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Ansel Adams' Moon And Half Dome - Term Papers

Ansel Adams' Moon And Half Dome

Ansel Adams is one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth-century. Moon and Half Dome is one of his many great works. Taken in 1960 in Yosemite National Park, California it is a very involving photograph. In Moon and Half Dome, Adams tries to induce a feeling of awe at nature's immense power and beauty in the viewer.
The detail of the photograph brings out all the beauty of nature at its best. Due to the way the shadows fall on Half Dome, all the crevices and ledges are well defined, causing a very intricate, but chaotic, pattern of lines which can be seen as beautiful in their own way. The sharp detail of Half Dome also makes it look real, which allows the viewer to believe the ...

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size of the moon in relation to the rock. Although it is actually small in the Earth's sky, the moon always has the influence of being great, and anything that dwarfs it can become ominous. The black and white of the photograph also assists in giving the viewer the impression that Half Dome is enormous. The darkness of the sky draws the eye to it because among the vast blackness the moon is oddly white and somewhat blurred in comparison to the detail of the rest of the photograph. A blurred object among a large area of clarity gives the impression of depth. The shadows created by Half Dome also further the feeling of Half Domes dominating presence by producing a pathway of light towards the middle bottom of the photograph, which, in conjunction with the effect of the eye being drawn to the top of the photograph, produce the feeling of being pushed forward and downward while the eye is being pushed up ending ground into the base of Half Dome, staring straight up, and frozen with fear ...

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Added: 6/8/2004 04:50:57 AM
Category: Arts
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