Assignment 2:


PHOTOGRAPHERS

Photo Journalist 

Scott Serfas is a world famous photo journalist who was born in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. When he was sixteen he got into a church organization and got forced to ski on hard terrain. This was the moment when he discovered a stimulation for air time photography. After he escaped the church program he bought his first own snowboard. In the early 1990's he acquired his firs Canon camera. With his new camera he started to shoot photographs of freestyle snowboarders and finally got the courage to send some of the pictures to Concrete Powder Magazine. After his picture got published in the Concrete Powder Magazine he became more famous in the snowboarding scene. In 1998 the worlds biggest snowboarding magazine Transworld SNOWboarding (TWS), recruited him as a senior photographer. He still works for TWS and has thousands of snowboarding, surfing and skating pictures published and more than 50 covers to his name. But he also publishes pictures of environment and people.
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Fine Art Photographer

Ansel Adams (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984) was born in San Francisco, California. When he was young he has problems fitting into a school because he had a broken nose. But his father was very supportive to him. So his father and his aunt tutored him at home. When he got older he started using a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie his parents had given him to take pictures in Yosemite national park. He climbed, hiked and explored the nature and gained self-confidence. In 1919 he joined the Sierra Club and spent the first of four summers in Yosemite Valley, as "keeper" of the club's LeConte Memorial Lodge. His first photographs were published in the club's 1922 Bulletin. By 1934 Adams had been elected to the club's board of directors and was well established as both the artist of the Sierra Nevada and the defender of Yosemite. In 1932 San Francisco's DeYoung Museum gave Adams his first one-man museum show. In the early 1930s he rapidly became more famous. In 1933 the Delphic Gallery gave Adams his first New York show. Alfred Stieglitz, a friend of Adams' gave Adams a one-man show at An American Place in 1936. At this time he became very busy. He also started to write books and an auto-biography. When Adams died in Monterey, California on April 22^nd 1984 his biography wasn't finished.

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