Ansel Adams and Robert Adams are famous for their captivating landscape photographs. Each photographer has his own perspective on what he wants to visually represent through his lens, and these two are extremely similar. Developing his first visualized photograph in 1927, Ansel Adams broke boundaries by setting an example that later influenced Robert Adams.

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco California on February 20th, 1902. Adams grew up amidst the Golden Gate, exposing him to beautiful landscapes. He was not known for his academic excellence, therefore he received what was basically considered an 8th grade diploma. Ansel Adams began playing the piano at the age of 12 and continued on, believing that would inevitably be his profession until his parents gave him a Kodak camera. Later, in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club as an environmentalist, which then catalyzed his career as a photographer. Although his photographs were incredibly admired, he was always financially unstable, leading him to partake in “commercial photography.” Because of this occupation he was able to become a technical master in both the “theory and practice of photography.” He used his photography to capture the nature in the west and his personal philosophy was that “humans could live in harmony with the environment” (Turnage).

Robert Adams, born in New Jersey in 1937, was able to establish a very similar photography style to Ansel Adams. His subject of many of his photographs are nature, which was taken amongst his walks. He captures the silence of the landscapes in Colorado and California and so forth. According to Sean O’Hagan, Robert Adams, “echo the pioneering landscape photography of his namesake [Ansel] Adams” (O’Hagan, The Guardian). Adams’s style of photography most definitely shadows Ansel Adams, being able to throw a modern curve to it.

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