Landscape photography biography samples
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Ansel Adams, Photographer – Bio
By William Turnage, Reprinted courtesy of the author and Oxford University Press
This Ansel Adams biography was published by Oxford University Press for its American National Biography.
Ansel Adams in front of his most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez”
Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907, and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup.
An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was decidedly Victorian and both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting ov
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Bio + Head Statement
Artist BIO:
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Jay Cossey's Photographs from Nature
Jay’s Biography
I was so fortunate to have been born into a nature-loving family. My father, Eric K. Cossey, was a draftsman by profession, but he had collected and reared butterflies and moths since he was a teenager. There were always caterpillars, chrysalises and cocoons in our house, so the miracle of metamorphosis was always on display in the Cossey household.
Dad had collected some great field guides and nature-related books, which I devoured as a child. I fantasized about some day seeing as many kinds of insect as possible. My favourite dreams always involved finding some butterflies I’d only ever seen in a book before. I was so disappointed to discover I’d only been dreaming when I awoke.
Nature publications with great photographs of live butterflies and other insects truly inspired me. I enjoyed collecting butterflies and moths, but I often dreamed of taking pictures of these ephemeral creatures. While my father took great care setting and preserving the specimens he kept, no dead specimen could fully capture the grace and fleeting beauty that expired once their lives were extinguished. Butterflies look great in a collection, but they’re far more beautiful in life.
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