Famous photographers
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American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in Connecticut. Her father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the USA Air Force, leading the family to move frequently, Leibovitz would take her first photographs while being stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. She went on to study painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, and simultaneously honed her camera skills.
In 1970 Leibovitz started working as a photographer at Rolling Stone magazine. Within three years she was named as the magazine’s Chief Photographer; and by 1983 she had moved on to Vanity Fair. During this decade, other artists, notably Richard Avedon and Henri Cartier-Bresson, influenced Leibovitz. She observed that one could carve a successful commercial career alongside personal projects.
Leibovitz continued her portrait photography for editorial and advertising campaigns, but gradually began to focus on her personal endeavours. Her work began to be exhibited in galleries and museums. In 1991 the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. mounted over 200 colour a
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Ansel Adams, Photographer – Bio
By William Turnage, Reprinted courtesy of the author and Oxford University Press
This Ansel Adams biography was published by Oxford University Press for its American National Biography.
Ansel Adams in front of his most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez”
Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907, and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup.
An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden
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Ansel Adams
American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks
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