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Ansel Adams had a distinct style that truly defined photography as an art, rather than just nice photographs. However, some chose to criticize him rather than call him in artist. As “Cartier Bresson wrote” in 1952, Landscape in itself was not considered worthy as a subject for photography, but now in this crisis with the world maybe going to pieces-to photograph a landscape! Adams was also criticized for the lack of humanity, or any other kind …

…so old, yet so advanced in even today’s world. “Adams was not just interested in taking the photographs but to educate and enlighten all with the knowledge he has gained over the years. He invented the zone system for the pre-visualization of images, considered by him to be the crucial element between artistic interpretation and photographic technology.”(Newhall,27). “Adams said” my work has no secrets, it just takes a lot of time and effort.