Ansel Adams (1902-1984), a world-renowned landscape photographer, the founder of the "Regional Exposure Method", a member of the prestigious f/64 photography team, and a generation of photography masters.
As a teenager, Adams was particularly interested in the western scenery of the vast wilderness of the United States. He uses the language of pure photography to depict the beauty of landscapes. When you admire his photos of the western scenery, people will suddenly rise to the sense of eternity coexisting with heaven and earth and life. His landscape photography, from the collision and fusion of science, beauty and nature, reaches the highest level of aesthetics.
He created the "area exposure method" scientific "pressure level exposure system", the photo tone is divided into 10 levels from pure black to pure white, while the scene is also divided into 10 levels of different brightness, shooting with exposure table scientific control, so as to determine the exposure and development printing time. In this way, the richness of the photo tone is maximized.
"When I see a good photo, I often hear music in the picture," he said. This is not a mysterious and self-made sentimentality, but a structural feeling, which is spontaneously generated by music from the photograph. ”
He learned piano from the age of 12, and his rigorous training in piano has given him an extremely sensitive and precise artistic appeal. Adams began learning photography and image rinsing techniques at the age of 14. He was born in San Francisco, and the strange landscape of nature around him deeply influenced the inner world of Adams's childhood.
Adams once said: "My exposure to photography is based on a belief in the magnificence and subtle landscapes that surround me. ”
Adams was an excellent musician. In 1920 he attended a concert at the age of 18. The first-class photographic darkroom production is actually due to his superb musical talent, skillful and sophisticated performance, so that he knows the depression of each movement and integrates it into his pre-shooting and post-darkroom, and he uses photography as an artistic performance.
In 1927, his first album, The Alpine Album, was published, and in 1936 he held a film festival at Stiglitz's gallery "American Place".
Adams landscape photography has an unshakable authority in the history of world photography. His works have a sense of music, philosophy and solemn classical beauty, which are the characteristics of his landscape works.
In his works, the rich tone and clarity between the various layers of black, white and gray are fully reflected.
Adams is a prime example of pure photography. He is a world-renowned pioneer of modern landscape photography; he is a generation of photography masters who combine fame and skill.
Adams's Moonrise, shot in the small town of Hernandez in New Mexico on October 31, 1941. In the vast night of his work, a half-moon-shaped bright moon hangs, and the night and clouds form a strong black and white contrast, and the moon is particularly prominent between black and white, which is the interesting center of the work. Distant mountains rise and fall between the horizon and the clouds. The moon shines with the sun, the small mountain village is hidden in the woods, and the sunset shines obliquely on the walls of the houses and above the church on the left.
Distant mountains, clouds, night sky, moon, churches, trees, slanting suns and beautiful small mountain villages are like a symphony with a beautiful melody and a strong rhythm, which is extremely beautiful and amazing.
Adams once commented on the work: "This photograph has undoubtedly generated more comments than any other photograph I have taken, indicating that the content and effect are extraordinary." ”
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Zhao Xusheng, a native of Suiping County, Henan Province, graduated from the Department of Literature of Henan University in the 1980s, is a famous photographer, a senior media person, a deputy editor-in-chief of central media, a chief reporter, and the founder of the Hundred Media Journalists Alliance.
Engaged in photography creation for more than 30 years, he has published more than 1,000 photographic works, photographed more than 3,000 portraits of celebrity stars and successful people, and won more than 200 award-winning works, and joined the International Photography Society, the China Art Photography Society, the Old Photographers Association of China, the China Senior Photographers Association, the China Senior Photographers Association, the China (Hong Kong) Photography Artists, and the director of the Image China Photography Center.