The story of the creation of the iconic image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, is well-known, thanks to Ansel Adams’s own narration of the event itself. His creation of this scene—defined by a pitch-black sky, a small but glowing moon, low white clouds, and a few trees, buildings, and...
Ansel Adams visited California’s spectacular Yosemite Valley for the first time in 1916. Awed by the beauty of the landscape, Adams took his earliest photographs of the park with a Brownie Box camera, returning every summer to photograph. While in his late teens, Adams spent his summers working as...
Bierstadt was an American artist who was born in Germany. He became famous for painting landscapes of the American West. He made oil...
