Ansel adams biography pbs tv
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Ansel adams biography pbs tv
Ansel Adams
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Arts, BiographyDocumentary hosted by David Ogden Stiers, published by PBS broadcasted as part of PBS American Experience series in 2002 - English narration
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From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." This youthful awakening to the sublime power of the wilderness was the beginning of a lifelong journey for Adams -- a quest in which he would discover the power of photography to reveal mankind's place in the natural world.
His work was part of an extraordinary revolution in photography that sought to capture what Adams called "the continuous beauty of things that are," the landscape of the North American continent. More than any other artist of the twentieth century, Adams helped transform the meaning of wilderness in America; his