, maybe sad.
ReplyDeleteAnsel want to show that picture can be beautiful even black and white. I notice that many achieve artists had a hard time in their childhood. He is the best black-white photoghaper. i think it relate because alot artist have had hard life so they also had value experience.
ReplyDeletei agree with Praewa that May be they had a respiration and tried to tell their hard time into their artworks.
I think the artist wanted to show that nature is beautiful in black and white as well as color. I believe that successful people who grew up in poverty and became successful do strive for their future. They want to make something of themselves and have a bright future. Success isn't just handed to you, you have to work for it! I think Ansel disapproved of his grandfather's lumber company because he loved nature and didn't like seeing trees die because of the lumber company.
ReplyDeleteI agree with dragonflybaby because Ansel did see the lumber company as a threat to nature and his art because his artwork often portrayed nature.
I agree with dragonflybaby1996 that he disapproved of his grandfathers business because he saw him as a threat to nature, a thing he treasured most.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Goodgrade that San francisco is a great place to live.
The black and white together with the nature makes the picture timeless. You are not able to tell when he took it and it’s always going to be modern, because it does not depend on fashion or something that change through time.
ReplyDeleteI guess that the successful people with a harsh childhood are more remarkable, because many people did not belief in them and thought that they never become something, but I also think that that gives them a certain kind of straight, because they want to prove that they are able to do something. And sometimes folks just became famous because they had a hard life as children and others feel sorry for them.
I would think that he disapproved his grandfathers’ lumber business because he discovered the beauty of nature and wanted to save it by not take over the business and by taking photographs.
And I totally agree with Jeremys’ point that “Success isn't just handed to you, you have to work for it!”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
Adams is trying to convey by using only black and white imagery to show that life can be beautiful from something so plain. Yes I have noticed that some of the highly successful people tend to have rough childhoods and difficult lives. I think that hardship does something to a person to make them strive for greatness, to show people you don’t have to have to be rich or famous to create something so wonderful. I agree with dragonflybaby1996 on how Ansel disapproved of the lumber business his grandfather started because he was a man of nature and thought his grandfather was a threat to nature.
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He used black and white photography because he felt that he could control the outcome. The color photography just couldn't hold up to the black and white. I agree with Ry that many successful people have had rough childhoods but a rough childhood doesn't guarantee success in life. I think he disaproved of his grandfather's lumber business because he was and conservationist and loved nature and his grandfather was threatening that.
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Ansel was an artist who loved nature. He disliked his grandfather’s lumber business because it was destroying the nature that Ansel loved so much. He did his photography in black and white because maybe he didn’t like them in color, or because he wanted to focus on the pictures as a whole instead of the individual colors. He wanted people to appreciate nature as much as he did. I agree with dragonflybaby 1996 when she said that Ansel saw his grandfather’s business as a threat to nature
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ansel_adams
Students that have rough childhood tend to go and achieve greatness because their parents might tell them that they will never amount to anything and they will never achieve anything so they go out a prove their parents wrong. Adams didnt approve of his grandfather's lumber company because was an enviornmentalist and didnt want anything to destroy the earths nature or animals. I was trained to assume that art related to the elusive quality of beauty and that the purpose of art was concerned with the elevation of the spirit (horrible Victorian notion!!)"
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By using black and white it shows that nature is beautiful even without color.
ReplyDeleteA lot of successful people have gone through hardships. Going through hardships gives people a reason to try so they can make a better life for themselves.
If he was a environmentalist then it means that he does not want nature to be destroyed, and his grandfather’s lumber business destroyed trees.
I agree with ChaseHofer that not everything has to be in color to see the beauty in it.
I think that by using black and white he is just trying to show that not everything has to be in color in order for it to be noticed or taken into thought. I think that black and white art shows a different way of creating beauty and differnece in ones own eye of creation. It doesnt have to be in color to look amazing theres different meanings to differnet colors of art. I believe that people go through hardships everyday of their lives and all they can do is keep trying, and striving to be successful. Theres no reason to give up and quit trying. I think that there are more successful people out there with rough lifes then there are with good lifes. The people that have to strive and try hard everyday to be successful are the ones that we should all look up to, i think that these people learned from the hardships they went through and it made them become a better person. So they showed the world what they can do, and wanted people to see that they can have faith in them. Ansel is an environmentalist. That means that he cares about the environment and hates that nature is destroyeed. His grandfathers business destroyed nature and it made him unhappy. So he disagreed. I agree with chase, i think that he is most def right that not all art has to be in color to see beauty apart of it. Its the feelings that matter the most.
ReplyDeleteI think that by him using black in white could show a different outcome what there is that could be, and that you don't need to have color to show the essence of his works. black and white kind of makes you think a little more to how you want it to be, not how it is. It shows that there is more than just one way for it to be how it is.
ReplyDeleteSome people who have had rough childhoods, in my opinion, are more able to and willing to show how they feel and are better able to express how they feel too. As for them having a rough childhood, they themselves dedicate themsevles to strive for excilence to prove to themselves that their childhood doesn't mattetr how they live in todays world.
I think that he didn't like his grandfather's lumbering, because he liked the way nature looked, and how it made you feel, and by his grandfather being a lumberer, it threatened the reall beauty of nature.
I agree with Shelby's comment; "I think that there are more successful people out there with rough lifes then there are with good lifes. The people that have to strive and try hard everyday to be successful are the ones that we should all look up to, i think that these people learned from the hardships they went through and it made them become a better person."
ReplyDeletebecause I also think that more people with harder lives are more succesful in the long run.