Ansel Adams Photography Art Research

The phenomenon of treason in pictorial photography represented by Adams symbolized the transformation from the state of motley workmanship with less personality to the consciousness of purity, profession and artistic quality of noumenal language. Adams’transformation from pictorial photography to pure photography was a qualitative leap of his artistic outlook in photography, as well as a symbol of becoming a photographic artist. The ultimate resulting effects of the pictures weaken the depths of visualized space brought about by changes of the depths of the field by using the so-called pure photography, even with "aperture64" technique. Same as the methods used in drawing space in contemporary drawing, this kind of transformation is not a reform from artistry to technique, but a successional progress from common pictorial style to modern style imbued with individuality. Kant believed that the concept of beauty didn’t concern desire or concept, was merely the existence of a kind of pure form. On the assumption that it is understood from this sense, the purer the forms of’pure photography’, the more perfect the art.’Adams’invention of the’Zone System’marked his second artistic progress. Many people regard the theory as merely an approach or technique, while neglecting its artistic connotation. Essentially, Ansel Adams’Zone System is a photographic sensitometry system for the purpose of exhibiting nature’correctly’ by adjusting the amount of light that fall on the film. Inspiration originating from visualization-thinking in music and from digital logic possesses the implication of’exhibition’in contemporary art. It is an artistic form that has difference in connotation from’correct’exposure.The materialization of visual form by Adams’music structure and digital logic elucidates the concept that’number’is universe in ancient Greek aesthetics, and integrates digital component in musical scale as well. It gives us some edification about in the combination of envisioned thinking and logic thinking in the creation of photographic art.