9/18/2022
9/18/2022
SOuthern new hampshire university
SOuthern new hampshire university
Robert Adams
Fas 375 Milestone one
Robert Adams
Fas 375 Milestone one
Robert Adams was a self-taught American landscape photographer. He was born on May 8, 1937, in Orange New Jersey. Adams was raised in the suburbs of Denver Colorado. As he was growing up, he attended the University of Colorado. He later switched colleges to University of Southern California where he graduated with a B.A in English. In 1963, Adams decided to buy a 35 mm reflex camera. Adams started taking photos mostly of architectures and landscapes. (Wikipedia contributors. “Robert Adams (photographer).” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 5 Aug. 2022. Web. 17 Sep. 2022.)
The aesthetic work of Adams is nothing more than elegant and exquisite. The way he captures his work is just breathtaking. The way he uses certain things like trees in his photos as his depth of field. The way he uses angles to capture the most appealing photos is what makes his photos stand out to me. These works inspire me because I love nature and landscape. I take a lot of photos outside of anything and everything I find that has beauty in it. They are very clear, but what also makes them stand out is the contrast as well as them being in black and white.
In the photo “Summer Nights,” a gelatin silver print Adams uses the smaller tree as his depth of field to capture a beautiful landscape. Adams captured the sky, but it appears to me that it was a cloudy day when he took the photo. It also seems like it was sunset due to the low lighting in most of the photo. So, there was no way Adams could have added brightness to his photo unless he used a flash. Adams added contrast to his photos because he was the one who figured out how to use contrast when developing his photos. Also, in this photo you can see a grassy field. In this grassy field, you can slightly see a post and a wire running through it. In the left-hand corner, you can see a tree overhanging.
In the “untitled” photo, a negative print it appears to me that the photo was taken right after sunrise due to the photo being so bright. Also, in this photo you can see a tire that sits in the mud on the bank before the trees. Adams saw these four trees standing on the far side of the pond and saw a beautiful photo. The way he captured the reflection of the trees on the surface of water is exquisite. There is nothing more beautiful when four elements make an exquisite photo. Those elements are the sky, land, trees, and water. Adams added these elements because he felt these elements accommodated each other.
Every photo that Adams had taken encompasses most of these elements in them for landscape photos. There are some photos of Adams that have a different element added to it for example in the photo “Summer Nights” there is a post with some fence in it. That is a different element from the water, sky, land, grass, and trees. Also, you can see in both photos I have chosen you can see that there are four of the five elements in the photo that are the same. You can see in both photographs that there is the sky, trees, and land that compliments each other.
When I look at these photos I can feel a sense of calmness, simplicity, peace, decompress and tranquility that helps me relieve stress and takes me to a calm place in a midst of a busy/hectic day. The beauty of nature or the simplicity which in many respects, soothes the soul when looking at these photographs. These types of elements are what inspired me to choose this photographer because he understands these elements. Adams used contrast in this photo with how clear this photo is as well as the brightness of the photo. Adams took advantage of the sun when it was out so most of his photos would not come out dark. There are some photos that are dark, but you are still able to make out what he took a photo of. Adams had to print all his photos in black and white because that is all they had back in that time era.
Medium:
Summer Nights (Getty Museum)
1985
Robert Adams (American, born 1937)
Gelatin silver print
12.7 × 12.7 cm (5 × 5 in.); 2003.482.6
Medium:
Untitled (Getty Museum)
negative 1977
print 1982
Robert Adams (American, born 1937)
Gelatin silver print
22.5 × 28.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.); 2003.117.22
Medium:
Ansel Adams
Afternoon Sun, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon1943
Gelatin silver print, printed 1950
Dimensions:
9 1/4 × 7 1/4″ (23.6 × 18.5 cm)
Medium:
Robert Adams
Along St. Vrain Creek, West of Longmont, Colorado 1986
Gelatin silver prints
Dimensions:
each 7 13/16 × 5 1/4″ (19.9 × 13.3 cm)
Ansel Adams had made a huge impact on Robert Adams photography life. When Robert was growing up, he studied Ansel’s photographs. What Robert saw was beauty, beauty to him is a word for wholeness. So, what Robert Adams does when he took his photos top try to get them as close to Ansel Adams is he looked through the lens. Then Robert asked himself, do all the pieces fit together? Are they a unified, balanced, coherent whole? If he felt, they were he would snap the photo. Robert Adams loved photographing mountains, landscape, trees, rivers, some architectures, and interstates to capture how much things have evolved over time since the snap of the photograph.
Ansel Adams loved to preserve the wildlife which is like landscapes. It appeared that Both Ansel and Robert both liked the same type of photography. In their photos you can see architectures, mountains, water, trees, and rivers. They both are from different time periods but still too similar photos. Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902. In 1920 until his death in 1984 Ansel Adams was photographing for 20 years.
In Ansel Adams photo “Afternoon Sun” you can see there are a lot of elements in his photo. First, I want to point out the angle Ansel decided to take his photo as you can see it is not at eye level, but in fact that it is above level ground. Ansel must have gone for a small hike in the morning to be able to capture this picture. This would make for a higher elevation for the mountain. Elevation can play a factor in the different seasons. If you look on the mountain side, you can see snow on it. To me when I see snow all I can think about is that it is way too cold on the mountain. Depending on the time of the year the temperature can play a factor in the snow. Another thing I think of that the snow could be melting because it could be becoming springtime. When there is snow on the grass it also makes the grass pop because of the colors. If you look far out on the water, it looks as if there was a small path to go through the mountain even though it is closed over there.
Reference Page
https://www.getty.edu/search/?qt=Robertadams&pg=3
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1095NN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adams_(photographer)#Workx
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/58256
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/56723
Final Project One Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: In your first milestone, you introduced your chosen photographer and investigated his or her background. Then, you analyzed the photographer’s work to identify aesthetic properties and defining qualities. In this next step, you will build on that initial analysis and identify the philosophical ideas that you think are evidenced in the photographer’s work. Then, you will compare his or her work with the work of another photographer from a different time period to consider how the aesthetic principles evidenced in your chosen photographer’s work are enduring or continue to influence photography.
Prompt: In this milestone, you will discuss the philosophical influences of your chosen photographer and compare his or her interpretation of those ideas with the interpretations of another photographer. Be sure to include images with your essay that represent and support your discussion.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your comparison essay:
II. Influential Philosophy: In this section, you will explore the influence of philosophers and their ideas about aesthetics that you identified in the previous section. You will also discuss how these ideas have been interpreted in other photographs by other photographers.
Based on the composition of your chosen photographer’s work, explain which philosophers and/or specific philosophical ideas about aesthetics you think were most influential. Support your explanation with specific examples from the photographer’s work.
Describe how photographs from other photographers from different time periods represent the same philosophical ideas. Support your description with a comparison of your chosen photographer’s work with the work of a photographer from another time period.
Compare the interpretations of the philosophical ideas by the different photographers, including the photographer you originally identified. Support your response with specific qualities evident in the photographs.
Explain why you think philosophical ideas about aesthetics continue to be influential and enduring throughout time. Support your explanation with specific examples of this influence on photography.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Milestone Two should be 3 to 4 pages (including images) in length with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and
adherence to industry-appropriate guidelines for formatting and citing sources. Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident
Influential Philosophy: Philosopher(s)
Explains which philosophers or ideas most influenced the chosen photographer, including the specific philosophical ideas about aesthetics that were most influential, and supports explanation with specific examples
Attempts to explain which philosophers or ideas most influenced the chosen photographer, including the specific philosophical ideas about aesthetics that were most influential, but explanation is illogical, contains inaccuracies, or is not supported with specific examples that effectively support the explanation
Does not explain which philosophers most influenced the chosen photographer
Influential Philosophy: Other Photographers
Describes how other photographs from different photographers represent the same philosophical ideas with support from specific examples
Attempts to describe how other photographs from different photographers represent the same philosophical ideas, but description is cursory or contains inaccuracies
Does not describe how other photographs from different photographers represent the same philosophical ideas
Influential Philosophy: Interpretation
Compares the interpretation of the philosophical ideas by different photographers, including the photographer originally identified, with support from specific qualities evident in the photographs
Attempts to compare the interpretation of the philosophical ideas by different photographers, including the photographer originally identified, with support from specific qualities evident in the photographs, but comparison is cursory or illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not compare the interpretation of the philosophical ideas by different photographers, including the photographer originally identified
Influential Philosophy: Influential and Enduring
Explains why philosophical ideas about aesthetics continue to be influential and enduring throughout time with support from specific examples relevant to the influence of these ideas on photography
Attempts to explain why philosophical ideas about aesthetics continue to be influential and enduring throughout time with support from specific examples, but explanation is cursory or illogical or contains inaccuracies, or examples used are not relevant to the influence of these ideas on photography
Does not explain why philosophical ideas about aesthetics continue to be influential and enduring throughout time
Articulation of Response
Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas
