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Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902, in Western Addition, San Francisco. He was a landscape photographer known for his black-and-white phot os He didn't only shoot black-and-white, but he preferred it over color . He was dyslexic and often times had trouble in school so he used photography to capture the reality he saw. He was known for his American landscape such as; mountains , trees, and snowstorms. He was a major pioneer for future generations of artists and photographers. Ansel Adams used visualization by capturing pictures of things he actually saw. He was more worried about documenting reality rather than what would be a beautiful subject. In the picture above, he takes pictures of a fishing cone. You can see the ripple and the nice tonalities throughout the picture. This picture is amazing! It has an amazing use of depth of field as well. You can see all the way in the back the beautiful horizon filled with snow in mountains. It is beautiful and amazing how someone c

Sebastiao Delgado is a 78-year-old Brazilian photojournalist that was born in Aimores, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is famous for traveling basically everywhere, in over 120 countries, for his photos. In these photos, he documents a love for nature and the socio-economic issues that impact us, humans. He was inspired by the revival of his land. Sebastiao wanted to properly preserve memories of places he went to, along with racing awareness of their destruction.  This black and white photograph is of Sebastiao in his homeland of Brazil. This piece also has a piece of his artwork in it. It is one of his most famous works and it shows seals and penguins on a muddy incline. I like this picture because it's an art piece in an art piece. I like how this self-portrait does not have him looking exactly into the camera, but at his artwork instead. This contains a lot of different tonalities and I enjoy the complexity of this piece. This picture is definitely the favorite that I have se

 Herb Ritts was born on August 13,1952 in Los Angeles. He became an American photographer and his specialty was in fashion. He was famous for revolutionizing fashion photography by modernizing nude photos and shooting icons. He would end up taking pictures of celebrities, models, or other cultural figures.    One of the more known people Herb photographed was Madonna. I enjoy the contrast between her skin and the jacket. This is one of my favorite pictures of his because of how beautiful it is. You have her strong jawline with nice shadows under and shadows behind her of what looks like to be a tree. Everything looks so nicely done and with her hair flowing backward, I believe it makes it go hand in hand with the background. The details in the jacket alone make this amazing.  With his nude pictures, Herb Ritts wanted to make a radical change in how nudes are depicted and only wanted it to be a form of art. You have different skin colors to have contrast and the woman are all bundled to