Ansel Adams Snake river Review

Ansel Adams The Testons and the Snake River

Ansel Adams is quoted as saying, "You don't take a photograph, you make it." Adams is well known Photographer because of his impressive black and white landscapes which fill your eyes with immense pleasure and freshness. These photographs earned him the admiration of Photographers past and present. Adams had the ability to work exceptionally on higher ISO. His photographs were mostly pre planner but all of them had a message in them and he was really consistent with that. Adams spent his whole life conveying message of Beauty of nature and he did his job remarkably. He was like many artists, brain nervous child but full of energy and he had been doing photography since his childhood that is what made his work exceptional and mature. His work was about America, his thoughts were about America. He showed the beauty of America in his pictures. 

The Tetons and the Snake River is one his most famous pictures. This photograph of the Tetons and the Snake is really different than other common landscape pictures, as it is composed black and white, the photo makes the viewer focus on what the picture focal point actually is and not just the colours of the photo. Adams wants to show us how much meaning nature can truly have in our lives. Adams often went on walk in the wilderness and admired his environment and surroundings. I think that's what his pictures are about, placing us in the places he's been. His pictures give viewer the feeling as they are really present at that place and can feel what Adam felt while taking a shot. The connection between river and the mountains create tension in the picture. The flow of river has worked as a guiding lines in the picture that leads the viewer to the main subject and that is the most perfect example of well composed picture. Adam's photographs have everything to change the perspective of the viewer. It can actually change the way of viewer's thinking. Adams' photographs are very perceptual and tremendous art form. Adams actually succeeded to transform fragrances into pictures.

We won't be doing justice to current Photographers by saying that we can't reproduce his pictures. The main point is, what Adams has done in his time no one can ever compete that. He has done it before any one even think of it and that's what makes Adams one of the most successful Photographers of the century. 

- Kamran Yousaf