Curated OER
Black & White Drama
Students explore Ansel Adams's dramatic black and white mountain landscape photographs. They identify common geographic elements and animals indigenous to the Sierra Nevada and create original art in black and white to depict light and...
Curated OER
Values and Composition
Students examine and analyze the values of gray and the composition in photographs by Ansel Adams. They discuss elements of art, draw shapes and lines, complete a tone rectangle, and create a still life drawing.
Other
Z Pub: Ansel Adams
ZPub offers excellent information on photographer and artist, Ansel Adams (1902-1984 CE). Includes biography, timeline, images, books, and links.
Other
The Sierra Club: Ansel Adams
The Sierra Club provides a comprehensive look at the life and work of Ansel Adams. Content includes a biography, photo gallery, excerpts of a PBS documentary, and much more!
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens
"The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," features 84 photographs from the early years of photography in the 1850s through the 20th century. Included in the collection are works by early, modern, and...
New York Times
New York Times: An in Depth History of Group F.64
This article is based on a book by Mary Street Alinder, who had worked with Anselm Adams. Group f.64 was a group of photographers in the 1930s who advocated for a pure style of photography.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar
Resource provides vivid photographs taken by Ansel Adams at the Manzanar Relocation Camp for Japanese-Americans.
US National Archives
Nara: American Originals:exploring the Southwest: Don Diego De Vargas
This site from the National Archives and Records Administration, describes the colonization of the United States by the Spanish. Learn about Don Diego de Vargas, read his will, and view a photo of the area he colonized.
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Ansel Adams Gallery
A site featuring the breathtaking photography of Ansel Adams plus works of other contemporary landscape photographers. A fascinating collection of nature seen in black and white.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ansel Adams
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Ansel Adams in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Ansel Adams
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a brief biography of the photographer Ansel Adams and his straight photography style. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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Weston Gallery: Artist: Ansel Adams
A selection of Ansel Adams's photographs from the Weston Gallery are displayed online.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
The History Place
The History Place: Best of Ansel Adams
Here at "The History Place" is an online exhibit of 25 black and white photographs by Ansel Adams. A very interesting place to view his best work, and worth checking out.
Morning Earth
Morning Earth: Ansel Adams
This brief site provides a short biography of Ansel Adams, a collection of interesting Ansel Adams quotes, and seven beautiful black and white photos from the Ansel Adams collection.
Curated OER
Ansel Adams:10
ZPub offers excellent information on photographer and artist, Ansel Adams (1902-1984 CE). Includes biography, timeline, images, books, and links.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Photographer
Cartoon of photographer Ansel Adams with his camera.