{"id":19546,"date":"2011-04-01T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=19546"},"modified":"2022-06-29T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:12:28","slug":"photographer-ansel-adams-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/culture\/photographer-ansel-adams-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Ansel Adams’s Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He was the father of Landscape photography – an artist whose musicianship almost matched his artistry with the camera. He is one of the founding fathers of a fundamentally American view of the world; But Ansel Adams also loved his cars.<\/p>\n

And there’s no contradiction nestling at the heart of this. Like many of us who love the hills, the rivers and the oceans: the aristocratic San Franciscan artist needed a sturdy vehicle to commune with his muse.<\/p>\n

Adams spent decades exploring the great outdoors of America. He hiking, explored and documented the beauty of places like Yosemite<\/a> and Yellowstone<\/a>; from the soaring walls of El Capitan to the burbling miasma of Old Faithful – but as well as getting out there and getting amongst it, the gentle, bearded totem who created a whole art form used a series of usually large, often spectacular vehicles as platforms to steady his weighty equipment.<\/p>\n

From cavernous De Soto limousines to hokey Ford Woodies and latterly Chevy wagons that would now be called SUVs- he always used the sturdy steel of Detroit-wrought Americana to create his art.<\/p>\n

A beautifully produced little film (below) details his inspiration, kit and caboodle…<\/p>\n