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Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. At the age of 14, Adams was given a “Kodak Box Brownie” (a simple, inexpensive camera) when his family took a vacation to Yosemite National Park. The introduction to photography gave him the ability to record the beautiful sights of the park, and he continued to do so for the remainder of his life. After being torn between becoming a pianist or a photographer, Adams decided to become a professional photographer in 1930. After exposure to similar photographs, Adams’ photography style tended to be realistic and pure. He, with fellow photographers, created an exhibition of simplistic, sharply focused grayscale photographs, unlike the dramatic, unrealistic photos of the time. Other photographers felt that political and social problems warranted more importance for photography, such as the depression and the dust bowl, but Adams felt the character of the American wild needed to be preserved. His ideas were not widely accepted until the next generation; despite the criticism, he continued his passion. Adams photographed mundane items for catalogs in order to pay the bills and leave him free to pursue his love of photographing the American West. He photographed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; everything from the mountains, canyons, lakes and clouds. Adams also contributed to the field of documentary photography, though he never became a prominent figure in that field. His most influential contribution to documentary photography was his commission to photograph the lives of the Nisei living in the Manzanar War Relocation Camp. He published “Born Free and Equal” with all of these photographs, but the war torn nation didn’t want to view the Japanese as anything but the enemy. After 1950, Adams produced few noteworthy photographs; rather he edited photography books of his own work and revisited his old pictures. Adams died at the age of 82 from a heart attack on April 22, 1984.

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**keep documentation** of what you did so you can reconstruct the outcome on the final print. (this will be demonstrated in class). Use this form [|teststrip.doc] Please [|read] this article while you are waiting for your turn. To see printing process read below ||< 20 || Please name with your full name plus finished ||< 20 ||
 * < 1 ||< Choose an image and prepare the image to print
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 * < 2 ||< Use printer to test the exposure for 3 different settings for your one image print, and then hand in along with test strip sheet below by Wednesday October 13. You need to
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