Summary of Ansel Adams & Mary Street Alinder's Ansel Adams

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#1 I never intentionally made a creative photograph that related directly to an environmental issue, though I am greatly pleased when a picture I have made becomes useful to an important cause. I cannot command the creative impulse on demand. I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that interests me.

#2 I can still remember the light and the scene that was present when I was a child. I constantly return to the elements of nature that surrounded me in my childhood, both the vision and the mood.

#3 I was born in San Francisco in 1902. My father was building a house on the dunes out beyond the Golden Gate, which was thirty years before the famous bridge was built to connect San Francisco to Marin County. I could see ships of every description enter and leave the embrace of the Golden Gate.

#4 My father took a daily carriage from the end of the cable car line at Presidio Avenue to our home. On April 17, 1906, my father was away on business in Washington, D. C. Our Chinese cook, Kong, slept in the basement. That evening, the boom of the surf pounding on Baker Beach woke me up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822541252

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Insights on Ansel Adams & Mary Street Alinder's Ansel Adams

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I never intentionally made a creative photograph that related directly to an environmental issue, though I am greatly pleased when a picture I have made becomes useful to an important cause. I cannot command the creative impulse on demand. I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that interests me.

#2

I can still remember the light and the scene that was present when I was a child. I constantly return to the elements of nature that surrounded me in my childhood, both the vision and the mood.

#3

I was born in San Francisco in 1902. My father was building a house on the dunes out beyond the Golden Gate, which was thirty years before the famous bridge was built to connect San Francisco to Marin County. I could see ships of every description enter and leave the embrace of the Golden Gate.

#4

My father took a daily carriage from the end of the cable car line at Presidio Avenue to our home. On April 17, 1906, my father was away on business in Washington, D. C. Our Chinese cook, Kong, slept in the basement. That evening, the boom of the surf pounding on Baker Beach woke me up.

#5

I was four years old when the earthquake hit, and I remember the confusion that followed. I saw vast curtains of smoke by day and walls of flame by night filling a good part of the eastern horizon.

#6

I experienced the earthquake and fire that destroyed San Francisco in 1906, but I was not burned out or ruined. I never went to war, and my world was a world few people are lucky enough to live in - one of peace and beauty.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had a difficult childhood, with many illnesses and poor teeth. I was prone to frequent illness, and I wanted to run down to the beach and expend the pent-up physical energy that fermented within me.

#2

I had many leisure activities as a child, including collecting insects, roller skating, golfing, and cribbage. I had no interest in spectator sports, and I could not rouse the patience required for bridge or poker.

#3

I loved to roam around my neighborhood and explore. I was always on the lookout for interesting things to do, and I would find them. I would take things home and experiment with them, often discovering new things.

#4

I was enrolled in a succession of schools. By the time I was 12, I had developed a behavior pattern that if I became bored with anything, I would drop it. I longed for the outdoors, leaving only