Ansel Adams: School Photogapher

[CameraQuest]

Once upon a time Ansel Adams was an unknown working stiff photographer, working for the buck just like every other unknown photog starting out.

In 1941 Ansel labored at the Chadwick School in Palos Verdes (an affluent California seaside community between LAX and Long Beach) to help produce Chadwick's 5th Anniversary catalog. Those long forgotten pics are now proudly on display at Chadwick. Unfortunately for some schools, Ansel eventually gave up school pictures for greener pastures.

the story is in the Los Angeles Times January 20, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-ansel-adams-20110120,0,456480.story

Stephen

 

[wlewisiii]

Huh? I suspect a wee bit of sarcasm? In 1941 Adams was very well known in art circles - Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico was a 1941 exposure & that's the same year he got the Department of Interior contract.

Would have been nice to go to a school like that one. Might have made high school something other than years of hell.

 

[newspaperguy]

So cool... thanks for sharing.

 

[lilmsmaggie]

Would have been nice to go to a school like that one. Might have made high school something other than years of hell.

Very Preppie I'm sure. Not bad on the salary of a retired Navy Lt. CMDR., or even full CMDR. Considering a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy at that time was pulling down about $60-$70 a month, CMDR Chadwick probably made all of $200 mo. in base pay if that - but in 1935, $200 was a lot more money than it is today.

 

[Frank Petronio]

Adams shot for colleges like Berkley and the Univ of Rochester through the early 60s, so it wasn't like he was rolling in it until the much later....

I have a poster of him shooting school children in rural New Mexico in the 70s but by then I think it was probono and hardly a private school.

 

[jan normandale]

Adams shot for colleges like Berkley and the Univ of Rochester through the early 60s, so it wasn't like he was rolling in it until the much later....

I have a poster of him shooting school children in rural New Mexico in the 70s but by then I think it was probono and hardly a private school.

I'd love to see that side of his work. I always see his landscape work and little else. Did any of that kind of portrait work ever get published?